Just a heads up to other Trail owners. I was running my rig last night, heard something let go and then a real loud thumping whenever I went above a crawl speed and it seemed like it was right below my seat. I limped it back to the trailer and took it to a buddy’s shop to investigate. We pulled the centre console to have a look at the driveshaft and the hanger bearing was completely out of it, driveshaft was just whacking away in the old mount.
I did some reading and apparently it was a problem on the 900 XPs back in the day. The only other bit of investigation that I figured out was that the original part number was superseded already by a new part which tells me that maybe there was issues with the original.
I’m outside of my 6 months, and me and my pal already ripped it apart so I’ll just buy the bearing and replace it. Polaris item is $100 US, I’m going to try an All Balls replacement kit for less than half that.
I don’t baby my machine, that’s for certain. It had lots of hard winter running and has already seen a good bit of mud and water. That said, only got 35 hours on it, probably about 200 miles.
Check those hanger bearings boys!
