Today I took my Sportsman 500 out to the self serve car wash to spray some mud off, I changed the oil, and added a little coolant since mine was low. Test drove it to cycle the new oil in, and I noticed it was slowly losing more & more engine braking. What could have happened? I didn't pressure spray nothing underneith real hard. My coolant was below MIN so I filled it to 3/4 between full and min. Any ideas?

 

sounds like the EBS clutch is going bad

 

I would love if I lost the EBS on my 800 but since it is tied to the clutching system I guess I will put up with it. I have never liked the EBS and have thought about puting on a 500 nonEBS clutch.

 

Well maybe I should also specify that acceleration is very difficult now, it lags very bad, so I kinda want to figure out what could be wrong and fix it.

 

Water may have got sprayed in the belt housing air intake, rev the motor up in neutral and it should dry the cluches up quick.

 

Thanks for the tip. I just ran out and on the down revs I heard something plastic/rubber like ratting in the EBS. It moves as slow as it has before, could it vbe a belt of some sorts popped off of a pully? Is it safe to remove the cover of the EBS box and look?

 

For gods sakes do not ever remove the belt cover! There be dragons in there. LOL



Here is a good video you should see at least once. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_HhKSY3Ro8

 

Hahah. Thank you. I'll try to check mine out tomorrow.

 

Rebuild the primary clutch, there is a couple of washers that you need from Polaris that get "compressed" after usage, think they are around $6 last time I went through mine. New belt also while you have it a part

 

youy need specail tools to get to the washers that need to be replaced and maybe check out the ebs bushing to see if its bad if your going to keep it. i like my ebs on 800 as i hardly use my brakes.