Well mine **** the bed today with just under 280 miles. Shut off on me and hard to pull over.
850 Patriot Owners- Poll Failure or Not
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Sorry to here that. Can they get you back on the snow soon? Should be priority!
Hope so. I got a rental 800 for the weekend. Im gonna drop it off at the dealer on Tuesday when i get back in town. We have another trip planned in a month and if its not ready ill have nothing to ride.
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Danbot
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I found the center oil hose off my 850 last week, its at the dealer now waiting for parts. They tore the engine down, and did not find any internal damage, still lots of oil inside.
I understand that they are replacing the check valve, and the service manager requested pistons just because its open. Total downtime should be around 7 days.
I understand that they are replacing the check valve, and the service manager requested pistons just because its open. Total downtime should be around 7 days.
Posts getting deleted?
Sure seems like a lot of posts are getting deleted on this thread. Anybody else notice?
Sure seems like a lot of posts are getting deleted on this thread. Anybody else notice?
I hope so! Probably 1/2 of the posts were just trolls and clamity howlers. It will be nice to just have the posts that actually had something to contribute to the conversation.
Mine went down last weekend, pto bearing slid into crank. 254 mi, 18.7 hours. 2 miles in on the trailhead to the chic choc's, 11 hours from home. Had to rent a sled for the weekend, good news is Polaris covered the rental charge so still got to ride.
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Danbot
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My oil hose situation should be resolved by the end of the day.
Polaris handled it decently enough.
-I found center oil hose off after spotting a small mess under sled. Aprox 500 miles, pre-december build.
-Dealer removed engine and sent Polaris pics and report.
-Polaris told my dealer to completely disassemble my engine and report back.
-Dealer found oil in the center cavity, as well as everywhere else it's supposed to be, no discoloration / play found in any bearings, pistons and hone look good. They sent pics and report to Polaris. The only real issue was the check valve partially blocked by excess case sealant which caused the oil hose to pop off.
-Polaris courier shipped parts to my dealer (3 business days to northern Alberta, not bad).
My dealer is just finishing the rebuild this morning: New check valve, piston kits, and necessary gaskets / seals. They are also doing the ECU update, and putting me back in break-in mode.
The service manager mentioned a new procedure for installing the check valves using some sort of loc-tite instead of case sealant.
Polaris handled it decently enough.
-I found center oil hose off after spotting a small mess under sled. Aprox 500 miles, pre-december build.
-Dealer removed engine and sent Polaris pics and report.
-Polaris told my dealer to completely disassemble my engine and report back.
-Dealer found oil in the center cavity, as well as everywhere else it's supposed to be, no discoloration / play found in any bearings, pistons and hone look good. They sent pics and report to Polaris. The only real issue was the check valve partially blocked by excess case sealant which caused the oil hose to pop off.
-Polaris courier shipped parts to my dealer (3 business days to northern Alberta, not bad).
My dealer is just finishing the rebuild this morning: New check valve, piston kits, and necessary gaskets / seals. They are also doing the ECU update, and putting me back in break-in mode.
The service manager mentioned a new procedure for installing the check valves using some sort of loc-tite instead of case sealant.
Exactly the same thing happened to me in the same place. Just shy of 280 miles with about 13 hours. 3 miles or so up the trail on the first day. about 12 hours from home also lol. Mine seized and pretty well sent me over the bars. We towed it back and had to rent a sled for the whole weekend also. It didnt seize completely because I was still able to turn it over but it was very stiff.
Got it going again on Sunday to put it on the deck and then again on Wednesday to unload it. What did they end up replacing? Just the crank or did they sent a crate engine?
I guess we had a bad weekend, LOL. Mine seized after the 1st bridge on the sugar shack road. Got towed back to the truck and was able to free it up and get it loaded on the deck. It ran after just sounded really bad. From what dealer tells me, their going to do a crank and pistons, reuse the case. Hopefully have it going late next week.
I was up there the 20th to the 23rd probably passed each other out there. we rented a house from the sled den, rental sled was from there too.
We stayed in Marsoui and went with Aventure Chic Chocs. I rented a sled from them. Bent an a arm too so I also had to pay for that. Did they cover the entire rental or just one day?
rented for two days, left early on Saturday so didn't rent on Saturday. But Polaris covered both days, just needed to email copy of receipts to them and explain the issue with customer service. I was impressed I got that far with them honestly.
Ok cool, I had the rental for 3 days. Its been at the dealer now for two days and I dont think they have even started taking it apart yet. That part is really pissing me off because they dont even know what they need yet for parts. Bad enough I didnt even get it until the first week of January and now I have to wait again...
That’s cool Polaris covers a rental for you. Actually really impressive.
Also it seems that Timbre is a bit slow demanding pictures, mileage, repair order numbers and post count and join date verification.
I would be upset!!!
I'm working on it, Bro . . .just be patient and give me time hahaha!
Super cool that Polaris paid for the rental costs! I too am VERY impressed!
Sled I towed out last week (above) has been torn down. Engine was toast on top. Gear that runs the water pump appears to be some kind of fiber? Isn't metal. Failure may have started there. I don't know but the gear looked bad, top end gone and some damage in bottom.
Interestingly, I rented a Doo this weekend for my daughter. Rental guy said his fleet of Poo 850s have had 5 fail out of 8. Blamed the sealant issue and this water pump gear (which he mentioned before I said anything about the one I had observed so it may be an issue as well). No engine failures in his Doo fleet or his cat fleet. Has had a couple broken monorails on their alphas.
My 850 rmk suddenly started bogging at WOT at about 350 miles. Pulled it in the garage parked it for the night and the next morning there was a puddle of oil on the floor. Oil spattered all over the inside of the belly pan. Oil lines intact. Brought it to my dealer and they said it was ‘packing oils’. Hahahaha. They did a reflash and cleaned it up and sent me on my way.... rode the sled today and the bogging is worse and there’s more oil spattered on the bellyvpan and all around the motor. Dropped off at dealer and waiting for their response... my question is what do you think it could be? Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Nate.
Thanks.
Nate.
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