The past couple of days I decided to do the annual maintenance and change out all the oil, spark plugs, belt (this is what brought on the desire to do all of this, the belt was slipping) and lube everything, the forums were a huge help. I’m by no means a mechanic but I do feel fairly competent when it comes to basic servicing and repairs. Well, $250, 10 hours and 1600 mg of ibuprofen later everything is replaced except for the front gearcase (stripped the fill plug when trying to open it) and the rear gearcase (actually switched the fluid out but when I was torquing the fill plug back on, it broke into two pieces…not sure I believe the manual torque recommendations). Anyway, that was a lot more involved than I expected it to be, especially having to pull the whole back off to change out the spark plugs (I have a spare mounted on the back along with a storage box)…not to mention the extreme heat I was working in. On the plus side, I probably lost 5 lbs due to sweat. Next time should probably only take 2-3 hours as long as I don’t have to switch out the belt and spark plugs). Are the newer models easier to do the routine maintenance on?
Anyway, that’s me. Not many performance mods on my RZR but a fair share of comfort mods including stereo, Rigid Industries LED lighting and I did put a bench in the back seat (part of the reason it is tougher to get to the oil/spark plugs…) and a bump seat in the front so it actually fits the whole family with seating for 6 and harnesses for 6 (my youngest two are small daughters so it works at the moment).
