Its the world we live in these days.
Hopefully things will straighten out sooner or later. Although I don't have much hope.
Hopefully things will straighten out sooner or later. Although I don't have much hope.
The Brake stop ride, What is the real issue
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Whoever is going to make a jumper to bypass this, please send me one along with an invoice.
This would be the dumbest fix that Polaris could do. I rode my matryx all day yesterday, finger on the brake and no pressure on the brake lever. When you slightly depress the brake lever, you will notice on your 7S display the red brake light turns on. When guys run with their finger on the break, you’re not depressing the brake it’s just there for when you need it in an instant. Maybe that’s why I don’t have problems with my sled and never have but I also don’t put any pressure on the break with my finger is resting on the lever.
I played with this all afternoon. No matter what I tried the inboard pad drags.
I tried shimming the rotor and caliper, also filed the brake lever. If you let the rotor float it doesn’t drag but once you tighten up the top QD sprocket, it drags. I might play with this again tomorrow.
The outboard piston retracts the inboard one doesn’t.
I tried shimming the rotor and caliper, also filed the brake lever. If you let the rotor float it doesn’t drag but once you tighten up the top QD sprocket, it drags. I might play with this again tomorrow.
The outboard piston retracts the inboard one doesn’t.
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Most new vehicles detune when your foot is on the brake. No more Brakestands !!!!
What’s this world coming too??! Pretty soon you’d think they make us want to drive stupid electric vehicles and not our sweet diesels!!?
Did you notice if your rotor was getting hot? Friend and I shaved our levers, after about 10 miles of trail at 20-35mph we stopped for a break to let another buddies sled cool it's new top end, both our rotors were warm, but thats it. YMMV though. I'm not worried about a brake fire on mine, I'm closing in on 600 miles and she is around 150.
What's interesting to me is that nobody has ever posted on this forum about a matryx catching fire due to brake heat.
There are obviously cases of this happening, but we forum jockeys are usually very quick to post when things fail.
Power robbing issues do not equal stop ride recalls IMO, but clearly the attorneys are "working hard to keep us safe."
Not sure how many actual riders are stopping riding due to any brake-related issues, but I don't know any.
There are obviously cases of this happening, but we forum jockeys are usually very quick to post when things fail.
Power robbing issues do not equal stop ride recalls IMO, but clearly the attorneys are "working hard to keep us safe."
Not sure how many actual riders are stopping riding due to any brake-related issues, but I don't know any.
Exactly, nobody said anything till Polaris issued their stop ride...maybe all those sleds blew up from the gas tank recall though before they could...
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Fredrik
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There is a gap in tunnel so snowdust will enter from inside tunnel to behind brake disc,did they not seal it from factory for
cooling brakes or just production flaw,anyway i did seal it with silicon.
I'll look at mine tomorrow and see if mine has it.
I’ll get back to you on that. I don’t know if he wants more business.
I looked at my 155 and it definitely has it. I wouldn’t necessarily say that we should all look at this and go, “ Maybe It’s a flaw”, because we will never likely know all of the nuances that they did on a sled during production for certain things like this. There’s a possibility it’s to allow snow dust for cooling the brakes, but I’m not concerned with sealing it up.
I can't speak for you trail riders but there is always snow built up around the QD pulley when I ride. That has to help cool the belt from the rotor heat. I bet only the guys bashing trails who caulked up the hole in their tunnel, custom cut a piece of plastic around their can tip to keep all the snow that was getting by out which caused their clutch to miss align by .000067" and don't forget ⅛" of ice built up made them to get stuck on the trail! ??
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Come on Rusty, weigh in with your keyboard expertise and tell us if this isn't quite possibly the reason behind the whole stop ride.
?Come on Rusty, weigh in with your keyboard expertise and tell us if this isn't quite possibly the reason behind the whole stop ride.
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