8'' Wheels/Axle Problem

This might sound insulting... Please bear with me, I've actually seen people install these things wrong. Is the TracksUSA 136" kit made for stock size wheels?? Or are they made for 8" wheels already??

If your on the left side of the sled, looking at the rear end, and the axle is installed, it is basically a rectangular block, and the axle that you put the wheel on is a circle. The circle in relation to the rectangle should be in the upper left hand corner. If you are on the right side of the sled, the circle is obviously in the upper right hand corner.

You can turn the axle around of course, but it requires a longer track.

Either way, just make sure the actual axle part that you bolt the wheel to is higher than the stock tensioner window.

I have seen cases severe enough to warrant cutting the back of the rail off. This sounds crazy, but once you actually tighten down the axle, it makes the back of the rail really solid again.

Anyhow, just make sure your axle is up and forward. And if the track still hits the back corner of your rails after you've tensioned the track out, your only real option is to start taking away at the back of the rail.

Bottom of wheels should be flush with bottom of slides. Pull out your skid to make it easier to install properly.

What's the stock wheel size from the 2004 skid?? I think Polaris went to a slightly bigger wheel in the rear that year. The axle may have been made for previous sized wheels.

Regardless it shouldn't be that far off. But it makes a difference.

If you have the offset UP and FORWARD and the wheels are too high so that they don't touch the track, then you also may have possibly gotten an axle for the 9" wheels.

Now if you have the kit installed and all seems right, except that your track clips are rubbing the bottom back corner of your rail ends, and the track is tensioned to where you want it, then your gonna have to either grind the bottom back corner for clearance, or knock a little bit of the block that is part of the axle kit that slides inside the track tensioner rail windows. I've done this before.

Here's a little secret about that product and other products made by that company. NOT ONE SINGLE THING THEY MADE WAS PREVIOUSLY TESTED.

Just a buncha ideas on stuff to make that looked cool cause it was CNC'd, and made in the middle of the summer then sold. The first axle kits made, that center section was a hollow tube that screwed into the two inside blocks, that tube basically failed and a guys entire axle split in half, not pretty spearing a track on the rear end. First Hyper-Lite clutches made had aluminum towers that snapped off. Replaced by steel ones that made the clutch the same weight as the clutch it completely copied, a Cat roller.

BTW, if you got 136" extensions, your real problems lies in the fact that with a 8" wheel, your sucking up all your track with a bigger radius, that's why the wheels are forward from stock, but then you get your problem, track clips rubbing in the rear..... Might wanna consider stock.

Kinda hypocritical of me, seein' as I run a 9" offset wheel kit. But that's a 136" skid, set back, w/ 144" track.

Where do you live BigDog? If it is at all possible, take a pic.

Heck, even if ya have a camera phone, take a pic, and send it that way if ya can't post one here.

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Looks like you need 9" wheels or so as the offset axles were definitely made for bigger.

Yeah, you got a 9" axle w/ 8" wheels.

Friendly advice would be sell em, seperate obviously.

Then go stock.

I think you should sell those 8's to me and get yourself some 9's.

do you mind me asking where you bought them and the axle?