i have the glacier II and today was my 1st time using it, we just got a foot last night into today and it worked great, pushed the stuff effortlessly. got to love the ease of off and on. it was so fun to plow i went out agin, just to make sure i did not miss a spot - at least thats what i told the wife

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: DCT

Did you install it? Easy to install? What's involved?</end quote></div>

Yes it was fairly easy - even though I did it the "harder" way. First you get a factory style on/off switch. The back side of my headlight pod was scored. I used an exacto knife to finish cutting through the scores. Once cut through the switch slides right in.

There are two wires connectd to the switch - one needs to tap into the gray/orange wire that runs between the factory reverse override switch and the digital speedometer connector. Quadovator provides one of the easy splice connector that just slips over the wire. Instead I chose to open the connector on the back of the speedometer and tap into the wire inside the connector. I stripped back about an inch of the gray/orange wire and soldered the wire on then taped it up and closed the connector. That worked fine - but if I had to do it over I might have just used the provided splice. Mainly beacuse it was 10-degrees outside and I only had a 30watt soldering iron - took a while to make a good joint.

The other wire needs to tap into a brown ground wire. Again I chose to use a solder joint and tapped into the brown wire going to the cigarette lighter (accessory power).

So while I did it the harder way - it could have been as simple as using an exacto knife to cut out a prescored hole - inserting the switch - then using the provided splices to tap into two wires.

Definately a great mod if you use your quad to plow.

 

*5 J's*,

Thanks man! I'll check out the Quadovator stuff.

You are correct... it was a bit of a pain holding that switch in as much as I have to back up. Like you, I have a big driveway and parking spots to plow.

 

Yesterday I went and plowed the half of the driveway that I didn't get the day before. I was having so much fun I did the sidewalk down to one corner then started doing other driveways on my block. I stopped and talked to my new neighbor and showed him how the plow unhooks and goes back on. Now he wants an ATV and plow too. 100% chance of snow again tonight but it's only going to be a few inches this time.

 

I've been pleased with my choice so far. I think I may want to add a couple 80 pound bags of sand to the rear rack to help as the road is going to be pretty slick with all the snow piling up. The plow has handled everything I've asked of it. For some of the higher, really heavy stuff that the city dumped in front of my g-ride I had to take it a half a blade at a time, but it got the job down and right down to the bare pavement. We had about a foot on Friday and I was pleased with the job my setup did. Today we're supposed to get another 6-9 inches. I'm confident that it will handle that well too. I should also note that I've tried to plow things with one side of the plow only to see if I could get the plow to want to come off of the mounting point as some people have experienced. I've experienced no problems of that sort. I will keep an eye on the mounting plate to ensure that it doesn't bend as some have reported too, but so far I am very pleased with my Moose RM3 setup.

 

We're supposed to get 18-24 inches today and through the night, but I just going to plow so the vehicles can get in/out. I leave the rest to my plow guy

 

I know what you mean about those 2 bolts. The first time I took it off those 2 junk self tappers were missing. So when I remounted the mount I used hardened nuts & bolts. But it was to late the mount was weakened by the first time it bent and trashed my brush guard. Have you looked at the photos in my profile album? I can't believe that they would think that the stamped out brush guard used to help take the load of the mount. I'm at a lose to why that I can't keep this mount from flexing and passing the stress to the brush guard bolts. The plow & frame aren't a problem, just the frame mount. I've never got the chance to plow anything over 3 inches. Ever time we had a heavy storm, my quad was sitting in the shop because of the mount.

 

Maybe this 07 is the problem

 

Everyone one with 08's seem to have a better time with it

 

The moose angle has been problematic for us. We are on our third one in three years. I have used it along side the glacier 2 on my xp and am more impressed by the glacier plow as far as holding up comercially. The Cycle country State plow is also a great plow 6 years commercial use no problems.