I love doing the pull off thing.I once tied on to a 18 hp John Deer lawn tractor which had wheel weights and turf tires with chains.I thought I was going to clean up but that thing crept a head without a wheel spin while it draged me back with all 4wheels shooting rooster tails.

 

You know what they say, "nothing runs like a Deere".

 

was it a diesel tractor??? im sure the weight of the tractor played a major factor. the 18hp lawn mowers i have seen are not as heavy as a sp500. and not nearly as much traction.


later
jon

 

It had a twin cylinder gas engine made by Onin.It was was much heavier. It looked like a expensive lawn tactor because it even a PTO 3 point hitch.The guys tiller for it looked like it must of weighed 400lbs but he did not have it on.

 

One more thing 01Grizz, the SP will ride SMOOTHER after it gets 500 miles or so on it. Out here on the farm, I still prefer the simplicity of a solid axle, but I never turn down the chance to drive around brother in law's SP. I actually go looking for ditches to cross and holes/bumps to hit just to convince myself how smooth the darn thing rides.

 

Regardless of whether a Yamaha is 3 or 4 wheel engine brake, it goes down steep hills at a crawl without sliding.

 

JHAM,
Absolutly! When the wheels are moving the quad, it will spin only 3 wheels sometimes. However, when the quad is moving wheels, such as decending a hill, I've never heard of or seen any less then 4 wheels getting traction.
Yesterday I went out riding for awhile, and just as I was ready to leave, these 2 pickups pull in with a bunch of quads and bikes. A bunch of kids mostly, but the first thing they do is come over to check out the Griz (that happens alot, especially since I put the Titan's on it). They all noticed that it was an automatic, and this one kids says he has a buddy who rides a Polaris and he didn't like the fact that you couldn't ride the gears down hill. I told him that it must have been an older one, becuase now you can. So I ride the Griz to the top of this really steep muddy, rutted, root infested hill. I turned around and just let it idle back down, I even had to give it gas at one point to get moving! When I get to the bottom, I ride over and say "see, it will ride the engine down hill". They were pretty amazed! It was kinda fun.

Rick

 

01 grizzly, i herd lot of poeple say that the 600 motors go out.when the 700 sp come out race it and pull it. could be a good one.

 

I do not get whats so hard about going down a hill! I have no EBS let alone care if the EBS works on 2 wheels or 4.I just squeeze the brake if I feel I'm going down the hill to fast, whats the big deal to it!

 

Tim1,
Apparently you have never ridden down a very steep muddy hill on a 4x4 quad with engine braking to all 4 wheels. Or you wouldn't even be asking what the big deal is!
When decending a hill with 4 wheel engine braking you have a constant, predictable, controllable resistance being applied to all 4 wheels so you can retain greater control.
I don't believe any human hand or foot or combination of both can do that nearly as effectively! Or, at least thats been my experience.

Rick