Polaris ATV Belt Drive Maintenance Tips
On behalf of Expert Village my name is Tom Roland and we're at Cottonwood Motor
Sports and I'm here to tell you about doing service on a Polaris Quad and
this is fairly representative of many of them. One thing that's commonly overlooked
on the belt drive systems. On the Polaris belt drive system to cool them and
to keep them cleaner they circulate air through them, they pull air in to the
system and then the swirling action inside takes the air and swirls it through
the inside cooling air and then it exhausts it too. Depending on the model, it
depends on where the, where they are, here's one tube for it and here's the other
tube for it. And, this is the exhaust, this is the intake and they take the
air and they bring it down, it helps to keep it cool it also helps to exhaust
the dust and the dirt, any dirt that might happen to work it's way inside. On
some of the models they have foam up in the front of them and that foam keeps the
rocks, small birds and stuff like that from getting in there. You also, you
want to make sure these things are clear. Also, if a belt was to blow up inside
this cover it throws little pieces everywhere and what has to happen, is you have
to make sure that these ducts are clean because if these ducts aren't clean
then you can put a new belt in here and you can blow it all out in here but the
normal action of the unit, a lot of the broken pieces might go right back down
into the belt cover again. So those that, and also if it has a screen up on the
front end of it, like some units do, then you have to remove those or you can't
get all the parts out of there. It'll just, you blow them up here and then
they'll just come right back down. So this is all stuff that we know because we
work with these units all the time. But you have to make sure that these ducts
are all attended to properly.
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