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Has anyone ever had to change the u-joint off the gear box going to the rear diff? (in my case the middle diff). I had just pulled my trailer up Monument Mountain and went back down to pull my nephew’s trailer up when about half way up (in the steepest part) the u-joint had a catastrophic failure. My brother who has a 6x6 also, came back and helped me maneuver back down to a pullout on the trail. I tried for 4 hours to remove the drive shaft completely, but was unsuccessful, but I did manage to remove the front u-joint from the drive shaft via the slip splines. I tied the shaft to the frame so it could still spin but not flop around and cause damage. In the meantime my brother and his son & grandson took the trailers to the trail head, but just short of that he noticed some noise and upon inspection, the rear u-joint on the same shaft on his 6x6 was failing, he was able to limp in the rest of the way. He returned on an Artic Cat 500 and his grandson on an Artic Cat 650. We aborted the attempt at Monument and when down and back through Camron Pass, about a 5 hour tow through some nasty stuff, quite a bit of it was a double pull, but we finally made it.
Don’t know if there is any other damage, there was no oil leakage, and I did drain the gear box oil and it was clean. The problem I have was after the drive shaft was secured I put it in 6x6 and the front tires pulled me forward and in reverse, but when we started out, that quit working. There was a small clicking noise when being pulled.
Haven’t gotten into it any further yet, but what little research I’ve done it looks like I will have to pull the engine to do this job. If anybody had every done this before, any pointers would be welcome.
And yes I greased it prior to this trip.

Has anyone ever had to change the u-joint off the gear box going to the rear diff? (in my case the middle diff). I had just pulled my trailer up Monument Mountain and went back down to pull my nephew’s trailer up when about half way up (in the steepest part) the u-joint had a catastrophic failure. My brother who has a 6x6 also, came back and helped me maneuver back down to a pullout on the trail. I tried for 4 hours to remove the drive shaft completely, but was unsuccessful, but I did manage to remove the front u-joint from the drive shaft via the slip splines. I tied the shaft to the frame so it could still spin but not flop around and cause damage. In the meantime my brother and his son & grandson took the trailers to the trail head, but just short of that he noticed some noise and upon inspection, the rear u-joint on the same shaft on his 6x6 was failing, he was able to limp in the rest of the way. He returned on an Artic Cat 500 and his grandson on an Artic Cat 650. We aborted the attempt at Monument and when down and back through Camron Pass, about a 5 hour tow through some nasty stuff, quite a bit of it was a double pull, but we finally made it.
Don’t know if there is any other damage, there was no oil leakage, and I did drain the gear box oil and it was clean. The problem I have was after the drive shaft was secured I put it in 6x6 and the front tires pulled me forward and in reverse, but when we started out, that quit working. There was a small clicking noise when being pulled.
Haven’t gotten into it any further yet, but what little research I’ve done it looks like I will have to pull the engine to do this job. If anybody had every done this before, any pointers would be welcome.
And yes I greased it prior to this trip.

Can anyone confirm whether the brake pads for the 2018 XMR are the same as the 2018 limited max? I assume they are. Planning on grabbing a set from race driven but only see the XMR listed for 2018. Thanks.

Can anyone confirm whether the brake pads for the 2018 XMR are the same as the 2018 limited max? I assume they are. Planning on grabbing a set from race driven but only see the XMR listed for 2018. Thanks.

The other day both oil and temp lights started flashing while the speedometer display went blank. The oil has been change and last year I has the radiator flushed and have only driven the 4 wheeler about 10 miles since. Even when cold and turn the ignition on the lights flash. Battery cables are tight. Has anyone had this problem. Thanks

The other day my 400 started flashing both temp and oil lights and the speedo display went blank. My oil has been changed and is ok and I had the antifreeze flushed and replace last year and have only used the 4x4 just about 10 miles since. Has anyone had this problem and what should I check. Battery connections are all fine. These lights flash even when cold and just turning the ignition on. First post, so thanks in advance.

What oil should I use in my Predator 90 gear box? Thanks

Hi All,

My Nephew has a 2002 Sportsman 400 with the pushbutton on the speedometer (in MPH). When he pushes the yellow button to display miles, etc. he cannot figure out what the other numbers are displayed.
I have searched the web for him but no luck so I'm asking anyone who might know or have a page from a manual telling me what each push of the button is displaying.

Thank you all.

Axel

Hey all,

I have a 2008 outlander 500xt. Recently I experienced an issue where the engine light came on and it would not start. The welcome message had changed to “Hello Mr Smith” from what it had been programmed originally. With the gauge cluster unplugged, my quad was able to start, but eventually wouldn’t start at all. My dealer checked all wires(eventually replacing the whole wiring harness as a last ditch effort), we tried a different ecm and also tried another gauge. Nothing shows up in the codes, but after they flash it, it will run once again wth the cluster plugged in but eventually the same issue will come back.

Has anyone else experienced this in the past? If so, what fixed it?

Thanks

Hey all,

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and if so, what was the cause and solution.

I have a 2013 Outlander 1000xt. Overnight the odometer jumped from +-6500km to +-32000km. I parked it on my truck one day and when I started it the next, it had jumped for no reason. No work was done to the machine between days.

My dealer has never seen or heard of this, any help would be appreciated!

Thanks