Lemon???

[Scott]

By golly, this worked, the 660 weighed more, I checked the 660 bulb and it had fluid in it. The 800 didn't have any fluid in its bulb. Do I need to get one of these thingamajigger's? Anyone recommend where I drill a pilot hole into the bulb to place fluid in it? I don't really wanna go to Driven in Casper and spend money on Polaris Factory fluid taillight bulb, unless I am unaware of a recall on the bulb that was in the 800.

You need a race bulb.
Get it from a local racing team.

 

[nighthawk285]

Damn, and all this time it was NOT a part of my Pre-season maintenance checks! Coming from the diesel performance side of things, I'm fully aware on how the proper voltage feedback from the brake light influence your MPG, HP/TQ curves, and overall performance of a pickup, but I wasn't aware of the severity of how it affects my sled! Thank you Snowest!


EDIT: So, from my calculations, the proper bulb will get you about 5 extra horsetorques, but the race bulbs that Scott referenced should net an additional 10-15Horsetorques throughout the whole RPM range! Hot damn!

 

[Hotshotharry]

You flatlanders are lucky. Us mountain riders have to have altitude compensating brake light fluid or else the bulb will build too much internal pressure and burst. Talk about embarrassing, not to mention how unsafe a condition that causes. I always carry an extra drum of the stuff in the trailer.

 

[geo]

Anybody got a fix kit for this yet?

We had 24 cents fall and I couldn't go for a ride 'cause of the Poo tail light issue!

Sux!

 

[richracer1]

Well, that's likely your answer right there. The bearings in your Super Q likely need lubrication. The increased friction will build up negative ions and begin to short out your stator. Thus, the reason you have lights going out. Give your muffler bearings a good slather of grease and you should be good to go.

OMG, you brought up muffler bearings, let's not get started on those cheap azz things.

 

[nighthawk285]

Too bad a US company hasn't stepped up to develop a higher quality muffler bearing, I'd much rather buy one of those over the cheap Chinese options

 

[14RMK144]

Over here in MN We make our own muffler bearings out of sixlets candies, and use a safety ring from a large juice bottle for the race. The trick is to open the sixlets, and put them in a low temp oven 110degrees. To dry out the chocolate enough that it won't melt inside the candy shell when installed.
Send a self addressed stamped envelope and $5 I can send detailed instructions and diagrams.

 

[Scott]

None of this will ever work if you don't calibrate your hifax dampeners by bleeding the LED light hydraulic system.

 

[tuneman]

WOW! This thread sure went off the rails! The OP had a legitimate concern about his stock RMK, and you guys are talking about sixlets for muffler bearings?!! Everybody knows muffler bearings are made of ceramic, due to the high temperatures! Geez, grow up.

 

[14RMK144]

WOW! This thread sure went off the rails! The OP had a legitimate concern about his stock RMK, and you guys are talking about sixlets for muffler bearings?!! Everybody knows muffler bearings are made of ceramic, due to the high temperatures! Geez, grow up.

See that's why you should get detailed instructions from me. A special process that actually turns the candy coating to ceramic. Then the chocolate acts as an internal lubricant, and so you never even need to grease the muffler bearings.
Geez, jumping to conclusions

 

[olymon]

All you haters are going to have egg on your face when he proves that he had a lemon because of a bad light socket that he couldn't torque the light bulb down to the proper 50 lb.ft. Spec

Making JIS screws into junk

 

[richracer1]

All you haters are going to have egg on your face when he proves that he had a lemon because of a bad light socket that he couldn't torque the light bulb down to the proper 50 lb.ft. Spec

Making JIS screws into junk

The highlighted part is his problem, everyone knows it's torqued to 50 in/lbs.

 

[sledhead_79]

WOW! This thread sure went off the rails! The OP had a legitimate concern about his stock RMK, and you guys are talking about sixlets for muffler bearings?!! Everybody knows muffler bearings are made of ceramic, due to the high temperatures! Geez, grow up.

UMM, its a stock PRO rmk!

 

[sledhead_79]

Did you change to winter air yet in the 660 bulb housing? If not that will cause the condensation (fluid) you are talking about. The 800 does this automatically every time you hit the "oil reset button" on the dash after doing an oil change. The 660 is much more to maintain then the 800 because of that middle 6 in the number.

Don't waist your money on that tool as that model doesn't filter the air first. Snap-on has a better one with an LED light for about $2,500 more.

Well the winter wind in Casper has finally picked up so I can make the adjustment if needed on the 800, but hot damn, once I drilled a pilot hole into the 660 to see if it was orange or clear fluid for comparison, the wind blew it all over the place and it came out DITCH PICKLE green (talk about a facial). So I am waiting for a calm day before I take open up the 800 to see what color of fluid it has.