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I have a serious question I have heard some people say they use a drive belt for the maverick instead if the stock one when they replace it I do believe they are talking about the 1000 ATV my question is can you use a maverick belt on an 800 outlander xt? I recently purchased a gates g force beltand after a long weekend ride I found that some of the teeth on the top of the belt we're goudged does that have something to do with the size of the belt or a problem with my clutch? I know two questions in one

try to move my secondary clutch left or right and it clunks and only moves about an inch in each Direction is my clutch shot or is it further damage in the transmission

Is there something wrong with my brakes? They are absolutely horrible at braking.
I just can't brake fast, they cant lock the wheels.
Is that normal? Will just switching pads fix it?

Hey guy, I’m new here. I’m having an issue with my 96 magnum, it won’t spark and I’ve tried everything bag I know of. I’ll give a little background on what happened when it went out. I was going through something pretty deep and the rear end started floating and pushed the front end down pretty far into the water. Not far enough to get into the engine, but the clutch cover was full after that, and everything up front ignition wise went under I think, including the junction block for all of the connections. After being under like that for about a minute it died and wouldn’t restart. After sitting and drying out, it would fire just once. And it would repeat that single fire every few hours. That most it fired was about three seconds. I have replaced everything that I can think of. Coil, plug, CDI, regulator, and slotted the pick up holes and moved it closer to the flywheel. I have tried a new CDI and coil, and a known used one that is Polaris brand. I have tried unplugging the black wire of the CDI and checking the ETC switch in the throttle. Still no go. I do not have any specs to check the resistance on anything. If anyone had that I would greatly appreciate it. Or any ideas as to what it could be. Is there a fuse for the ignition system on this bike, or a breaker somewhere?

Please help with a timing question. When I get every thing timed and reassembled, when i rotate from TDC around to TDC the cams are not timed. I was thinking if you are setting TDC and you make two complete rotate everything should be timed.

Is this a true statement?
Why wouldn’t it still be in timed?

Any help would appreciated

Thanks Tim

I did some pretty rough driving today in hot weather, and at some point, in slow speed technical trails, it started smelling burnt rubber.
Is my belt slipping or something? how can I test/fix?

I have upgraded from the stock tires to 27 mega mayhems, maybe I need the clutch kit?

I did some pretty rough driving today in hot weather, and at some point, in slow speed technical trails, it started smelling burnt rubber.
Is my belt slipping or something? how can I test/fix?

I have upgraded from the stock tires to 27 mega mayhems, maybe I need the clutch kit?

Last Saturday I drove my 2015 RZR 900S to a friends place. Got there and shut it off, When I got ready to leave my power steering was not working. got home and started checking it out. What I found was there was no 12 volts to the 20 amo fuse in the fuse box, got behind the rzr were the wiring harness goes into the battery & fuse area under the drivers seat, The wire harness was riding against the frame and got into the wires and shorted it out. I was lucky my extended warranty covered it

A bit late on this write up. We hit up Hogs Canyon on my road trip in my. This area was essentially a starting point for a TON of trails in the area. But we didn't go to deep in as it was just my two machines, and me with one non-rider, and one novice rider.

Terrain was mainly sand & Slick rock. lots of fun technical parts and and a good Jeep rating scale on the trails. Most of the bad stuff had ways that you could get around if you weren't comfortable attempting them. We only encountered 1 section where even I puckered - but the Novice rider behind me didn't know better, and rolled the Hawkeye over on himself. Fouled plug, and a machine left in the wilderness over night because Utah closes on Sundays. I'd have had him winch over it as the Touring with it's longer wheel base had some difficulty getting over about a 18" step on a steep section of trail. But it all worked out at the end of the day.

Will definitely be making more trips to Utah to ride. It's great riding.

New member here. My introduction is in the new members forum. I recently purchased this 1995 Polaris Sportsman 400 4x4. Thais is my first atv and so far I am loving it. My questions are this: I have been looking at other pictures of sportsmans from the same era 1993-97 and all of them look the same (black rims, olive drab paint, black racks, etc) Do I have one with different options? Did someone put this one together using Xpolrer plastic? It has a Canadian leaf symbol by the headlight, is this machine from Canada? To me everything appears to be stock. I'm at a loss trying to find any info on my atv and would appreciate any help. I have attached the pictures the seller sent to me. Thanks

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