lets try this...

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Mark what is that little door on the left side of the radiator housing?

 

an access door to the radiator and winch. A quick way for our Military boys to quickly do maintance.

 

also lets ya get a hose in there to spray the muck out [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

This was brought up in another thread so I figured that I would jump in here. I spent most of 2004-2005 in Afghanistan. I worked with some Polaris' while there. I saw some milspec models, a 6x6 Sportsman, and a couple of SP700 carbs. All of them were tough as nails. The "MV7" was a real workhorse. I saw them carry probably 150% of what they were rated for and never saw one suffer a catastrophic failure. I nearly bought an MV7 when I got home, if for no other reason, just for the nostalgia of owning one. I simply just didn't need that much bike. If I were a rancher or even a farmer, I would have bought one in a heart beat. I hope that you guys enjoy them.

 

thanks for the observations lawdog. and thank you for ur service! On my MV there are 4 threaded ports on the front deck and 4 along the rear deck. I wonder what Uncle Sam had in mind for these. Gotta be some sort of hard mount for a cargo rack? I've looked all over for pix of the active duty configuration w/ no luck. got pix? Its a beefy rig for sure, however, not a lot of OEM storage space, other than adding some nylon bags.

mb

 

Are these threads at each corner of the decks?

 

two along the left sdie and two on the right edge-- front and rear. there is a threaded nut behind the edge (aka nutsert) and the challenge is to find the correct thread pitch and build something. Hummm...beer, bandsaw, welder and time...

mb