k, well what is the stuff they generally do during the maintenances?

 

change the oil you can get the oil at polaris a manuel will tell you how often to change what somethings go longer than others. you will have to greese all of the greese fittings some people do this every ride some people let it go longer. some people don't grees it and break stuff its up 2 u. the manuel will tell you how often to do everything like belts air filter but stuff like that is also on how you drive the atv and if you pull heavy loads up hill smoke it or if you ride in dusty conditions. i see no were on eather of my belts that are over 5 years old. i do but its very small i put a new one on and can't feel a diff.

 

well, i will look into that and see about maybe doin the maintenance, but i have to take it down to the dealership to get the steering on it fixed, so i will probably get the 50 hr maintenance done there.

 

yea i heard dealer charges around $85 an hour and charges an hour for things that could only take 15 minutes.

 

huh, well i duno... it would just be kinda weird for us to bring it to him and tell him to fix it and then we do the maintenance that is due like right then, but well see...

 

yea he can do it this time but next time you will repair and maintnance yourself. ive heard you have to take alot apart for teh steering thow idk it didn't look that bad.

 

by the way you have discribed your problem, it sounds like you have bent the metal bracket welded to the base of the steering shaft where the tierods connect. There is a posibility that it is simply bent and can be fixed, but it probably has bent AND cracked that metal flange and in that case would have to be replaced and wouldn't be safe to drive as is!
As stated in previous posts, even if it is simply bent, bending it back without reinforcement of some kind will fatigue the metal and is a failure/accident just waiting to happen!

 

ya, i will look at where the tie rods connect and see if that is the problem and how bad it is. i will probably take it in soon tho.

 

One of my friend bent a Yamaha tie-rod when he hit a tree, and straightened out instead of replacing it. It kept bending in the same place and didn't take much to do it. It seems like the steel got soft but it probably just wasn't perfectly straight. Once it's bent it just seems to fold after that.

 

yea when you bend stuff and straiten it it looses alot of strength and will eventualy snap and you don't whant the front tires going in diff directions at 15 let alone 50 mph