Front end swap

[johndeerered]

I have a 720 tricycle front and a friend with a 630 wide front. I would like to swap to the wide front and was trying to find out if they will swap without major problems, Amy info is appreciated.

 

[Merton]

Yes -Factory Axle will interchange.

 

[susandiane]

Watch out for something. With the narrow front end you have 4 bolts doing the turning and twisting to steer. With the wide front end only two connect to the tie rods to do the same thing. Once upon a time one of the two working bolts worked loose and sheared off disking stubble in an airless riverbend. Drilling that thing out with a breast drill in a half curled position just wasn't fun. Use a high grade bolt and torque it to the specs for the bolt. Use some loctite and check them for tightness every twenty four hours of runtime. That may seem a waste of time, but it's cheap insurance. Trust me on that.

 

[PJH]

Going from memory, I ''think'' that those bolt lengths are different in the parts book too.