Hub Odometer Fits ATV

Hub Odometer Fits ATV ATV'S ATV'S 28-2-20 Don't have an odometer on your ATV? Mathew Hempel found a simple way to add one by simply bolting one onto the wheel hub of his Honda Rancher 350 cc ATV. "I pulled it off a semi," he explains. "Truckers have to have them on the axle of their trucks, so police can check actual miles the rear axle has turned." On the semi tractor, the odometer is attached to two axle hub bolts and mounted over the bearing cap. Hempel found that the spacers that allowed the odometer to be attached to the tractor hub also fit two lug bolts on the deep hub wheel of the Honda. "For it to work without modifications, you have to have an ATV wheel with a deep hub like the Honda does," he explains. Once attached to the ATV wheel, the center of the hub odometer floats. As the wheel rotates, it ticks off revolutions. Each odometer is specific to a certain circumference tire and indicates how many revolutions to a mile. "The actual circumference of the Honda wheel is about half that of the semi tractor wheel the odometer was designed for," explains Hempel. "We just take the miles indicated and divide by two." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mathew Hempel, RR 1, Box 52, Semper Fidelis Ranch, Eldridge, Mo. 65463 (ph 573 363-5213).

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