While changing the fluid in both the front and rear gearboxes on both machines yesterday, the drain plug on the front gearbox on my RZR stripped. The 8mm allen socket completely rounded out. I bought an easy out to remove it, shouldn’t be a big deal to get it out, I’ll get to it tomorrow.

The last time the gearbox fluids were changed in these machines I paid someone to do it, my mistake counting on someone else to do it right. They must have used a 36" breaker bar instead of a torque wrench with the correct 10 to 14 ft/lb of torque specification in the service manual. At this point I consider myself very lucky only one stripped, all 8 were way over torqued. I won’t make that mistake again, live and learn.

I thought it would be a good idea to get the new plug before removing the stripped out one, so I called RideNow to check on stock and price, lucky me they had one, not so lucky me, $44.XX for a drain plug that has a o’ring and magnet. WTF, I damn near shat myself when I heard the price.

Tips for installing the drain and fill plugs, 1- use a torque wrench set to the factory specification, if you don’t have a torque wrench snug it up do not crank down hard on it. 2- put some anti-seize on the threads.

Now I have a question. Has anyone second sourced these plugs? If so, please post the vendor and part numbers. I want to replace all of them next time I change the fluids, so I need 4 fill and 4 drain plugs and I refuse to pay that price for 8 plugs.