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[Timbre]

For the record, I am not "defending him". He made a mistake and IMO needs no "defence" for that. No, I don't know him, don't even know his name. Never seen another video of his before or since. Just stumbled onto it the other day. Just my opinion but it seems that some of the respondents here are not connected with reality to me. REALITY is that people make mistakes. I have yet to meet the perfect person that has never made a mistake or forgotten to do something yet some here seem to think that this guy is a douche nozzle for making one. I guess because I know that I am not perfect I can understand and accept that others may not perfect either. You know, People that live in glass houses..........Situations like this remind me of something that happened about 20 years ago when I was at a black powder shoot. Someone on the line "dryballed", not an uncommon mistake. "Dry balling" is when you load your gun but forget to put the powder in. A friend on the line laughed and LOUDLY stated "How can ANYBODY dry ball. I've been shooting muzzleloaders for 25 years and have NEVER dry balled". Well, the VERY NEXT station, Roy dry balled. Yup, he never heard the end of that. I suppose some here would have made him walk out since he was so "stupid".

Agreed! Nice to hear from one of the few "wise & levelheaded" people on this site.

The fact is . . .we have ALL made mistakes! No need to flame the guy for what he did (except for maybe the vague reference to thinking it was Polaris's fault) haha!

There are MANY opportunities in life to learn from the mistakes others make. WISE people will do just that, and not have to repeat them!

. . . This is one of those opportunities

 

[06 Dragon]

Anyone can easily forget a tunnel bag or a avy pack open / unzipped after a break. I am sure there is more then one of us, and yard sale the contents. With all he is doing, including filming and excited to run his new sled, probably just slipped his mind, especially if you set the side panel any distance from the sled. Lesson learned, and a good heads up to anyone running a QD2 or any other belt drive setup.

 

[shagsmc]

I wonder if he would of had the stock muffler in there if it would of kept lots of the snow out and saved the sprocket. Just food for thought.

 

[bobback]

I wonder if he would of had the stock muffler in there if it would of kept lots of the snow out and saved the sprocket. Just food for thought.

Maybe, maybe not; but I would not buy an aftermarket can because of this.

 

[Tewstroke]

Maybe, maybe not; but I would not buy an aftermarket can because of this.

I posted on his YouTube comments that I believe the pulley might have been damaged by an impact before the side panel incident. I've gotten packed snow from a poorly closed panel, ice, twigs, etc. packed into the lower pulley area on the QD1 , TKI and CMX drive belt systems and they have not broken a pulley.

My QD1 blew belts one day, but it was because the pulley got hit and damaged the wonderful Polaris aluminum driveshaft so that splined hub/ pulley didn't run true.

Now, a loose spring or small bolt can wreak havoc on a belt drive belt.

But a broken pulley like his? I say it was smacked from below, or maybe had a manufacturing defect.

I'm interested if whether someone else has had packed snow cause such a break.

 

[Ultrasauras]

^^^ seen that previous video to took a hard hit on the belt drive side prior for sure

 

[snosfun]

Sorry, but Polaris doesn't have any explaining to do. I've been running quick drives since the beginning with aftermarket turbos and have never broken a belt or gear on any of them.
Don't do stupid stuff.

 

[astofooroff]

I’m new to the belt drive system..and Polaris in general. Can anyone offer an insight why this may have happened on my third ride out.. 130 kms on the machine cruising down the trail.. to all of a sudden no throttle or brake.. Panels were on.

 

[BarkChomp907]

I’m new to the belt drive system..and Polaris in general. Can anyone offer an insight why this may have happened on my third ride out.. 130 kms on the machine cruising down the trail.. to all of a sudden no throttle or brake.. Panels were on.

Snow/ice/something built up and was rubbing on your belt. Or your brake rotor got too hot. Or bad break in. The quick drive belts are pretty sensitive if you don't break them in properly.

 

[DUDEE]

Snow/ice/something built up and was rubbing on your belt. Or your brake rotor got too hot. Or bad break in. The quick drive belts are pretty sensitive if you don't break them in properly.

ok How exactly do you break them in "properly"?

 

[BarkChomp907]

ok How exactly do you break them in "properly"?

 

[turboless terry]

Guaranteed it wasn't improper break in. I ride them like you're going to ride them and never have problems. That is a phrase that everyone eats up, to get any liability off polaris. Kind of like insurance through ups and they say improper packaging to weasel out. Believe what you want to believe but I'm not buying it. Something else.

 

[Chadly]

Guaranteed it wasn't improper break in. I ride them like you're going to ride them and never have problems. That is a phrase that everyone eats up, to get any liability off polaris. Kind of like insurance through ups and they say improper packaging to weasel out. Believe what you want to believe but I'm not buying it. Something else.

That's probably the first thing he has ever said that I would agree with. You don't need to break those things in. Unless the dealer has broken all mine in on a track stand before I've picked up my new sled...

 

[PSI 800]

I would have to say, that going by the picture something was oviously rubbing on the belt. I too have never done the polite break in and never broke a belt. Definetly watch the power on landing from jumps though, you can strip cogs off the belt

 

[Chadly]

I wrecked a belt like that when a loose spring got between the belt and the plastic molding. Something was definitely between the belt and the body panel.

 

[astofooroff]

Ya I mean I haven’t found anything in there yet.. didn’t do anything from buying it other than unload it.
Polaris said it was caused do to ice build up, in extreme cold weather. It happened on x mas eve day..was max minus 10 Celsius. So of course no warranty, just have to buy a new belt and hope it doesn’t happen again? Rad.

 

[Chadly]

Ya I mean I haven’t found anything in there yet.. didn’t do anything from buying it other than unload it.
Polaris said it was caused do to ice build up, in extreme cold weather. It happened on x mas eve day..was max minus 10 Celsius. So of course no warranty, just have to buy a new belt and hope it doesn’t happen again? Rad.

That sucks. If your dealer was awesome they would try a good faith warranty if what you are saying is the truth. I just have a hard time believing ice would do that. The heat would melt the ice way before melting the belt. There had to be a foreign object in the belly pan.

 

[hamlin]

In the morning when your getting ready to go, either kick the belly pan where the sprocket is with your toe, tap it with a rubber mallet. Anything to bust up the ice that forms in there. It sucks with estart cuz it’s pretty inaccessible. Wife had a ‘16 with estart that got a stick below the belt. It wore a groove in the outer part of belt but never caused a problem.