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Hyfax Rail Fastener

They should be ashamed of themselves. It's not like they invented slide rail suspension last year.. They've been building sleds for 50 years.
And the Polaris saga continues. I'm almost ashamed that I ride one. (if it wasn't so damn fun) Glad its not a '24.
 
Did you torque them to 10ft lbs? Judging from your picture it looks like you may be riding in low snow conditions as well.
His machine was manufactured by Polaris and presumably assembled by a Polaris dealer. You guys need to raise your expectations of a new $20K+ machine. I don't check the torque on the fasteners on a new F-350.. its silly to think that it should be required on a new sled. Never mind the suggested home garage whittling project that many claim is required on the hyfax on these new sleds.

And FYI, I did check the torque on mine. And cut in radius on the leading edge. The hyfax studs were tight as received. Rode it in 39" of fresh powder. It tore the right slide off in less than 8 miles. Today is week 2 of my sled's return to dealership. As far as I'm aware, still waiting on a backordered rail and hyfax that were destroyed.
 
His machine was manufactured by Polaris and presumably assembled by a Polaris dealer. You guys need to raise your expectations of a new $20K+ machine. I don't check the torque on the fasteners on a new F-350.. its silly to think that it should be required on a new sled. Never mind the suggested home garage whittling project that many claim is required on the hyfax on these new sleds.

And FYI, I did check the torque on mine. And cut in radius on the leading edge. The hyfax studs were tight as received. Rode it in 39" of fresh powder. It tore the right slide off in less than 8 miles. Today is week 2 of my sled's return to dealership. As far as I'm aware, still waiting on a backordered rail and hyfax that were destroyed.
The dealer was supposed to torque them but if you had already picked up your sled I suspect the dealer would inform the Op to do it themselves. I am sorry you consider $20k a lot of money. I throw away $20k on a drunken visit to the Casino. I posted years ago that I wish they raised the price of new sleds to $55k so I didn't have to deal with so many peasants on the mountain. I think there is more to people ripping these hyfax off, than a "bad design" hence I am asking the questions. I have over 250 hard miles on my Boost with zero problems with the hyfax so far. I think it has more to do with impacts. For example, there were plenty of idiots that were out bashing their Ski Doo's into rocks and blaming Ski Doo on weak bulkheads. How about not being retarded and crashing snowmobiles into rocks?
 
Blame your dealer.

I have to agree. This was communicated early on to the dealers. They shouldn’t have to do this but….it’s manufacturing. All kinds of things go wrong. And the dealer is the last line.
 
You guys are such whiners. You sit and make love to your worthless clutch like it's going to make you a better rider when in fact 97% of you get zero benefit from wasting time or money on after market clutching but God for bid you have to check the torque on 2 screws on a sled you spent your years income on 🙄
You ever once heard me blame my beloved 2.75 track😜🤫
 
Boeing has been building airplanes for 100 plus years with quality inspectors on almost every operation and is struggling with properly installing fasteners.
 
I am asking questions as I am curious as to why it's doing it. I never said it wasn't a problem you idiot. It's not happening to every sled. Hell it's not happening to 10% of the sleds. We do know there was definitely a production problem with getting the screws tight. This problem could simply equate to the screws not being tightened properly. Go cry and be a little baby somewhere else because you can barely make your snowmobile payment and you don't want to have to actually work on your new sled yourself. When your mom gives you enough money to become a paying member of this forum, we will then possibly take into consideration that your opinion matters here.
I could be mistaken but I think at least a few of these people who have had hyfax issues had the hyfax ripped off with the screw still secured in the rail. I personally know of one person this happened to. I'm not convinced its the screw backing out.
 
For what it is worth. My buddy and I went with larger antistab wheels and tapered the front of the hyfax, for our fix. The stock wheels are just over 3" and we used 3.25" wheels. The issue was the bearing was a couple mm wider on the bigger wheels. I put them on as is, except shaved the outer tubes down a bit. Buddy spun his shaft with a drill and removed the couple mm with a file to have the bearing slide on farther. Neither of us has had any issues after several hundred kms. As expected my wheels run tight to the track nubs, but no wear is visible.
 
12 year old girls use "Cuz". I'm sorry I was trying to figured out the root of the problem while a bunch of idiots just want to cry on how much they spent on their stupid sleds and they shouldn't have to ever tighten something on a brand new sled. The dealers were instructed to torque these screws from Polaris. The dealers that I know have yet to have one fail after the screw has been torqued to Polaris recommendation. I also was told that in torquing the screws on new 24 sleds they have found some to be properly torqued to ones that weren't even hand tight from the factory. I had to torque mine myself because I am not a broke ass that doesn't want to make my payment when there is no snow. I picked my sled up the day it showed up at the dealer which was before Polaris realized there was a problem in production and the screws weren't properly torqued. Therefore my dealer who is very knowledgeable and actually snowmobiles reached out to me right away telling me to bring the sled back or to torque the screws to 120" lbs or 10' lbs. I did that and have had zero issues and even checked the torque again after 150 miles which nothing had changed. It doesn't seem the screws just "back out." It's almost laughable that someone will waste $ on some stupid after market fix that takes a lot of time to install when all you have to do is check the torque on the screws. I said this years ago when I got into the snowmobile game. It absolutely blows me away the amount of hillbilly retards that snowmobile. Worse than any other hobby I have taken part of. The majority is a special group of people that I would never want to classify myself in... Common sense is definitely lacking. Now lets get back to more important topics like spraying PAM on my snowmobile to make my snowmobiling experience better...
Couple questions here…

1- How do you properly torque the coolant bottle cap? What torque? Mine came loose and I’m sure it’s a factory defect and Polaris should notify the EPA asap and let them know in advance, that my sled spilled coolant on the snow.

2- Will PAM make my clutch spin faster and prolong belt life or is that just an acronym kids use these days? Probably both.

3- Do you use AI to create your responses?

Thanks forum expert!
 
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