yamaha kodiak setup

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Why was the grizzly retired?
 
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We wore its engine out and spent $$$$$$ repairing it. What we do is quite had on tow machines so we schedule to have them replaced in 5 years.
 
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New pods might be going on shortly. We got 5" to 8" of white stuff here today and it will continue to fall.:thumbsup:
 

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Our brand spanking new Kodiak was put into the field and we have received snow here. Snow control fender flaps remain to be added, but that will get done later. Ops! At least one photo is a grizzly.
 

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We wore its engine out and spent $$$$$$ repairing it. What we do is quite had on
tow machines so we schedule to have them replaced in 5 years.

When you say, wear out the engine, what exactly fails?

My experience in repair/resto of all brands of ATVs it that the engines are good for many
thousands of hours if maintained properly. Other parts of the quads are usually long gone
before the engine is toast.

If you do 300h per year, does your machine get 1-2 oil and filter changes per year?
 
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Yes, we do 2 oil changes per season, plus we do not skip maintenance in order save $$$. We have nearly all there service done at the locale Yamaha dealership and the engine started to knock, and they said it wasn't worth repairing. I can't tell you what the knocking was from but it sounded like a rod bearing to me. (unprofessional opinion) My cohort is a school trained power sports, mechanic type who's been wonderful to have around and he also said that's what it sounds like. For our tow machine replacements we cycle them at 6 year intervals, but found that we work our atv's so hard, we needed to do them in 5 years. We also hope to get larger HP and CC ones for the next replacement cycle. We can't get 1.5 years of service from there CV belts!!

This might be hard for sport users to imagine, but we operate them at high percentages of there max HP for much of there time. This is why we need to go to larger engines. Hope that helps!


When you say, wear out the engine, what exactly fails?
My experience in repair/resto of all brands of ATVs it that the engines are good for many
thousands of hours if maintained properly. Other parts of the quads are usually long gone
before the engine is toast. If you do 300h per year, does your machine get 1-2 oil and filter changes per year?
 
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as seen working today

Taken while out today. I've been working daily for over two weeks now. Good news is snow will shut down for a a day. We rolled over 75" today for the season.
 

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As stated above, this had been a good machine but a tad short on HP. We're getting a more powerful ATV this fall and we'll delegate this machine to easier towing job. I should add its a 1000 Outlander we'll be purchasing.
 

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