I waas driving my 79 trailfire last night when the belt blew! I had a spare with me and put it on and drove absolutely fin for about 1 mile and then the machine came to a stop! The motor still runs fine, the clutch appears to engage as normal but the track won't move and it made a whining sound so I killed the engine and pulled it home with my Liquifire (what would I do without my liquifire). What may have happened and is this real bad news? I am not really technical but I assume that there is a chain drive between the clutch and the track? Any insight would be helpful?
Thanks in advance!
Could this be bad?
Could this be bad?
Sound To me like you may have had a bearing failure.
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oldslednut
Could this be bad?
HELLO
i thought i did the same thing, had bearing failure on my 76 polaris starfire drag sled i got back to the shut down area it was idleing and it all of a sudden started squeeling , just as i pulled the teather, thought oh well i have more ! but then i started it again and it didnt do it , took it home to check it over, pulled the jugs all is good felt the crank perfect like when i rebuilt it, now what the hell was it?/
I put it all back together stared it up reveed it up and wow it did it again i was lost for thoughts, then i stated it again and reved it thinking well its Messed up anyhow i will find out for sure, and nothing till i let it idle back down, well long story short my clutch movabel sheave and spider and nut all loosend up, brand new polaris p85 problem fixed.
So check your clutch close before tossing the motor !!
Just my two cents
i thought i did the same thing, had bearing failure on my 76 polaris starfire drag sled i got back to the shut down area it was idleing and it all of a sudden started squeeling , just as i pulled the teather, thought oh well i have more ! but then i started it again and it didnt do it , took it home to check it over, pulled the jugs all is good felt the crank perfect like when i rebuilt it, now what the hell was it?/
I put it all back together stared it up reveed it up and wow it did it again i was lost for thoughts, then i stated it again and reved it thinking well its Messed up anyhow i will find out for sure, and nothing till i let it idle back down, well long story short my clutch movabel sheave and spider and nut all loosend up, brand new polaris p85 problem fixed.
So check your clutch close before tossing the motor !!
Just my two cents
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JDXsand00s
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Could this be bad?
When I put a new track under my X6, i put the chain only on one of the set of teeth on the sprockets, not both. about 20 miles later my sled quit and revved up but didn't move. both clutches were spinning but not the track, took off chaincase insert and notices that the chain sheared off the row off teeth. stole the setup off a 400 sitting around and haven't had a problem except more acceleration and lower top end.