Lookin good. Congrats!

 

Hi again. It's been awhile so I'm checking in on the motor swap. I havn't had any bad issues yet. About a month ago when we had 2 good size snowstorms I took it out and plowed out the driveways. And one of these was a heavy wet snow. The set up with the 2 inch reciever for the plow did good. I used low range the whole time and for that matter the machine goes faster in low range than the 700 ever did with out sounding like it's ready to blow up. I find myself using low range now most of the time. My winch mount is also working great. The cooling fan did kick in on it's own but I still like using the switch, it's just a good piece of mind knowing that it's running while plowing the snow. I even used it a week ago to flatten some topsoil on the side of the house where I left a muddy mess with the truck. Yes I had the truck stuck down there to the point where I couldn't drive it back up the hill. I had to have the uncle pull me back up from the street. I could only move a few feet foward and backwards and at the same time I was going sideways and the truck is a 4x4. The mud was too much for it cause the ground there was just too wet with the frost line only about 8 inches below the grass.
I have a new photo of the four wheeler after plowing the mud in the gallery.

The thing started really well when the temps droped down to near 0 degrees outside. All I had to do was pull the choke out half way and warm it up until it started cutting out and then close the choke and it runs great after that. The big 700 was a thing of trying to get it to stay running until it was warmed up. And now that the temps are warming up I don't expect to have to us the choke. This thing feels like a new machine to me now with a better running engine in it. For what it's worth I still feel like I came out pretty good on this choice. I would do it again. If I wanted a newer machine I'd go and get a crashed quad and repair it. That's all I can think of for now.