My rancher is shaking real bad when I'm under hard acceleration. I'm thinking taht it may be the clutches giving out. Have already checked everything fron the swing arm back,even replaced the drive shaft u joint. Thanks for any help.

 

When accelerating hard, does it rev up suddenly and disproportionatly to the increase in speed?

Does it run and ride smoothly otherwise (when not accelerating hard)?

 

I rode today and it is starting to jump while putting around. I talked to a atv mech today and he said that the rancher has two sets of cluthes one set for shifting which he said is probley causing the jumping and one set which is for the primary drive,he said when they go bad thats when you fell the slipping, but until he looks at it cant really tell.

 

Yeah, there are two clutches. One is a centrifugal clutch with shoes inside a drum, and a one way sprag kind of thing in the middle. This is the clutch that disengages when idling.

The 2nd clutch is more like a typical motorcycle clutch with plates. It disengages when the shifter is moved up or down.