Holz Vents - Did they work out?

[gman086]

I have a set still lying on the workbench... After hearing all the stories about them ingesting light pow and causing clutch slippage I never bothered to put them on. They did send me some pet screen for that lower left sidepanel vent but it honestly doesn't look like it will do much! Was thinking of taping some prefilter material to the back before riveting the vent down. OTOH I'm not even sure I'm going to bother with the vents as my clutches were cool last year with Carl's sheave mod and clutching! So... do I put them on or E-bay them?

Thanks!

G MAN

 

[dmkhnr]

I can't give the thumbs up to mine. The aluminum seems to attract snow which cuts off any venting. I'm constantly wiping frozen snow off of them.

 

[Nvr2deep]

Had them on all season no issues

 

[Anthony Oberti]

I liked mine...no problems all year.

 

[AndrettiDog]

Which vents? I have the knee vents on and never had a problem. It's hard to say how much they help unless you are going to measure temps on one sled with and one without that rode in the exact same places. I just know that the cooler the stuff under the hood is, the better the sled runs!

 

[dmkhnr]

I have the 2 clutch side/1 exhaust side vent. I also have the upper intake track removed so the stock intake mesh acts as a vent as-well.

 

[turbonium]

holz vents

I have the vents on my sled and after i installed them my clutch would slip when i dropped the sled on the right side. I pulled the vent off and put some prefilter material behind the vent and that fixed the problem.

I do like the fact that the vents are metal so they are hard to break...

 

[gman086]

Yup, I like that they're metal too. I ride a lot of trees and wonder about getting a bunch of needles/debris in the bulkhead with the knee and console vents... this a problem? Was thinking of installing prefilter behind all of them since I ride the rain sometimes but not if I don't need to?

Thanks guys!

G

 

[crf118r]

Put 'em on eBay or don't install the lower clutch side one. You will have problems in the powder. Those who haven't... not sure how. I spray glued two layers of the pet screen stuff on both left (clutch) side vents and that seems to have done the trick, but I had a few REALLY bad and super pissed off days as a result of adding them. So bad I had trouble getting out of a bad spot the first day.

 

[theshadowrider]

I tried screen material and it just clogged up the vents not doing much good. I think pre-filter material would be a better option.

 

[crf118r]

Pre filter would flow about as much air as leaving the vents out completely

 

[gman086]

Pre filter would flow about as much air as leaving the vents out completely

Probably but the main purpose isn't to flow air but to let heat escape (Mtnhorse has a nice thread going about this). Which leads me to believe that the knee and console vents may actually be the most beneficial!

Cheers!

G

 

[crf118r]

Right, I read that too. I'm just against the clutch side panel venting. I have the full set and definitely think the rest of them are beneficial.

 

[Old Scud-doo]

I have the vents on my sled and after i installed them my clutch would slip when i dropped the sled on the right side. I pulled the vent off and put some prefilter material behind the vent and that fixed the problem.

I do like the fact that the vents are metal so they are hard to break...

I had the same problem with the same fix. Called Mr. Dustin @ SLP and ordered some material from him and never had problem with them again.

I have a set of SLP vents on my stock silver panels and they worked fine also....when I used the stock colored panels.

 

[OnlyPolaris]

dad ran all the vents last season. Put that screen behind all of them and had no trouble with snow getting in.

 

[Nvr2deep]

The small top center console vent let's out the most heat by far.

 

[gman086]

The small top center console vent let's out the most heat by far.

Good to know! I think I'll get one of those instrument gauge lifters/angle adjusters then too as that really opens up that area!

Thanks,

G