All posts by dstech

2003 Polaris Predator 500 Trouble Starting

Hello everyone,

I’m new to the site, I need some advice on why my Predator won’t start. I took it to West Virginia to ride the Hatfield McCoy Trails, for 4 days it ran with no issues. I let me buddy borrow it to take it to the sand dunes in Michigan and he took two passes and it stopped running, he said it wasn’t getting fuel and a couple of this friends with more experience said it was the fuel pump. From my understanding, there’s some discrepancies with the fuel pumps on these beasts. He ordered me a new fuel pump, I replaced it and tried to start it and it turned over strong but there was little suction on the outlet of the fuel pump to cycle fuel, but there fuel being pulled into the fuel pump. I understand its a small vacuum that cycles the fuel but it doesn’t seem to be making it past the fuel pump. Any information to help with this would be extremely appreciated, thank you in advance.

-Brian

Rims rubbing

Hey guys i have a 95 fourtrax 300 and cant figure out why my rims are rubbing the shock when i turn the bars all the way either way. Any help would be appreciated. Machine is all stock as far a lift or anything. Tires are 24×9-11

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Want to make my TRX 420 into a mud bike

Hey I’m new to the forum and I just got a new to me 2007 TRX 420F manual foot shift. I’m looking for any advice on parts or links to parts I’ve been looking but have t really found a whole lot. There is lots of parts for ranchers but I’m not sure if they are the same. I’ve been looking at a fear reduction kit but I’m wondering if it is worth it with the manual transmission. The bike has a 2 inch lift in it, now on to the next thing just don’t know what that is. Any suggestions would be great thanks.

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Worst CV Axle Job EVER…

I’ve probably done more than 200 Cv axle / joint replacements in my life conservatively and never had one this hard to replace. (not all atv’s but cars, trucks and suv’s as well)

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Had to pull the entire differential out with the other axle still in place. this was not fun to get out of the frame. The pinion gear is still froze to the driveshaft so I had to remove the pinion gear from the differential

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Welded a couple of ears onto the cv joint so it would extend past the width of the jack so I could attach some steel rods to to get over the top of the jack. I actually broke one side off of this in the first attempt to pull the joint and had to add some gussets you can see in the last image.

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Built a platform out of 2" x 1/2" flat bar with a couple of legs to stand the jack on leaving enough room under it to pull the joint.

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Here is the top part of the puller and rods that go down to the joint and got welded up to the ears sticking out from the joint.

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And finally the extracted joint. It took three tries in all to get the joint out with a 3′ pipe as a jack handle and 195 lbs of body weight using everything I had to make the jack go. I about gave up and gave it one more push of the handle and it popped. I initially thought another weld broke, but upon inspection the joint finally let go. The jack had oil coming out of every seal when it was all said and done.. You can actually see the shininess of the oil on the base in the last image..