Gator XUV power..

[ghitch75]

thought i had a dog on my hands....wouldn't pull hills good and wouldn't spin the tires....pull the belt off and measured it was 30.2mm....manual says 29mm replace it.....so i went and bought a new 1....it's 34.6mm...old belt was about a belt thickness longer than the new 1....only had 116 hours on it!!.....i think i found what happened to the belt....i tryed to adjust the parkin' brake and the rod bottomed out and just barely had any brake...pads where gone!!!.....so i think the though owners(drank a few beers when gatorin'!!) left the parkin' brake on and smoked the belt and the pads...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

accually when the belt wears down you will get more low end meaning you will get more power and you will loose yop end meaning speed so you should have been able to take the hills with the power have you been cleaning the plugs and air cleaner?

 

[ghitch75]

i think the belts biggest problem was that it was stretched bad...it shuttered bad from belt slip i think.....plugs and filter are good...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

how many hours you had on it? i get about 400 out of my belts on my hpx i went through two so far well i'm still on my second one i'm about to hit like 750 hours . i haul alot of cement with it plus batteries too itgets maxed out with a 1000lbs easy about 4 times a week .is your new belt workin better ?you know your supose to have that clutch that acomitaes for belt wear and tear so you might have more wrong then just a belt you clutch might not be working corectly it's supose to adjust for longer belt life atleast i think so.

 

[ghitch75]

only had 118 hours on it....i pull a trailer that is 4'x8'x2' full of split wood and the bed full too(about a 1/2 a cord of hardwood).....had 85 hours on it when i got it....it done it from day 1......it pulls great now....couldn't hardly get up the drive(1/8 mile long at about 7% grade)in low gear plus diff-lock and 4x4!!!.....now it pulls the same load in low 2x4 w/o diff-lock....it's like a whole another machine!!!!

sorry for the crapy pic..

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

that belt was brand new and that trailer is a piece of cake for that gator you might wanna check into that clutch i pull a 16'double axle trailer with at one tone it had i'm thinkin back it might have been around 5k-lbs on it it bent ly reciever down about 2 "when i hooked it up and my hpx pulled it through i think it was 6" of slushy mud with no problem so your deisel should walk cricles arould my old 04 gaser. try snooping around the engine and check things out maybe someone els might know i know someone els in here has a deisel they might have an idea but that belt shoulda been still good i don't know whats the measurements they go by for when they say you should replec them.

 

[ghitch75]

it's a 620i gas...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

some reason i was thinkin you had a deisel .but you still got a new belt it shouldn't have went out that fast.that guy must have really ran that brake bad. like you say she's pullin now so i guess the pads will go next being he heated them up pretty good did you ever check them out? mine didn't last long in the mud i had to change them out after 300 hours i'm still on my second set cause i retired her from mud riding.

 

[ghitch75]

changed the pads...3 clicks on a good hill loaded and it holds......yes the new belt made a night & day differance in how it pulls...and no slippin'!!....i'm thinkin' about some mudlite 26's...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

the mudlites are nice i have the mudlite xl's on my rhino and the 589's on my hpx . i would stay with the 26"or under though.you'll get rubbing with the 27's i know i cracked both front fenders sliding into a ditch and tree one rainy day.still haven't fixed them yet.i need to front fenders and the headlight sockets and one headlight . in about a month i'm gonna take her out of comission and have all the work done to her and get her fixed up.

 

[jcmseven]

Tommy is correct about the Mudlites rubbing in the 27" size--if one does not apply lift. My XUV has 28" Mudlites and a 1.5 inch lift and they do not rub with that. I also do not run as wide a tire in front as in back, which helps. I should also mention there was a post earlier in the thread discussing the ITP tires not seating well to the rims. I run SG rims on mine and had one of my four tires not seal well, causing a slow leak. Since I park my machine in the garage and will use it in spurts this problem was easily noted as the Gator would sometimes sit several days between uses. I took it to a tire place, they remounted and viola, no problems since. All four of the tires on my old XUV gas (the same ones) seated fine.

John M

 

[ghitch75]

so you have Mudlite 28" on a 620i or 850?...i have 2" lift on the front....how do they handle a load?...is it more tippy?...i use it the most haulin' firewood up and down hills and haulers....i have read that Maxxis Zilla 26" are liter than Mudlites 26"?....i gonin' with aluminum rims too.....trying to get the lightest tire and wheel combo plus good haulin' and traction....don't want to suck all the power out of it...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

the best thing about the 589's and mudlites is they are made out of the same hard rubber . my local atv shop has them zillas in stock along with a few other brands of tires if your gonna be doing alot of hauling up hill i would go with the 589!! why you ask well the 589 has a solid lug and it's hard as a rock if you walk up to the tire and try to bend the lug it won't bend now the mudlites they are made of the same rubber but their only down fall is they have the indentions cutout at the top of the lugs and to me it makes the lugs weaker you can bend the lugs on a mudlite tire now zillas they are the worst they will bend alot they are a good mud tire but thats it if your hauling a load in a xuv and spin them tires going up hill i don't think they would last to long . to me it would be a tossup between the mulites and the 589's but if it was me i would go with the 589's . i spin the 27's pretty goon with my old 04 hpx so the xuv shouldn't have s problem with some 26"s with aluminum rims i have the old delta metal rims. i can take some pictures of my 589's that are on my hpx and show you just how much wear they have after almost 5 years of hauling a constant 800lbs in the bed everyday on the pavement the front tires have took the brunt of the wear because of the pavement and the weight but if it would be just riding in the dirt they wouldn't have any wear at all infact the rear tires still have 50%or more of their tread left they are some hard tires to wear out .

 

[ghitch75]

are they the one's in this thread?...

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/atvs-utility-vehicles/137664-fixin-up-gator-2.html

pic's would be cool too!!...

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

yes thats my 589's