Hey all, has anyone been unlucky enough to flip their Grizzly 700's backwards yet? I did this past weekend going up a steep hill. It flipped backwards once, landing back on its wheels and rolling the rest of the way down the hill upright. But the damage was already done. The force of the impact pushed the bars down to the airbox, bent my steering column, front rack, carrier stays, and front bumper. There are little gussets that are welded to the main frame that the front carrier stays and your fender mount too. Those gussets were bent down as well. This is just from a single flip over! I am just a little disappointed because i have flipped a few other 600 pound 4 wheelers before and about all that happend was a bent rack and handle bars.

I had tools on hand to loosen bar clamps and get the bars repositioned, and ride back to the truck. On the way back i noticed that the steering was much tougher than usual, and I am hoping it is just from the steering column and that I did not hurt the EPS.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had problems with the steering column bending or the frame gussets bending? And what are the chances that the impact could effect the EPS?

 

The problem is that each roll over is unique... Nobody is going to flip their quad over the exact way anyone else did... (heck, my buddy flipped his grizzly 700 and was impailed by a stump 2 inches deep into his anus... so be glad that didn't happen to you!) My other friend has rolled his yfz doing about 40mph (clipped a rail road tie in the weeds) and all he did was bend up the left a-arms, shock, and tire/rim... (and got a bruised tailbone) I wouldn't write this off to poor design of the griz...

You need to take all of the front plastics off and meticulously go over everything to see what all was affected by the wreck...

(sorry to hear about the broken grizz, hope you get her up and running soon)

 

You need to go over to this site and download a service manual to help you with your Inspection and repair. It's free. I'd also go over to Highlifter fourms and ask this same question because there have been a lot of roll over's talked about on this site. Glad your ok.
http://www.grizzlycentral.com/...ex.php?showtopic=2004

http://highlifter.com/forum/

 

I flipped my Grizzly 700 the same way only I watched it tumble about a half mile down a mountain. I'm planning on selling the engine on ebay. Lucky me the thing was fully insured. I'll post pics in a day or two for all to gawk at.

 

I agree..think its all in the way the quad falls.. I've flipped my bruin backwards (granted it is no grizzly, but it really doesnt way that much less) and all I got was bent front rack and handlebars (handlebars were straight, just had to tighten them)
My friend dumped a polaris 500 (probably heavier then a grizz) off a bridge onto rocks 6' below. It landed upside down, broken headlight...
Luck of the draw I guess.. good luck on the repairs though, hopefully you get out of it cheap. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Well, it turns out that the shaft in the power steering unit was bent in the crash as well. I have turned it in on my insurance, because the total bill is going to be $1700 for everything. After waiting on them for 3 weeks, I am finally going to get them to pay up and I should get my grizzly back this monday. This has been a headache.