I tried from Thursday to Saturday to break my stock axles on purpose on my 2011 Polaris 850 XP with 70HP because I had my Rhino axles to install this afternoon and that went really well. I have the 3 inch lift with 30 inch Zilla tires and I beat my quad to death on very sh&y trails with 200 pounds on the front rack and over 200 pounds on the back racks and a 120 pound passenger. Do not worry about the trails, being clean, I always clean up the garbage and only Polaris's can make it on the trails I ride on. Hence, the garbage never makes it anywhere.My quad with me and a passenger all my gear 2 coolers, chainsaws, tent, bags of sh^t and caked on mud in the frame everywhere must have weighed about 1400lbs and it still shed through mud that without that extra clearance surely would have hung up and these tires shed that sh%t well. You could here the 850 motor just working to a point of failure and then it would spit chunks of mud out and I just kept moving forward, all on stock axles. The trails I ride on are ridiculous even with 17 inches of clearance you have to muscle your way through, hit thick mud and had it pinned several times 2 up, got to the logging road and that was a joy. The first day was 4hours of non stop riding, I hauled a trailer into my camp that weighed about 1200lbs and I dragged trees out of the bush on Saturday and at times got hung up where the motor was just chugging the tires to dig in the ground but I could not break anything, I was hoping to snap the stock axle to prove I needed to replace it with the rhino axles but it never happened, I changed them out for the rhino's anyway as I plan to put 32 Terminator tires on. Still have not broken anything on this 2011 XP, not even the slightest of problems, nothing. Had it up to the seat in loon sh%t as well, full of mud and into sand dunes and gravel, just hose it off and go again.
Thanks for recommending the 30 inch Zilla's they are indestructible, I think I want to go bigger, after this week I know now with the Rhino axles that this quad can handle 32's. The Rhino's have a much greater shaft diameter and the yokes look to be much larger with the bigger casings so I have a lot of confidence in them, going to go for the 32's, probably Terminators. My only complaint with the Zilla's is after coming out of the mud and onto the logging roads where there is gravel is that the stones and mud pack into the holes that are in the big lugs and at higher speeds they come flying out and into the fenders and at slow speeds on hard surfaces they will vibrate the steering due to the sharp front edge on the lugs, so I believe. However, Maxxis has a new trail tire called the Vipr with closed lugs and they are grounded down on the front edge on the lugs, but I will call to see if I can get a 32 or just go with the Terminators.
ah ray stfu. don't you have work ta do. hehe
I missed you today Larry. Thanks for the great time camping. Ya ya I off for 5 days now
I missed you today Larry. Thanks for the great time camping. Ya ya I off for 5 days now
Well maybe I have won the pool as to when you break it. Ok what did you do to it?????
man that's a lot of engineering.....why not just pull half your line out and wrap it around your bumper? works for me....I just carry a few slings and a 50' chunk of cable with loop ends in case more is needed and you can't get to the freespool knob.
You guys had a pool eh, go figure, well I'm a humble guy so I can take what's coming. So far like I said no problems except this one. If it happens again, then i'll have issues with Polaris. The part that broke looks pretty cheap, heard rumours that parts for the 2011 were made with cheap metals from china and it looks that way here. The front differential has a plate that holds the drive shaft that runs to the rear of the bike and that plate blew off, I'll send the pics.
I'll never buy a brute after owning 70HP, have to go up, maybe the new Can Am but not the old, see how the Po Po holds up next time. I was running down the train tracks in the slag at 70 kmph and slag was kicking up into the frame, so I am hoping a random piece is what initially cracked the cast plate holding the shaft to the front diff. It should be covered under warranty.....see what the dealer has to say.
I heard of this before, so you jogged the memory and it makes a lot of sense if you suspect your getting into a good one. I would not want even a little bit of rope or cable rapped around the bumper though...it's way cleaner looking in the spool so the engineering would be appreciated on my end, extra cable is always a good idea as well, could of used that this weekend as I was digging around in swamp rubarb looking for something solid because I did not have enough in the spool, found out the hard way that there was a big black hornets nest in the shrubs.
The broke
and the stuck, only cause the front tires were dead.
