Hello Everyone,

How often on longer trail rides have you come across downed trees requiring a chainsaw to clear the path? Just wondering if I should bother lugging my chainsaw along on longer trails in three UP of Michigan.

Thanks!

Kanaka

Hello Everyone,

How often on longer trail rides have you come across downed trees requiring a chainsaw to clear the path? Just wondering if I should bother lugging my chainsaw along on longer trails in the UP of Michigan.

Thanks!

Kanaka

Hello Everyone,

How often on longer trail rides have you come across downed trees requiring a chainsaw to clear the path? Just wondering if I should bother lugging my chainsaw along on longer trails in the UP of Michigan.

Thanks!

Kanaka

Hello to all. I’m so glad there is the forum with all this info. I’m asking for some help in a problem I’m trying to solve on my 2013 Grizzly 550. When the key is off and I hold the reset/select buttons and then turn the key after a short time the diag mode pops up. I can scroll thru different d settings- I’m trying to find out if there is a way to reset all these settings back to the factory settings. Or if anyone knows what all the d settings should be set at from the factory. I believe one may have gotten changed and I made the big mistake of not noting what all the settings were before I stupidly messed with it. Very stupid. I called Yamaha and that was a frustrating waste of time. Called the dealer and got no where. If anyone has any suggestions or can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

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Hello to all. I’m so glad there is the forum with all this info. I’m asking for some help in a problem I’m trying to solve on my 2013 Grizzly 550. When the key is off and I hold the reset/select buttons and then turn the key after a short time the diag mode pops up. I can scroll thru different d settings- I’m trying to find out if there is a way to reset all these settings back to the factory settings. Or if anyone knows what all the d settings should be set at from the factory. I believe one may have gotten changed and I made the big mistake of not noting what all the settings were before I stupidly messed with it. Very stupid. I called Yamaha and that was a frustrating waste of time. Called the dealer and got no where. If anyone has any suggestions or can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

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so have a 2011 sportsman 550 touring, has about 215 hrs on it. at 195 hours i had a mechanic do a "full" lube, change fluids, and i put in a new battery plus i put on new tires, 6 ply radials one size bigger in each direction sedona Rip-Saw R/T Radial Tire 27×9-14 for the front and 27×11-14 for the back.

lately i have heard or noticed in high gear, usually under load, going up a hill or especially uphill in a wash where the ground is loose, at about 11 mph i start to hear a high pitch howl or whine, when i go faster, i don’t hear it anymore maybe because the engine gets louder though. seems to mostly do it when accellerating, not when coasting but i let off the throttle to coast. i can’t really hear it in low gear.

only strange occurance lately is i had unloaded it after a ride and parked it and notice oil underneath, like maybe 2 oz’s i am guessing, the oil filter had come slightly loose, i tightened it back up and checked the oil which looked fine. you do have to screw the dipstick in all the way to correctly check it, right?

any thoughts?

i have inspected the drive belt and it is oem polaris and is in pristine shape, i also clean off the clutch face and blew out the black dust in clutch assemblly. this was about 25-30 hours ago, and i only recently noticed the howl. it’s a faint howl by the way, not super loud. anyway, i ride alone alot in remote areas, kinda worried about a break down. it has been a great quad and very reliable.

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Just purchased a 450 sportsman, hoping to do a lot of riding and hunting with it, does not have ps are all of them tough to steer in the 4 wheel drive mode, or am I just getting old. First atv I have owned or driven. Thanks for the add.

Just planned a day ride to Windrock for next Saturday if anyone wants to tag along holler at me , so far we only have 3 going … 2 Grizz 700’s and an Outty 1000….maybe a couple more that isn’t sure yet.

Are the xxc models an excessively stiff ride? I have no pre load on the rear shocks and enough preload on my front shocks to give me my 10" of ground clearance. I also set the compression adjustments to the softest I can go and this machine is horrible. Every other machine I ride with is way smoother including my arctic cat mud pro.