• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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SM630 to TE630 wheels

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Just picked up a SM630 and looking to pick up a set of wheels for playing in the dirt.. what wheels will actually fit when i start looking for used wheels, 610,510....etc? I DO understand that the front disc will be a different size...and will have to come up with some sort of solution there but first things first...finds some wheels
:) Thanks in advance
Cheers
 
Depending on how hard you're planning on playing in the dirt, are you worried at all about scraping the fenders with the bigger wheels on the shorter stroke SM suspenders? :excuseme:

There are good 17" knobby tires alternatives :thinking:
 
How much shorter is the suspension? I have the bug for a TE630 but there's an SM630 by me. I'd rather have the TE, but it seems like they're getting hard to find. I don't mind doing the swap as long as I know what I'm getting into, and as long as it's worth it to do so. Are the wheels\brake rotor and suspension the only difference?
 
I always read that going TE->SM was easier than SM->TE, which is why I went the TE route.

I'll probably never get around to doing the SM conversion, though.
 
Honestly I'm more interested in the TE. Back to the OP question - is there a write up or a good thread regarding how to do this swap? Palmer, are you saying you just put 17" knobbies on?
 
pmpski_1 said:
Honestly I'm more interested in the TE. Back to the OP question - is there a write up or a good thread regarding how to do this swap? Palmer, are you saying you just put 17" knobbies on?
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Yes, woodschick runs knobbies on one set of 17's, I run street on one set and I purchased another set for knobbies, so I have 2 sets of 17" SM wheels I swap out. I also picked up rotors and a sprocket, expensive but very easy to change out.
 
Muddy Waters said:
Depending on how hard you're planning on playing in the dirt, are you worried at all about scraping the fenders with the bigger wheels on the shorter stroke SM suspenders? :excuseme:

There are good 17" knobby tires alternatives :thinking:
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I was thinking that a 21" front tire setup would be better than the 17" for the terrain I was planning on riding on.. Thanks for the feeback
 
With the 21" up front you do have to worry about the two inches (depending on 21" tire hight) of usable travel you will loose.
 
PALMER84ONE said:
With the 21" up front you do have to worry about the two inches (depending on 21" tire hight) of usable travel you will loose.
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OOHHH I Get it... so my question is this... are the forks 2" shorter than the TE or are there spacers to drop the front 2"?
 
The valving is different (stiffer in the SM) in the front forks..unless you plan on changing (relaxing) that for the SM forks your offroad ability will be limited.
 
I believe the forks are shorter period, as in not a spacer internal. I am not sure about the TE/SM630 but my TE450 forks are longer than my SM610 forks both 50mm 2008. On the 610's the change is on the front, the swing arm length is the same and I believe the rear shock is shorter. On the SM/TE 450 and 510 forks and swing arms are different but this is the 610/630 thread so you didn't need to know that. :D

And Fast1 is right, valving is different as well.
 
All I know is that both the front and rear suspension have different part numbers in the parts catalog for SM vs TE. What the exact differences are, I don't know.
 
I may wait for a TE to be available. There's a low mileage SM by me for a decent price, but I'm really more interested in off road than on.
 
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