I don't know if this has been discussed or not, but does anybody know if the 01 - 17 rear wheel can be replaced with an 18+ rear wheel. I guess I could look up the specs, but you guys always give more details than just numbers.
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Re: rear wheel
Nopetoanogreen wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 8:13 am I don't know if this has been discussed or not, but does anybody know if the 01 - 17 rear wheel can be replaced with an 18+ rear wheel. I guess I could look up the specs, but you guys always give more details than just numbers.
Thanks
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Re: rear wheel
Not without extensive modification.
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Re: rear wheel
I just read on another site that a guy put an 18 on his 06 and it will bolt up. However you need longer wheel studs and should machine 10 mm off the back of the hub because of the offset of the 18s swingarm. But it can be done relatively simple if you have the right tools.
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Re: rear wheel
Presume that the OP doesn't have a mill (to take that 10mm off the '18+ wheel) or would NOT like to go thru the heartburn of replacing wheel studs on a perfectly good final drive assembly. We all know how twitchy those things are as they come from the factory.keithg64 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:52 am I just read on another site that a guy put an 18 on his 06 and it will bolt up. However you need longer wheel studs and should machine 10 mm off the back of the hub because of the offset of the 18s swingarm. But it can be done relatively simple if you have the right tools.
"not without extensive modifications" was given as an answer because of the presumptions made above.
My suspicion is that Honda intentionally made those design changes to make this not a "plug & play" solution.
Yes, it could be done, but should it be done is another matter.