1995 arctic cat 550 grinding noise

[09 arctic cat m8]

Hey guys well I got an older 550 cat and it's making a grinding noise underneath the tunnel, lots have said ice but I can pull it out of the shed and from summer and it does it, someone said the bearings so I did it today and one on the bogey wheel was pooched so I got new ones I did both the drive shaft bearings too and still makes this noise undernieth it, what else guys!??

 

[mtncat1]

the drive shaft bearing on the speedo side is probably bad . it is very common .

 

[TROLLCAT]

bearing behind secondary clutch on jackshaft check that to

 

[09 arctic cat m8]

i did both bearings yesterday in the drive shaft clutch side and chaincase still no difference

 

[CatMan16]

Can you hear the grinding if you lift the track and roll it around by hand?


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[09 arctic cat m8]

not when you free spin it holding it up only riding it

 

[CatMan16]

Any bent track clips?


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[09 arctic cat m8]

Not that I'm aware of

 

[TROLLCAT]

bearing behind secondary clutch on jackshaft check that to

did you check pull secondary clutch off I have replaced these bearings on jack shaft

 

[09 arctic cat m8]

No I didn't do that one, what do you think about sliders or track clips!? Something is causing this that's for sure

 

[pano-dude]

keep replacing parts until it's fixed, why only replace one or two bearings in a machine of that age? in my experience it's never the easy to get at parts that are the issue....
sounds like you did the easy bearings in chain case which are always in oil and usually not an issue. Need to pull driveshaft and jack shaft out and replace the clutch side bearings.

 

[09 arctic cat m8]

i did both sides clutch side and chaincase bearings