I think that might be the same quad Powdergirl had at the campout and it did very good in the water and come to think of it I think it was only 2 wheel drive.
.. Light weight 4x4 250 trail boss with high & low trany makes for a very nimble bike. They work very well with fair bit of jam for only a 250. The older Polaris bikes do have a fair bit of service involved.
OK Machine I think you got the diesese,pretty soon your wife will want to string Ron up and you will go through withdraw and we will have to send you to our own Dr. Ric to discuss your new addiction.He will assure you that if it dosnt have anything to do with snow and mud your headache will never go away so jump on your quad right now and go for a rip down the alley and you will sleep good tonight.As for tomorroo,One Day At A Time My Friend!
catmando!
I had the exact quad... Lots of power and reasonably light. I owned it for 5 years and the only big problems I had were: the contact discs in the front hubs wore quickly and you lost 4x4, you had to stay on top of adjusting the chains as I found mine would skip a cog or two on the sproket when you poured on the power... other than that it was great.
I have a 400 2 stroke Xplorer. Light and goes good, make sure you clean the mud out of the rad though, or you'll blow the motor (waiting for mine to be rebuilt, overheated and kapow!) It'll go faster when it's done though (ye-haw)!
My first quad was a 1990 Polaris 250 Trail Boss 4x4 2-stroke. It served me well until I sold it to buy my '02 Sportsman 500 HO. It packed out several nice bucks and a couple of young bull elk. Elk had to be cut in half front/rear,but it hauled them. Other than regular maintainence,I had to replace a broken motor mount from plowing snow into a solid bank and getting stopped rather suddenly.... Do the usual checks from time to time and you should enjoy it.:d