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Post by Scott S on Jun 17, 2014 11:12:35 GMT -5
Well, I thought I would take the Po po out for Fathers day and go down the street in my neighborhood and go fishing with my sons. Got 1 block from the house on the street and started wobbling pretty bad and then I hear the drive shaft hitting the plastic floor under the cup holders. So we limped back home at 1 mph and take the skip plate off and center console and sure enough I can pull the drive shaft side to side. Crazy design for this, its a bearing inside soft thin rubber instead of solid bearing mount. How did they think this would hold up? I'm not sure of my miles but I know its less than 400. I have order a replacement made by All Balls part number is 25-1682 I believe. Has anyone else replaced one of these? Forum seems to be full of people who have, a lot with 100 miles or less when it went out. I guess Hilltop finished it off for mine
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Post by tylerr87 on Jun 17, 2014 18:11:10 GMT -5
The Polaris engineer that I met told me that the aftermarket figures out the vehicle weak points for them. That and they count on you will buy a new one in 2 years.
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Post by Scott S on Jun 22, 2014 20:04:58 GMT -5
New Center bearing 44.00 on Ebay Total time to finish 2.5 hrs 70 mph test drive priceless Tip for anyone that needs to do this, the service manual and everyone on rzr forum says you have to take the roll pin out from the front drive shaft and front diff, which everyone says is a PITA to punch out. I've found out that if you take the 4 bolts out from under the front diff you can then slide the diff all the way forward (about 4 inches) you then have enough room to pull the rear drive shaft forward and out of the rear transmission. Then you can separate the rear drive shaft from the front drive shaft and bang off the bearing.
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Post by tomdesena on Jun 22, 2014 20:25:04 GMT -5
And exactly how many miles did you have on that machine ? No warrantee???
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Post by Keven K on Jun 23, 2014 6:00:03 GMT -5
My machine (800s with 325 miles) is in the shop getting all the bushings replaced.
Glad I purchased an extended warranty !
Thanks Big Daddy
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Post by Scott S on Jun 23, 2014 11:15:46 GMT -5
No warranty left, but a lot of people are replacing these them self because they don't want Polaris putting the same Chinese crap back in there. So they do it and replace with something stronger. Mine hand 469 miles on it, bearing was completely frozen, scary part was no warning it was coming. might be a good spare part to carry with ya on the trail!
I read many rzr forum threads where some people had theirs go out with only 150 miles??
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Post by Matt H (aka Tiger Rag) on Jul 15, 2014 12:48:49 GMT -5
I remember reading about it and they said it was a 2011 thing and that the 2012 had been upgraded. Well, it certainly is a different assembly for the 2012's - comes with front drive shaft. I just did mine fall/winter, can't remember but mine was under warranty. Good to know if I do mine again after warranty expires.
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