Another use for Snapper rear wheels!

turbofiat124

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Somewhat mower related.

So a co-worker gives me this Chinese made kid's 110cc ATV. It had a broken swing arm bolt and eventually one of the bushings in the swing arm busted. And the rear shock. So I fixed all of that. I replaced the $13 carburator that for some reason could not be cleaned out and repainted the body (paint flaking off) with white Rustoelum.

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My daughter is too young to ride it herself so she sits in front of me and I do the driving.

So we were riding around the field one day having a bit of fun when I ran over this tractor implement auger with weeds growed up around it. Initially nothing happened except for this scraping noise. Then when we got to the house, the rear axle broke.

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Looks as if the axle is in three pieces pressed together with two pins. I tried to weld it back together but it didn't hold.

So the next thought was to find a new axle. Despite that most of these bikes are clones from Japanese made bikes, because this thing was made in 2007, there were allot of design changes over the years. I couldn't find a 700mm long axle with a 25mm center housing section. I was going to have to replace the whole rear assembly just because of the axle size.

So this guy on forum sends me an axle assembly from a disabled ATV. For free! How nice is that? But it was not a direct fit. Some mods had to be done, mainly spacing out some bolts with flat washers and a little bit of grinding.

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So now the main problem. The hubs use a 3 (or 77mm) X 3 bolt pattern. The old wheels use a 4 bolt pattern. The hubs will not swap over because the splines on the replacement axle are a smaller diameter. Can't seem to find any smaller diameter hubs with a 4 bolt pattern.

HMMMM, what to do? Buy a set of new 3X3 wheels for $80? Wait! I just remembered I have two disabled Snappers and the rear wheels uses a 3 bolt pattern.

The Snapper wheels are more like 3.25" X 3 and the holes in the rims are 1/2".

So I drilled and taped the holes out in the hubs for 7/16"-14 bolts and managed to get them pretty much centered. Probably not good enough if this was for a car but good enough for a small ATV.

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So far so good! The tires are both 16" in diameter but the Snapper rims are 8" versus 7" and about 1/2" narrower. So it sort of looks like low profile tires on deep dished rims!

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BlazNT

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Good idea and work.
 

Roger B

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I'll second what Chuck said, Good Work!!

Roger B
 
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