STI Tire & Wheel became the first aftermarket company to bolt tire and wheel combos onto the Viking.
They mounted a set of 28-inch Roctane XD tires mounted on HD2 wheels (4/110 bolt pattern, 5+2 offset - same as the Yamaha Rhino). The lug nut studs are 12mm so we used STI Lug Nut Part # LUG8, which is a 12mm x 1.25 tapered lug nut. 28” Roctane tires can be used with no clearance issues.
Look how mean the new wheels make the Viking look compared to stock
Anyone here planning to do any wheel mods similar? Im not big on the chrome rims but I'll definitely in the market for bigger wheels.
betting those factory 25s are for cost saving, factory 28s would probably tack another grand or two onto the price. Viking would get creamed by pioneer if there was a 2-3k price gap between the two.
After doing a bunch of shopping and looking on line, I decided to go with the STI3 Black Machined wheel 14x7....Once I decided on that I talked to several places about the centers. Knowing they had to be taller from when I put my ITP's on I had to get taller center caps. Every place i called either didn't know about the taller center's (including RM-ATV) or the 2 that new about them said they had been backordered for two month's and didn't know when they would get them in. I finally thought I'll send an email to STI directly and see what the deal is on them getting them out to dealers. A nice young man named Shane answed my email immediatly and said "yeah Viking does take a higher center, I have some here. Give me your address I'll send some right out to you. Do you want Chrome or gloss Black?" I answered back with gloss black and my ship to info. He said he would get them right out to me. Didn't ask for payment or anything, and I hadn't even puchased the wheels yet. 3 days later I had them. I was super impressed with this service. I immediatly called rocky mountain (because they had them in stock) and orderd STI3 Wheels. So if your buying new wheels there are alot of companies that just dont know yet that the viking requires a deeper center cap. Very impressed with STI's service..
After doing a bunch of shopping and looking on line, I decided to go with the STI3 Black Machined wheel 14x7....Once I decided on that I talked to several places about the centers. Knowing they had to be taller from when I put my ITP's on I had to get taller center caps. Every place i called either didn't know about the taller center's (including RM-ATV) or the 2 that new about them said they had been backordered for two month's and didn't know when they would get them in. I finally thought I'll send an email to STI directly and see what the deal is on them getting them out to dealers. A nice young man named Shane answed my email immediatly and said "yeah Viking does take a higher center, I have some here. Give me your address I'll send some right out to you. Do you want Chrome or gloss Black?" I answered back with gloss black and my ship to info. He said he would get them right out to me. Didn't ask for payment or anything, and I hadn't even puchased the wheels yet. 3 days later I had them. I was super impressed with this service. I immediatly called rocky mountain (because they had them in stock) and orderd STI3 Wheels. So if your buying new wheels there are alot of companies that just dont know yet that the viking requires a deeper center cap. Very impressed with STI's service..
After doing a bunch of shopping and looking on line, I decided to go with the STI3 Black Machined wheel 14x7....Once I decided on that I talked to several places about the centers. Knowing they had to be taller from when I put my ITP's on I had to get taller center caps. Every place i called either didn't know about the taller center's (including RM-ATV) or the 2 that new about them said they had been backordered for two month's and didn't know when they would get them in. I finally thought I'll send an email to STI directly and see what the deal is on them getting them out to dealers. A nice young man named Shane answed my email immediatly and said "yeah Viking does take a higher center, I have some here. Give me your address I'll send some right out to you. Do you want Chrome or gloss Black?" I answered back with gloss black and my ship to info. He said he would get them right out to me. Didn't ask for payment or anything, and I hadn't even puchased the wheels yet. 3 days later I had them. I was super impressed with this service. I immediatly called rocky mountain (because they had them in stock) and orderd STI3 Wheels. So if your buying new wheels there are alot of companies that just dont know yet that the viking requires a deeper center cap. Very impressed with STI's service..
I actually have STI caps on 12" ITP SS212 wheels. Some of the ITP wheels and caps work, and some don't. I like the look better than if the ITP caps would have worked
ITP is in the process now of updating all of their caps.
Yeah those are the wheels look good. What tire pressure's you running in your tires. I got the same red machine that gives me a good Idea what mine will look like...
These Motomax have been some tough tires and still have fair tread and pull really good in everything I've went through.
But they are old and looking bad, getting out of round and cracking now.
27x10x14 on front and 12'' wide on the rear.
I am thinking about trying some 27x11x14 Interco Sniper...
just bought a 2019 viking vi eps ranch edition from the dealer. they installed a 2" high lifter kift kit and added moto mtc 32 x 10-18. it rubbing like crazy taking it back tomorrow. what do you guys recommend to fix it?
We just put a 2 inch lift on our 2018 viking and it made a huge difference. Tires are 25 right now I was wondering if it would be worth it to get 27 or 28s? We were told we can't put over a 28 in tire on it
I have a 2015 Viking, with EPS. The steering shaft that runs from the steering box upwards, to another splined shaft, keeps slipping down, thus not allowing it turn correctly. There is no “play” in the shaft length to allow it to slide up onto the spline. Anyone else experience this? Looking...
I did a search but didn't find anything....
Does anyone here run 9'' wide tires on all 4 corners? if so, any performance issues or anything? I was tossing around the idea of throwing a set of 28x10x12 Zillas on my VI (2'' lift) due to their light weight. Now I'm thinking about going to a...
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