Final Drive Question?

[CBSIMONSEZ]

then this will top off your gutter thoughts.

I was gonna suggest lube! Mw personally, i spit on mine to get the lil bastard in cause i didnt want to walk to the basement for lube.

[fdjkas]

This bike has a "floating final drive" as you will notice when you put the axle back in and it may not appear lined up at first.

[darkh8artedsoul]

Hi guys. First off i dont have a fury, Im from V4musclebike.com. my question is does anyone know if the rear wheel drive spline on the fury is the same as the rear wheel drive spline on an 84 vf700 magna? i do know the magna drive spline has six posts that mate to the wheel itself. but i havent been able to find specs on either spline or even a picture of the fury drive spline. reason im asking is i like the look of a wide rear tire( wider than stock) and if the drive spline from the fury is the same as my magna's, then all i have to do is get the rear wheel and mod the swing arm to fit the tire. any ideas guys?

[Señor Gar]

DarkSoul, you can save yourself a bit of head scratching if you just compare your hub to a stock Fury on the showroom floor. Measure the width of both rotating hub assemblys from the edge of the dust ring to the center line of the wheel (where the spokes are). They must be the same or your bike would be pooched 'cause it would dog-track with the wheel off the center-line of the chassis. Even though you can "mod" your swingarm, the drive-shaft and final drive are not 'adjustable' on the lateral plane. If your measurements are the same then we can look into matching splines .

Another point of concern is the distance between the widest part of your 130/90-16 tire and the actual rotating driveshaft. You would need about 1½" of daylight in there to fit the 200 mm Dunlop with about ¼" of clearance. One bit of good news I see is that they are the same diameter.

If you have the clearances and the $ a more straightforward option would be to send your 16x3" wheel to Kosman to be widened to 5½" rim and then mount a 200/60R16 tire which is about the same as your stock 26" tire diameter. Would save a lot of engineering headaches. If you don't have the clearances go for a 180/70R16 on a 5" wide rim.

[darkh8artedsoul]

thanks for that, it helped alot. and in concer to the angles on the shaft, ive also recently found a modified goldwing with a 300 rear tire. the swing are and shaft were custom made using suburu joints for the shaft. albeit im not engineer like the builder of the wing was, but i do have mechanical kno how and im decent at fabrication. another option i was looking at would be to just replace the entire rear assemby from my bike with the assembly from the rear of the fury. as long as the distance between the frame was the same, or close and the splines on the shaft coming out of the motor matched up, it seems that would be a better option, seeing as how that arm is alrdy built for that tire and breaking set up

[Señor Gar]

If by "joints" you mean universal joints or constant velocity joints, the Fury only uses one at the transmission so there is no lateral flexibility without steering your rear wheel . You need to do the measurements I recommended to see if you can proceed.

[darkh8artedsoul]

Thanks again senor. once i tear into the heads on my engine and see if the cams are still at the point of saving with an oil mod( V4's had oiling problems to the head's) i will proceed with the measurements to see if it is even possible. if it ends up being something that can be done, i will post pics on here and on my page at the V4muscle site. Thanks again