Hi there! Glad you enjoyed it! We did take out the drive shafts, weighed them, and found that removing them would not be enough to get under the magical 1000 pound mark. The plan was to remove both fronts, the front diff, and one rear axle. However... if you take out the axles, you can't attach the wheel hubs! If we had broken axles laying around we could have installed just the outer part, but we didn't have any handy, which is why we weighed them and found that it wouldn't have helped anyway. Heartbreaking. haha Thanks again for watching and for your comment!
@@3DayWeekend i completely forgot about the hubs having to have the axle. But oh well. At least you tried lol. Also, really appreciate that video you did on the rzr 800 throttle cable. It was a breeze after watching the vid!🤙
Yes it was! We have considered that route, however, some friends in our riding group have done the street legal route through the Montana loophole, were pulled over constantly, and in some cases, were still issued citations. Seems that route is not a viable option to us here, at least with our local law enforcement. Fortunately we're only 20 minutes north of the PA border, so PA DNCR for the win! Thank you so much for watching and for your comment!
I also live in Upstate NY,& I want to get my 2007 Yamaha Rhino 450 registered.Dry weight, according to specs,is 1,031 pounds.2 questions for you;what to take off to get it under 1,000 pounds?,where can I take it to get weighed?I'm 45 minutes West of Albany,if that's any help.For starter's,I thought about taking off the roof,doors,half windshield,& maybe the front bumper.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hi there! If you're 31 pounds over on your dry weight, that means you'll need to remove at least 31 pounds of weight as it rolled off the factory floor. It also means that was the weight before adding oil, coolant, and gas. Figure about 40 pounds to be safe. Unless it came with a roof, doors, bumper, and windshield from the factory, removing those items will just get you back down closer to the dry weight. It'll take another 40 pounds from there. You'll likely need to get pretty serious about the weight reduction techniques - roll cage, seats, skid plate, body panels... Anything else that is non-essential. The 4-scale method worked pretty well for us and was pretty darn close to the final weight. I'd use that to see if you're getting close. For weighing, fun fact, CAT scales won't weight anything under 2,000 pounds, according to the weighmaster we spoke to that night. We got our weight by driving the truck and trailer on the scales, got the weight, then took the sxs off the trailer and reweighed the truck trailer again. Quick subtraction and we had the sxs weight. This wouldn't work for the DMV though - they need a weight slip with that VIN on it and the total weight. If we were under the weight, we'd have to get a slip somewhere else. Local to here, we have a gravel pit, a metal recycling facility, garbage transfer station, and vehicle recycling facility all with scales that would provide us with a weight slip for a small fee. I would look some of those types of places up local to you, give them a call, and see if they would be willing to weigh your machine. For all that time, effort, energy, and money... it would probably be easier and cheaper to register it through PA. You can do it through the mail. Be prepared to pay sales tax, unless you bought your machine from a dealer and have proof that you already did. PA's registration information can be found here: www.snowatvreg.dcnr.pa.gov/Home/snowregos Bonus - PA registrations need to be renewed once every 2 years rather than NY registrations which are every year. Hope that helps and answers your questions!
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Why didn’t you take out front drive shafts? I would have done that but awesome content 👍🏻🤘🏼
The front diff as well. Exhaust too. And all the axle’s except one rear one.
Hi there! Glad you enjoyed it! We did take out the drive shafts, weighed them, and found that removing them would not be enough to get under the magical 1000 pound mark. The plan was to remove both fronts, the front diff, and one rear axle. However... if you take out the axles, you can't attach the wheel hubs! If we had broken axles laying around we could have installed just the outer part, but we didn't have any handy, which is why we weighed them and found that it wouldn't have helped anyway. Heartbreaking. haha Thanks again for watching and for your comment!
@@3DayWeekend i completely forgot about the hubs having to have the axle. But oh well. At least you tried lol. Also, really appreciate that video you did on the rzr 800 throttle cable. It was a breeze after watching the vid!🤙
WOW, That's a lot of work. Have you considered the Street Legal route? I always did the PA DNCR for my ATV's and SXS.
Yes it was! We have considered that route, however, some friends in our riding group have done the street legal route through the Montana loophole, were pulled over constantly, and in some cases, were still issued citations. Seems that route is not a viable option to us here, at least with our local law enforcement. Fortunately we're only 20 minutes north of the PA border, so PA DNCR for the win! Thank you so much for watching and for your comment!
I also live in Upstate NY,& I want to get my 2007 Yamaha Rhino 450 registered.Dry weight, according to specs,is 1,031 pounds.2 questions for you;what to take off to get it under 1,000 pounds?,where can I take it to get weighed?I'm 45 minutes West of Albany,if that's any help.For starter's,I thought about taking off the roof,doors,half windshield,& maybe the front bumper.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hi there! If you're 31 pounds over on your dry weight, that means you'll need to remove at least 31 pounds of weight as it rolled off the factory floor. It also means that was the weight before adding oil, coolant, and gas. Figure about 40 pounds to be safe. Unless it came with a roof, doors, bumper, and windshield from the factory, removing those items will just get you back down closer to the dry weight. It'll take another 40 pounds from there.
You'll likely need to get pretty serious about the weight reduction techniques - roll cage, seats, skid plate, body panels... Anything else that is non-essential. The 4-scale method worked pretty well for us and was pretty darn close to the final weight. I'd use that to see if you're getting close.
For weighing, fun fact, CAT scales won't weight anything under 2,000 pounds, according to the weighmaster we spoke to that night. We got our weight by driving the truck and trailer on the scales, got the weight, then took the sxs off the trailer and reweighed the truck trailer again. Quick subtraction and we had the sxs weight. This wouldn't work for the DMV though - they need a weight slip with that VIN on it and the total weight. If we were under the weight, we'd have to get a slip somewhere else.
Local to here, we have a gravel pit, a metal recycling facility, garbage transfer station, and vehicle recycling facility all with scales that would provide us with a weight slip for a small fee. I would look some of those types of places up local to you, give them a call, and see if they would be willing to weigh your machine.
For all that time, effort, energy, and money... it would probably be easier and cheaper to register it through PA. You can do it through the mail. Be prepared to pay sales tax, unless you bought your machine from a dealer and have proof that you already did. PA's registration information can be found here: www.snowatvreg.dcnr.pa.gov/Home/snowregos
Bonus - PA registrations need to be renewed once every 2 years rather than NY registrations which are every year.
Hope that helps and answers your questions!
Thanks for all the information,I'll start looking into it.I'm not close to Pennsylvania,so that may not be an option.