Matt, I have the factory wrenches if you want to borrow them....
Average Oil Consumption 800 Dragon
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Matt, I have the factory wrenches if you want to borrow them....
I do! I'll send a PM tonight.
Your dealer and your sled are both smoking way too much something. I get at least three tanks to one bottle of oil.
I burn 3/4 of the tank of oil per one tank of fuel. It used to burn 1/2 tank of oil for 1 tank of fuel prior to the update kit. Looks like I am burning way to much oil!
I went through the same crap with my D7 - it sucked oil like there was no tomorrow (more than 30:1) and Polaris told the dealer not to touch it. I adjusted it myself... As far as Polaris is concerned, virtually any level of fuel economy or oil consumption is "normal". I think it's their way of telling you to "piss off" when they just don't want to fix your sled. Unless you start coming back to the dealer with ice cream buckets full of fouled spark plugs, there isn't anything wrong.
Well so much for that dealer, engine started knocking and seized on the 1st day of a weeklong trip. Dropped it off at a different dealer and found out that the mag side rod brg. failed. I told them that it didn't use much oil and that the other dealer said it was good. They checked the pump setting and said that it was not correctly set.
3rd time now for this engine to be apart, 1st time (Dec 25/08)mag piston seized, 2nd time (Oct 19/09) 2010 update, 3rd time (Dec 27/09) mag side rod brg. new crank installed. Still waiting for sled, hope to see it next week.
Sorry for the long story, just make sure you're using enough oil.
Wow, that ratio is crazy low! Even if you were getting 8mpg (which is very optimistic) that's 145 to 1.
I now have 1030 miles on 09 600 Dragon Switcher, uses 1 qt every 8 gal of gas or so, about 70-80 miles of flat land trail miles. Two different dealers checked out and said pump is spec-on. Second dealer told me the "break-in chip" in computer doesn't burn out til sometime after 1,500 miles??? He promised oil and fuel consumption would get much better.
In high elevation I got about 50 miles to a quart of oil.
Oh yeah, one of the dealers told me if I was worried about fuel and oil economy I should've bought an etech!
My personal opinion is to just tighten up the oil pump slightly yourself, no dealer will do this on their own b/c then their responsible for burn down due to too lean oil.
Interesting to know there's a lot of variation in oil consumption between same sleds in both 8s and 6s
In high elevation I got about 50 miles to a quart of oil.
Oh yeah, one of the dealers told me if I was worried about fuel and oil economy I should've bought an etech!
My personal opinion is to just tighten up the oil pump slightly yourself, no dealer will do this on their own b/c then their responsible for burn down due to too lean oil.
Interesting to know there's a lot of variation in oil consumption between same sleds in both 8s and 6s
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akrevrider
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Oil pump adjustment the easy way
---Slide up the rubber cover on the throttle slack adjuster cable on handle bars, near thumb throttle.
---With a white paint marker make a mark on plastic jam nut & the plastic housing.
---Loosen jam nut approx 2 to 3 turns, turn in the plastic adjuster to shorten adjuster length, creating extra cable slack for both the oil pump cable & throttle cable.
---Remove air box.
--- Raise the throttle cable at throttle body cable adjuster on top of throttle bodies to reduce throttle cable slack. This then will leave extra cable slack at oil pump arm.
---Then fine tune throttle thumb lever slop at the throttle cable adjuster near thumb lever.
Very easy to adjust oil cable & throttle cables reduce oil usage per these crazy1cars posts :
http://www.hardcoresledder.com/forums/inde...mp;qpid=3391852
I'm at at 40:1 ratio of 1 qt of oil per tank of gas using this method.
akrevrider
---Slide up the rubber cover on the throttle slack adjuster cable on handle bars, near thumb throttle.
---With a white paint marker make a mark on plastic jam nut & the plastic housing.
---Loosen jam nut approx 2 to 3 turns, turn in the plastic adjuster to shorten adjuster length, creating extra cable slack for both the oil pump cable & throttle cable.
---Remove air box.
--- Raise the throttle cable at throttle body cable adjuster on top of throttle bodies to reduce throttle cable slack. This then will leave extra cable slack at oil pump arm.
---Then fine tune throttle thumb lever slop at the throttle cable adjuster near thumb lever.
Very easy to adjust oil cable & throttle cables reduce oil usage per these crazy1cars posts :
http://www.hardcoresledder.com/forums/inde...mp;qpid=3391852
I'm at at 40:1 ratio of 1 qt of oil per tank of gas using this method.
akrevrider
hey jim, if you need them ..I have the factory wrenches for adjusting the pump...
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Had the over oil eating on 08 D8 was defective oil pump. not an adjustment. there were a few at my dealer with this defective pump!! mine used full tank oil to full tank fuel!
Had the over oil eating on 08 D8 was defective oil pump. not an adjustment. there were a few at my dealer with this defective pump!! mine used full tank oil to full tank fuel!
