My younger brother is looking into buying the Grizzly. What are the good and bad qualities of this quad? What mods will need to be made?

 

The grizz is a great machine. The first thing i would do is change the Suspension setting from 2 to 3. the other is to put ITP's big wheel kit on 26" are preffered. Anything over that and it will get tippy. Good Luck

 

I heard that they had problems with over heating. Did they fix it or is there something I will need to do to help it cool?

 

If hes buying an 04, the side vents are allready done for the overheating, if not do a search under grizzly overheating

 

04's should be fine

I ahve an 02 and it has never overheated.. I do alot of slow woods riding and hunting stuff too.

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I would recommend a winch and some ITP Mudlites in 26" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Since we are talking about Grizzleys and begginners.. My cousin is interestred in getting a griz or a Polaris 700 twin but he wanted to know if it was to big of a bike to start out with since he has never had one before.. Hes rode them a little bit but not much.. Is it too much to start out with?????

 

depends on how old he is. i started out with a prairie 650 and now i wish i had something else. my prairie in't very reliable, and i want to know howreliable the grizzly 660 is. i love the way they look with a bigfoot kit.

 

The over heating problem with grizzly's were mostly in the South Eastern United states. It was actually called Gasoline Boil over. The Gasoline refined in the Virginia/Carolina's region is refined more for some reason then in other regions causing it to have problems. Yamaha figured this problem out by driving from Goergia and buying Gasoline in the Carolina regions and testing it back in Georga at the plant. Just a tidbit

 

eh, I don't buy that. There were people all over the US having the problem. I am in the SE region and we never had that problem, nor have any club members (that I know of)

check out www.atvnation.com forums. They have a sticky for all the problems and people that have had them

 

Yes the grizzlies are having problems with the back axles breaking. Yamaha has a recall on them so if you get a grizz then deffinately check this out. I work at a dealership. but other than that they are excellent bikes.