Author: Forum News

Hi there fellow Can-Am'ers,

My father is about to ditch his old Polaris 6x6 after riding mine :-) and can buy a friend of our's 2016 Outlander 650 6x6 with A LOT of miles(16.000km or so) on it. This is no problem as I know these machines can handle miles just fine. Our friend does not take good care of his rides and he know it so my father will get it very cheap.
I've ridden it a few times and it seems to be just fine beside some minor cosmetic stuff, no big deal, but this last weekend me and our friend with his 6x6 took a ride into the backcountry just for fun(and the weather was real nice for once) and in a steep technical climb I could hear the famous visco-lok slipping noise so I guess the visco-lok need some attention sooner or later. The load on the front tires was not that great being a steep climb.
My father is no bad ass offroader(he just want DPS and better brakes to be honest) so I doubt he will ever experience any Visco-lok slippage but I like stuff to be working right so what are our options here?
a) Buy a new differential unit(705401506)
or
b) Buy a Torq-locker

About the Torq-locker...Will it make that ratcheting sound whenever I take a turn in 4x6 mode?

Ok, what was Can Am thinking with the box they put around the carb?
Picked up a 2015 DS90 for my boys that has sat for most of the past year, so naturally the carb needs to be cleaned. Problem is i can’t get to the dern thing. Not to mention the front plastics don’t come off with out taking off the handlebars.
If / when i get the carb out, that little bos is going in the recycle bin.

New guy checking in from Colorado Springs.
Picked up a 2015 Ca Am DS 90 for my kids the other day.
Just here to see what other DS90 owners have learned.

Recently bought a 2013, even though it had low km and winch was almost never used, the grease had dried pretty bad and the freespool/engage switch was behaving really bad, and it was very hard to freespool.

I removed the winch and disassembled the gearbox. Grease was all dried up with chunks.
Mineral spirits bath with a toothbrush, air dry and re-grease, now freespools really easy and toggle works #1.
Also a good time to fix the warn issue with the toggle where the metal part jams the plastic and you cant put it back to motor after freespool....
Just file at an angle the plastic edge where the metal part catches. Now it just rides the ramp and goes back on. Takes 1 minute with a small file on each side.



Should work like new. Motor is supposed to be sealed and is pretty new so I just decided not to disassemble it...

What is that purple connector behind the fuse box in the gauge cluster?

And wtf ate my wires? mouse or something? I'm lucky that only the rubber was eaten and not the actual wire.

So looking to raise my snorkel on my XMR. I can not seem to find anything that says how tall the snorkels sit. The Traditional kit looks like it would be no problem, but the SYA kit looks like it would completely obstruct your view if sitting. Anyone have these and maybe could get a picture of the sitting on their quad? Want to see how tall they actually are.


On another note, if anyone has any better kit to recommend than Snorkel Your Atv, please share them.
Thanks!


SYA Warrior kit
https://www.snorkelyouratv.com/can-am-snorkel-kits


Traditional kit
https://www.snorkelyouratv.com/produ...0-800-850-1000

I’m trying to help my neighbor get his rear axle out of the trans. Right now I have a bearing splitter clamp down on the outside of the joint with a 4 lbs slide hammer bolted to it and this thing has not budged. We were taking turns for probably over an hour today With that set up with no results. I was going to try and heat it but I’m not too sure if I could damage the trans what heat. I know I will ruin the seal but that’s no big deal. Is there any other ways of getting this out? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So a little back story is 5 months ago I locked up the transmission, got a new one in put everything back together put the battery on charge and now nothing is turning on even though I started it a month ago and everything seemed fine. I am getting power to the solenoid on the incoming post but not the outgoing. Doesn't click when I turn the key and yes I verified the kill switch is in the run position. Just don't know what could be the problem besides the solenoid but wouldn't think a bad solenoid would eliminate power to everything else. Any help is appreciated.

My 2010 550xp will not start once it gets hot. Bike will start great when it is cold (as it the engine hasn't ran in a while, or you can lay your hand on it). Once you run it for 20-30 minutes, it will just grunt when you hit the key. Took it back to dealer 5x, replaced battery several times, hooked jumper pack to it, and several other things. But nothing will help it, last thing the dealer did was they said the valves were out of adjustment bad, and it was ok for 30 or so miles, now back to the same thing. Its starting to aggravate me quite a bit now. Help would be great. Bike just acts like it is vapor locked after you get it good and hot.

2002 sportsman 500. I've been having issues with..i think battery drain. Ran it today at idle for about 30min. As soon as the fan kicked on it died. Had a hard time re-starting it. Started when the fan shut off. Battery is kept on tender. I had issues with it now for a while when using the plow, same thing, once the fan comes on it stalls.