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Offline lonewolf5348

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tires question on honda 2001 ES 450
« on: September 10, 2009, 01:56:24 PM »
I like to ask can you use 2 front tires from a different manufacture same size tire?
I blew a small hole in my front tire sidewall the rubber lifted from the belt about the size of a dime.I went over to the tire shop and he said a patch on the inside will not work,but he did state if I could glue the tare back down it may work 50/50 chance.or replace the tire with a inner tube.
I am running Dunlop 25x8x12  KT401on the front and dunlop 25x10x12 on the rear KT405
I like to purchase a set of Duro buffalo front tire  the same size as I have now thread design are close would I run into any problem having the front tires not the same as the rear tires,the atv is always in 4x4

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Re: tires question on honda 2001 ES 450
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2009, 10:42:54 AM »
I own an 02 Foreman and would suggest to glue it back down with Gorilla glue and get a can of the green slime sealer and try it. Cheaper to try that first anywho. As far as running a different make tire on the front than the rear or vise versa,should not matter at all as long as you are replacing the front tire/tires with the same size. And stay off of pavement because of it being all the time 4x4. Just my 2cents.
Do not use a tube in a quad tire....that tire man is phunny  ::)
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2009, 06:58:27 AM »
Last night I visited my favorite Game hunter transporter and one ther roustabouts was mounting a different set of rear tires on his Honda Recon 250.............the rear wheels he was mounting come from a Polaris 4x4
he stated he had to file the holes some to get it to fit.

The two other wierd ones I'd seen were a 1980's Suzuki 250R that had 6.50x10 mitchilin aircraft tires mounted on the front wheels.................winter no breaking action due to different type tread.

By farthest the most wierd,  was my cheapscate maintenance supervisor at work had a Honda 110 3- wheeler that had a slashed front tire sidewall (knife cuts on both sided) he stiched up the tire useing stainless aircraft safety wire and lined the tire with a silicone caulking and a old aircraft inertube and used a ATV tube inside that and drove it that way for over a year till the stiches pulled (tire was rotten) he drove that honda every day to work used Aeroshell 15w50 aircraft motor oil and 100LL av-gas, even when the temprature here in the NorthWest Arctic dropped as low as -47F that dident stop him, he'd dump a 5 gallon bucket of hot bathtub tap water on it and drive it to work, it was so narrow he could roll it inside the hanger at work through the parking lot door and it would sit in the corner the hanger where it was warm.
Not many ATV's today that fit through a 36" wide doorway!

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Re: tires question on honda 2001 ES 450
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2009, 04:06:10 AM »
A friend of mine had a old small Honda 3-wheeler with different tires on the rear.  It was a struggle to drive in a straight line, but it drug deer with the best of them.

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Re: tires question on honda 2001 ES 450
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2009, 08:16:30 AM »
Can you do it? Yes, but I would replace both front tires.
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Re: tires question on honda 2001 ES 450
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2009, 01:38:19 AM »
tires maked the same size from two differnt manufactures can vary quite a bit in diameter.
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