Not bashing anyone here. I used to hang out here when I had a Kodiak and still visit time to time. I now have a Kawisaki 03 P650. I read a post below asking about the Kodiak and water and thought I would post this LINK to a vid of a prairie playing in the water. Kawasaki ran the intake snorkles for the carbs and the belt cooling just under the handle bars about 2 inches above the rack. No this is not me in the vid. These are northern boys.
The vid is about 17meg so you dial up boys will have to let it buffer. His server seems pretty fast.

 

We have about 8 prairie 650's in our group. Nice bikes. They can take about the same water as the grizzley's in our group. (we have drowned several of both in the river in the last few weeks.) One recommendation I have for you... the most common problem with prairies in the water occurs when water makes it into the belt cavity. Prairies are extremely hard to dry the belt on. There is an easy fix though. Tell your dealer you want a belt drain plug for a Kawasaki V-Force. Its just a $3 plug that fits snugly into the bottom of your belt housing that can be pulled to allow it to fully drain. It only takes a 1" drill bit to make one fit a prairie.

Happy Riding

~HoundDog

 

Thanks. Have your Prairie riders tried reving the motor in neutral? I have seen one blow the water out this way and then idle for a few minutes and go. I will however get the plug. I would rather do it that way.

 

Not Prairie bashing here........From what I hear they are the fastest quad ever made stock or modified, so they should be able to skim across the top of water no matter how large the water mass. What about it EYE-SACK?

 

CmyBackULose,

Ha! I don't know about skimming thing! As far as the fastest, well on the tight twisty trails it's mostly the rider with the best skills. If my 2000 Kodiak had a locking front diffy I would still have it. I am 6'2" @ 240 lbs so since I wanted to upgrade to a front locker, I used this as an excuse to get the Kawi. The only draw back, (and all MFG's have them) with a 2 cylinder motor pumping out massive low end torqe due to a power stroke on every crank revolution, they are a bit hard on belts when puting around in Hi gear with a heavy load. Even then it can take many hours of this. I know folks with Yamaha autos that have years of hard usage on the OE belt. My riding partner and co-worker added my Kodiak to his family ATV fleet and it is still on the same belt and it's ridden very hard by the younger family members every day. And then there are some Prarie riders getting 3K miles out of the OE belt.

You Guys Take Care And Ride Safe.