Last fall/winter I did quite a bit of work to my 6x6, pulled all the wheel hubs to grease the wheel bearing, changed all the bushing on the A-arms, adjusted the valves, replaced the front diff, put new belt on and cleaned and greased the 1-way bearing, and put new tires (ITP 27” Mud Lite XTR’s). But the thing that I really was interested in was the attempt to reduce the leg heat that most everyone complains about. I pulled the pipes/muffler and using a rattle can ceramic primer and ceramic paint, I painted them and followed the instructions to a “T” (baking them a high temps before re-installing), and then I wrapped them for good measure.
I was laid up in Feb due to a back problem, and finally in Apr they operated on my back, so I was unable to do any riding to observe the results until last week.
The results were not especially exciting. While I thought that my leg wasn’t as hot as before (which may have been just wishful thinking on my part), when we had gone about 20 mile, my brother (who has the same atv) used a digital heat gauge and measured the temp’s on both our machines and the temp’s on my atv were actually higher than on his. I know that it would have been better if I had measured the temp’s on my own machine before and after, but we all know that hind sight is 20/20 right. Anyway, the uptake of this is that the rattle can ceramic paint and wrapping the pipe did not provide the desired effect. For what it is worth, I would not recommend either procedure, the results do not justify the effort.
I was laid up in Feb due to a back problem, and finally in Apr they operated on my back, so I was unable to do any riding to observe the results until last week.
The results were not especially exciting. While I thought that my leg wasn’t as hot as before (which may have been just wishful thinking on my part), when we had gone about 20 mile, my brother (who has the same atv) used a digital heat gauge and measured the temp’s on both our machines and the temp’s on my atv were actually higher than on his. I know that it would have been better if I had measured the temp’s on my own machine before and after, but we all know that hind sight is 20/20 right. Anyway, the uptake of this is that the rattle can ceramic paint and wrapping the pipe did not provide the desired effect. For what it is worth, I would not recommend either procedure, the results do not justify the effort.