O6 clutch issues....

[t30mg]

Went riding in the snowies last week and my buddy took out his new to him 06 summit x 800 w/ 144x2.25x16 for the first time.

Sled ran great, would hit 8k when you nailed it, but then backed down between 7k-7500 rpm and stayde there till you backed off. On the flats it tended to hold closer to 7500, but in the climbs it would stay down around 7k.

I have a 04 800 summit w/ 151x2x16, and not having any clutching experience at all, we swapped belts at first. When that didn't help, we swapped secondaries which didn't help either. Since I had a puller in my toolbox in the pickup, when we went back to the rig for lunch, we swapped the primaries. I at first thought that maybe the heavy spring snow would simply load his deeper lug track too much, or maybe he had higher gearing than me. But now his sled would stick to 8k, and mind inherited all of his symptoms of course.

So when we got home, we opened the clutches to compare them. The ramps, rollers, and arms were all stamped the same as mine off of the 04!

So if we have the same parts in both the clutchs, what would make his clutch consistently back down to 7k-7500 regardless what sled it was on?

 

[BBP]

Bushings are probably shot.

 

[tukernater]

sping were they the same? if so measure them one might be screwed.

 

[jacmmaxwell]

Sounds like a differance in spring or pin weight.

Even if the springs are the same it sounds like his is weak.

Did you guy bother to try the clickers?

 

[t30mg]

Both clutches had the clickers set on 6. We were riding above 10k on a warm day.

doo talk is also telling me it is a tired spring....