2013 PRO 2nd shaft blown

[Twilson5]

Went riding with a buddy yesterday whom had his driveshaft break the weekend before. Great day of riding until the brand new replacement driveshaft from Polaris broke 20+ miles from the truck...

Is 11,000 not enough to pay for a sled or do we have to be test dummies all year also? The most "flickable" sled on the market isn't any fun to ride because you never know when you might end up stranded due to a reoccurring failure....

Am I next?

 

[1Mike900]

Jackshaft or driveshaft? Mike

 

[whoisthatguy]

Who didn't see that coming?

 

[Twilson5]

Driveshaft sorry... I fixed it

 

[subman]

not fun

not good.

 

[Skidoo08]

Driveshaft........ there goes the reassurance of once it breaks and is fixed that the issue is gone. Im at 150 miles with no issues

 

[Pro-8250]

Thanks for posting.

 

[Boston Racing]

Thats a bummer. We switched to the 2012 shafts in ours. We got them order just before they ran out. I like the idea of the clamps. If the 9 more shafts this weekend turns out to be true the number of failures went up more thatn 10% in one weekend

 

[snowmobiler]

prove it.

 

[rmscustom]

prove it.

Yeah, First post I'm a little skeptical... But I do think its possible.

 

[Twilson5]

Shaft number two... Skidoo08 was with us. He can confirm that this is a true story.

 

[deschutes]

Oh snap!

 

[rmscustom]

Just what I figured, there is nothing special about these replacement shafts. They are the same shafts that were used in the first place and will have the same failure rate. Polaris probably has X amount of these shafts in inventory and will use them to try to keep sleds on the snow until they figure out what is going on and can come up with a fix.

 

[YADA]

So what do you think about fixing on a driveshaft that new strengthening items (http://www.2strokeheads.com/CLAMP.htm) Can this thing protect the shaft?

 

[Flygti32]

I think these poor souls that are losing there driveshafts better get together and speak to lawyer soon. This is a known problem by Polaris now and in my eyes they are gonna roll the dice on whether or not someone is gonna get seriously hurt or killed.

 

[snowmobiler]

third time's a charm

 

[Oldtimer]

pro broken shafts

last two weekends had a shaft go down each ride polaris better get in high gear on this one

 

[Jeff K]

So what do you think about fixing on a driveshaft that new strengthening items (http://www.2strokeheads.com/CLAMP.htm) Can this thing protect the shaft?

So far there hasn't been any reported failures with people using the shaft clamps. Its cheap insurance IMO.

 

[kmc1]

Hey thats my sled i dont think this is going to fix my sled guys. ps who gave you these pics

 

[mrquick68]

Hey thats my sled i dont think this is going to fix my sled guys. ps who gave you these pics

so, you don't know Twilson5?