New Gator "XUV" series

Dargo · Dec 6, 2006

TOMMYHPX4X4 said:
change out my alternator to a 200 amp.

Holy cow man!

I've never even seen a 200 amp alternator. With my luck, if I installed one that size, some wire would ground on the frame and fry me as drive along.

I got popped a good one last night by a capacitor in my barn furnace. I had to change out the gas valve since my valve went bad. I had the power to the unit shut off and was reaching inside to unplug the three wires on the valve and managed to make contact with the back of my left hand on the end of the capacitor. Yeooww! Whacked me a good one, and then I smacked my hand a good one on the bottom of the burners. That electricity is mean stuff if it gets out of the wire!

scesnick · Dec 6, 2006

I'll still stick with my Rhino. If you want power steering, Yamaha is rumored to be putting the electric steering assist on the Rhnio in 07'. It is on the Grizzley for 06' asnd they say it works great. Even in Diff. lock on the blacktop.
even without power steering i can steer my rhino one handed in pretty much any terrain. Unless the front diff lock is on, then I need two Incredible Hulk arms to turn the wheel...

Dargo · Dec 6, 2006

scesnick said:
I'll still stick with my Rhino.

As a former motocross racer, I understand. BTW, why is it that injuries I sustained over 25 years ago racing motocross are now coming back to haunt me???

TOMMYHPX4X4 · Dec 6, 2006

Dargo said:
Holy cow man! I've never even seen a 200 amp alternator. With my luck, if I installed one that size, some wire would ground on the frame and fry me as drive along.

I got popped a good one last night by a capacitor in my barn furnace. I had to change out the gas valve since my valve went bad. I had the power to the unit shut off and was reaching inside to unplug the three wires on the valve and managed to make contact with the back of my left hand on the end of the capacitor. Yeooww! Whacked me a good one, and then I smacked my hand a good one on the bottom of the burners. That electricity is mean stuff if it gets out of the wire!

yep i like elctrical power the moer the better. the first rule of thumb is when you work on somethign eletrical is disconnect it then turn it on. or kill the breaker and then give the capacitors time to discharge if not they will chage you up.lol kinda like the old tv's with the tubesalot of people don't know this but you could acualy take a few of them tubes out of some of them tv's after they were turned off and hook wires to them and fire things up. they were the best energy storers around. but getting back to the alternator yep i wanna go with a 200 amp right now i'm right at around 100 amps and everything is working great i have cd player/6 running lights/4 55 watt driving lights/1 flood light for backing up or working in the rear of the hpx/my two head lights 37 watts/ the dome light.power inverter/and the fire truck radio and siren(super loud). plus the extra battery to charge to and it does great the lights never dim at all. but the only thing is my fuse is too small for the siren so i have to run a seperate wire for that radio but i have had everything on all at the same time and no problems. but i only ran it like that for maybe 30 minutes the real test is gonna be in febuary for the parade when it runs for 6 hours straight. now all the stuff won't be running so it should be ok and i'll be havin it in low gear pulling a trailer and that will bring up the rpms and spin the alternator faster so i should pump out plenty of juice for the eguipment.right now when i am at just right above idol speed it reads 14.8 volts constant and it stays there even when i am at cruising speed it might go to 14.9 every so often but it mainly stays at 14.8. right now i have a toyota tercel alternator in it.lol i want to go to a mean green one .me and a buddy are working on one to mount in his rhino problem is he works on a supply boat 28/14 right now it's the 28.lol but soon as we have the set up goin i'll post some pictures of that one.i have all the parts and material we just waiting on the rhino to come into the operating room.

scesnick · Dec 7, 2006

Dargo said:
As a former motocross racer, I understand. BTW, why is it that injuries I sustained over 25 years ago racing motocross are now coming back to haunt me???

I think you answered your own question ( 25 years ago ) I know all about that.. I still have good lap times but the recovery times are way, way longer now...

25 years ago would have probably put you on the air cooled, oil slobbering obnoxiously loud 2 strokes.. Gotta love the 2 strokes.. I had a four stroke Yz 426 for 2 years. I went back to the 2 stroke. it just works alot better in the woods...

TOMMYHPX4X4 · Dec 7, 2006

the last bike i had was a 1980 rm 400 man she was nice . i really don't care for them 4stroke bikes. they just don't sound right! the 2 throkers wrere alot easier to fix when you blew something too. if you blow the piston 30 minutes tops and you were back ridin . now the 4 strokes i think you have to mess with the timin chain and stoff like that to change the piston if i'm not mistakin unless they changed the setup .back in the day e would have a piston with the rings already on it that way all you had to do was take off the jug and push the pin out and pop in the new piston then slide the jug back on. i never raced but me and a buddy used to run the local state troopers every weekend we ran the bikes hard enough to where i would carry gasket material in my pocket for my watercooled rm because when you would run it down the highway at full thottle for to long it would burn the gasket almost every weekend. but we always came prepared with pocket knife and gasket material and we always ended up at dawsons pond(good water supply).