Broken carbon upper support??

[whoisthatguy]

To internally splice it only, you could temporarily remove the overstructure and use epoxy and a piece of all-thread to internally splice it. To increase bonding between the epoxy and the carbon, you can roughen up the inside of the carbon fiber tube with a round file. If the crack was towards the bottom, you could turn the frame upside down, fill the carbon tube with Simpson SET epoxy and quickly insert the rod. Then flip it right side up, stuff the end of the rod into the stub on the other side of the break, and pry with knife blade to get penetration into stub. Tape it up to keep epoxy from oozing out. Quickly bolt it back into place so you get the correct alignment.

To splice it both externally and internally, get yourself a 6 inch piece of aluminum electrical conduit with inside diameter greater than the outside diameter of the carbon fiber tube, and a 6 inch piece of threaded steel rod with O.D. smaller than inside of CF tube.
Remove overstructure. Roughen up the outside and inside of the CF tube near the crack. Twist frame to insert epoxy buttered rod, and slide 6 inch length of conduit over outside CF tube. Realign CF tube and pry rod with knife to get the all-thread to slide past break before the epoxy sets up. Then slide conduit into place, tape off lower end of conduit and squirt epoxy into the conduit to fully encase the CF tube. You could be riding in a couple of hours. You could carry all of the equipment to do this, in your vehicle but you would want to warm up the epoxy and the carbon fiber before assembly, by using your vehicle heater.

 

[wideopenproductions]

Broken CF Overstructure

Polaris wouldn't warraty mine either after taking a normal approach and landing in 3 ft of powder with a 2ft base off a 10 ft drop 30 ft out. Felt like landing in a cloud and didn't hit anything under the snow and heard a loud crack and stopped to look and the overstructure exploded these things can't take **** for abuse am getting my warranty refunded and thinking of going back to doo what a load of **** Polaris stand behind your products! And that belt drive they can shove up their asses blew mine after 250 miles and blew a $180 drive belt after 150 miles! This sled has major structural design issues I would not recommend anyone get one of these.

 

[9fingerracing]

dealer?????

I agree that polaris should warranty any structual failure under normal riding conditions. I have abused mine pretty hard and had a few saolid hits with logs, stumps, rocks, and a tree. need a new bumper is all. I was worrieed about my overstructure until i dug into it. No issues except a bad reed. I'm probly 280 lb rider and have had no structual issues. Lost a reed at 500 miles. I think this is a solid sled that can take some substantial abuse. Do they have weak spots. Yes they all do. I would be willing to guess these failures were defects in the overstructure from the outsourced vendor. If polaris wont warranty these and there is no other damage to the sled than that is bull****. I might say that it may have more to do with your dealer not raising enough hell rather than polaris.

 

[wideopenproductions]

Broken CF Overstructure

My dealer has my back sponsored through a performance shop so not their fault.

Check it out below what they offer!

 

[rmscustom]

I agree with 9finger, eiher you need a better dealer or you didnt exactly land in a "cloud". I completely trashed my rear over structure with no damage to the carbon fiber over structure. A quote from a dealer " I was worried about the carbon fiber tubes but not anymore after seeing this".

 

[clamlake600]

Yep, those Poo engineers are pretty bold, drilling holes in structural carbonfiber to hold on some wires. Same tube on the other side.

If they didn't order too many I think next year we will see a different method of mounting the wires.

OMG. How stupid can they be? Everyone better check the overstructure for cracks like that...

 

[Flygti32]

Took this pic two weeks ago of this one when i was walking through the shop. Both tubes broken in the same spot.

 

[9fingerracing]

twisting

All the pics on this thread look like the force breaking these overstructures are from a side load rather than a front impact. Almost like the front towere are twisting independantly from the main bulkhead. Maybe a landing where you come down primarily on one ski more so than the other. IDK. If you look at the breaks the shattered sections seem to be on the side rather where the rest of the tube seems to be a cleean break. Just a thought. Maybe hard off camber take offs or landings and maybe with engine torquing the bulkhead to boot could be contributing to these breaks. Maybe the Pro RMK wont hold up to big air jumping IDK.

 

[lifekicksass]

Broke over structure

I ride a 13' Pro Ride 163 400 miles. A Couple weeks ago I was side hilling and the right ski (not A arm, just the ski) hit a tree sending me into the bars. A-arm was bent so I replaced that and went riding the next weekend. I noticed my steering was loose and popping. I fugured it was bushings. Took it in for 500 mile service and dealer checked it out and said over structure was busted and bushings were shot. I will be the first to addmit that I did hit the handle bars with my chest but damn....Total cost to fix this is well over $1200.00. I do not have pics because sled is at shop. Dealer says over structures are backordered until March 8......Really? My sled will be down almost a month. Just a FYI.

 

[ak]

So could you put some glue are spray foam in the lower hole that polaris drilled for the wiring harness to stiffen up that area?

 

[Teth-Air]

I'm surprized nobody is going to wrap the lower parts of the tubes with fibreglass cloth and resin to beef them up before they break.

 

[Snowriver]

I broke my right carbon support up where the lower bolt of 2 is sitting.
But i also bent my chassi 100mm behind center of driveshaft in the same hit with a rock.
The a-arms are straight but the rodend in the upper arm got bent.

not a big hit got hits like this before on my12 and those times the a-arms got bent and no more.

are the 13 arms stronger ? or just unluck this time ?
any changes to chassi or bulkhead this year ?
I get a little suspicious for the same thing has happened to my friends sled. bent chassi and broken carbon support but straight arms

 

[wideopenproductions]

I ordered the Al front overstructure and stock rear structure but the rear is a month out!

 

[DirtBoss]

Just found this after my steering started acting up. No hits just hard riding. The front section is out of whack by a 1/2" at the shock tower, clutch side. Turbo 13 Pro.