Hey this is for all you atv owners or mechanics, I am utilizing the full effect of "general topic" here. Buddie of mine has a twin peaks suzuki 700. Now I think its same as kfx700, brute force 650, prarie 700 and something else.

Okay he bent then snaped his axle, got one on order and were gonna try to install it together next weekend. I am searching the net unreponsively in reguards to a downloadable manual or a write up on axle swap.

It is a straight axle machine so I know its going to be no walk in the park, but I think two able minded dudes can get it done. So if any of you guys have done it, or might know a site I have over looked please leave me some links. Thanks in advance!

 

take pics as you take it apart and try your best to reverse what you did. straight axle swap shouldnt be horrible.. did mine recently but on a sport quad....is the axle an aftermarket or stock replacement? best thing to do would be to go to a shop and ask the mechanics what they tend to encounter when puttin in new axles.

 

I already called the only local shop still open, he said he wasn't going to give advice because he wouldn't be held liable for it. They are jerks anyway sold my buddy a KTM 525 4 years ago without installing a filter in it. I guess we should have checked it but hell wouldn't that have been something you wouldn't have missed?

Anyways cleaned the bike up that evening took the seat off and yep looked like red clay had been poured directly into the airbox. You would see it all into the carb caked to everything, my buddy actually was sick on his stomach just dropping $8500 for it. Had to get a lawyer to get a new bike.

Anyways back on track lol sorry bout that, it was a cool story now that everything is over. He is just getting a stock replacement, dummy trys to ride and jump it like its a 450x or something. It just don't work like that without some money dumped into a utility, so he snaped the axle. I was hoping to find a nice write up on one, gonna keep digging tho appricate the help!

 

are you replacing the axle shaft itself or the entire assembly? (diff, housing, etc)

i know theres a sight for honda that has complete exploded diagrams of each separate part and how it fits to where it goes. might try searching for something like that.

http://216.37.204.206/alljet/Suzuki_...=13&A=146&B=20

hows this do ya for?

 

Bro, seriously thanks for that link!

u da man!

 

glad i could be of service

 

Welp, did the axle swap this morning. Things went extremely well I was only able to gather the info you left me, the pictures.

We pretty much glanced over them all night at work, and then started breakin bolts at 715am. The only hard part was getting this dang big nut off the axle which held one of th e bearings on. That took like 20 mins we just didn't have anything to keep the axle from spining but we got it.

If I were to start at 5pm today with the same thing I would have it swapped by 6pm.
Thanks again friend.

 

good deal.

was it the hub nut that gave you trouble? either way, if you have access to an impact gun it makes those types of things a cakewalk.

so you pulled just the axle shafts? i didnt even know you could get just that for a 4 wheeler.

 

It was a straight axle, gear driven deal. We had access to impact and surely made it SO nice. The hard part was when we got everything unbuttoned and tapped the axle out of the housing.

"looking from back of atv" the right side had the drive on it, the left was just a free floating like bearing setup. The left's bearing was not really but kinda pressed on, but not with machine just 30 mins of consectutive taping on her. There was a nut directly behind the bearing keeping it in place. That nut was probley 3in and was finely threaded, shew it took forever man we broke a clamp in the meantime lol. Once that *** was off man she went together within minutes.

It was a cakewalk man, my friend whos quad it was he had to get that same bearing replaced a few years ago and didn't feel like breaking it down. He paided 350$ to get it replaced. The entire time we was doing the swap he was cusing.