Quite an adventure!

Subject: Quite an adventure! Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:49 pm

Well guys,

Collin and I decided to get the atv out last night and take it for a ride since it hardly ever gets road anymore. Go out and fire it up. Everything is fine, we take off on a loop of some gravel and level B roads around West Point just to kinda let her breath and get a nice ride in. Well all was well and about 11 miles into the trip the water tempature light comes on. Shocked

Not cool! Luckily we were very close to home at that point so I just slowed it down and breathed it back to the house. Tore the front end off to get at the radiator to check the fluid (which BTW is rediculous, you gotta treat the front racks and much of the front plastic off just to check the radiator fluid) when I got to it and opened it it was bone dry. Another Shocked

. So I fill it us and the overflow up, put it all back together, fire it up and light is off. Well all the while Matt is just waiting his turn to go for a ride so we jump on again and head on the same journey. About 5 1/2 miles into it (or as far from home as we could get Rolling Eyes

) all of a sudden I feel a minor slipping of the transmission and we don't make it another 50' before I have no drive gear left. What a Face

So we are starnded out in the middle of nowhere at dark with an atv that appears to have had a major transmission failure. NOW WHAT! So I get on the phone to Bonnie (no answer) I call like 10 more times. (Same deal) Then I call my mom, tell her to walk down the street and go bang on my wifes head and tell her answer her damn phone so I can talk with her. So finally she does and I get her on the road with my work truck and some ramps. She finds us quite quick considering she didn't really know the backroads in the area. Got it winched up on the truck and back home around 10:00ish. I can't stand it when something breaks down so of corse I decide I am going to tear it apart right that moment and see if I can figure out what is wrong. Rolling Eyes

Spent an hour cussing it until I decided to try again in the morning.

Well today at lunch I went home and got the belt drive cover off. Sure enough the belt must be in 1000 or more pcs and the string that reinforces it is wrapped all around the drive pullies. So overall not that big of a deal $50.00 for a new belt and it should be back up and running but that's the story of my last night. I prolly shouldn't bitch though, that belt was 9 years old and had been worked to the max on numerous occassions. I was trying to pull out a stuck Rhino one time last spring and the mudd was soo deep and thick that it would barely turn over my own tires without slipping let alone pull out another badly stuck machine. I got it done though. Wink

If it ain't one thing it's another. Rolling Eyes

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Subject: Re: Quite an adventure! Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:20 pm

Gotta love it! Just a good thing you were there with the boys, another couple years and they might be making that same journey on they're own. But I'm sure they'll have a cell phone by then. Smile

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Subject: Re: Quite an adventure! Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:37 pm

Now don't forget to make sure you find out WHY your radiator was dry. That obviously is not natural for that to happen. I don't have a radiator on mine, just an oil cooler. As long as I keep oil in it I am fine

Subject: Re: Quite an adventure! Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:29 pm

Worked great at the ice outing even in the 10 inches of snow.
I think you need a new one Randy.
Then I could have a used one
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Subject: Re: Quite an adventure! Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:13 am