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Attention: Corporate office of Artic Cat….Redesign the Diamond Drive!!!!
I had my 08 M8 pinned up a hill when the Diamond Drive locked up the track. This rapid loss of forward momentum tossed my body forward and forced me to violently kiss the bumper; this hurts and puts the mind in disarray when going up hill.
Skidoo resolved the 08 XP driveshaft issue with a complete no hassle warranty exchange after only one year of problems, how long and how many lawsuits will it take AC to remedy this issue???...someone will get hurt from such this horrid design.
We all know plenty of people have had bad diamond drives from both the M8 and M1000, now would be a great time for AC to recall this inferior product and release a chaincase retrofit (or a complete overhall of the current DD design, take one apart and look at it, its clear waht is wrong with this design)…its 2009 and this design is extremely inferior to anything currently on the market.
+++++UPDATE+++++
Had a few minutes to remove and take a look…i only had a hour to spare, it appears a need to pull the inner bearing off to get further????
The damage seems to be: 5 planetary gears, center sun gear that is part of the shaft or who knows?….the ring gear looks fine, by design the sun and planetary gears will fail before the ring gear…thank god they got that right. But the fact remains – this is a caveman gearbox, where is expected gear debris going to go?…nowhere, it cant, just bounces around and eats up all the other teeth…retarded!!! A correctly designed gearbox would have an exit path for debris and a sizeable low point area to collect this debris…hell, most have a magnetic dip stick of sort to collect said debris….oh hold the phone, they have had this simple maintenance friendly design on BRP sleds for a years. Rant Over!
I had my 08 M8 pinned up a hill when the Diamond Drive locked up the track. This rapid loss of forward momentum tossed my body forward and forced me to violently kiss the bumper; this hurts and puts the mind in disarray when going up hill.
Skidoo resolved the 08 XP driveshaft issue with a complete no hassle warranty exchange after only one year of problems, how long and how many lawsuits will it take AC to remedy this issue???...someone will get hurt from such this horrid design.
We all know plenty of people have had bad diamond drives from both the M8 and M1000, now would be a great time for AC to recall this inferior product and release a chaincase retrofit (or a complete overhall of the current DD design, take one apart and look at it, its clear waht is wrong with this design)…its 2009 and this design is extremely inferior to anything currently on the market.
+++++UPDATE+++++
Had a few minutes to remove and take a look…i only had a hour to spare, it appears a need to pull the inner bearing off to get further????
The damage seems to be: 5 planetary gears, center sun gear that is part of the shaft or who knows?….the ring gear looks fine, by design the sun and planetary gears will fail before the ring gear…thank god they got that right. But the fact remains – this is a caveman gearbox, where is expected gear debris going to go?…nowhere, it cant, just bounces around and eats up all the other teeth…retarded!!! A correctly designed gearbox would have an exit path for debris and a sizeable low point area to collect this debris…hell, most have a magnetic dip stick of sort to collect said debris….oh hold the phone, they have had this simple maintenance friendly design on BRP sleds for a years. Rant Over!
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