How Hard Is It To Get Right
Dec 29, 2011 | 08:39 AM
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From: WV
How Hard Is It To Get Right
Why don't ATV manufactures put the battery in a super easy accessible place. Why tuck it under the frame and plastic in odd places. To add something to a battery post, or change it out should not take an extra 30 minutes of disassemble time. My son's 90 Sportsman has it right, pop the seat and its right there on top with easy access. My 500 has me crawling around in the dirt to take off a strap, wrestle with a cover, and then tilting the battery to get it out of the box. Many other brands are much worse than this, requiring fender pulls. Short of putting air in the tires, this should be the easiest thing you have to fiddle with on a quad.
End of rant, carry on.
End of rant, carry on.
Dec 29, 2011 | 10:12 AM
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The older Sportsman batteries are much easier to remove and install if; 1) You stop by a machine shop and custom fabricate your own special tools and 2) you stick your arm in a vice and snap it half way down the forearm to give it the extra flexibility needed to bend 90 degrees twice to reach the battery location. Then you need to know the secret Polaris 'combination' needed to extract the battery through the maze of frame members and wiring harnesses requires; spin the battery twice to the right, lower it, spin it left once and move it forward, spin it back to the right then turn it until its on its side....
It's totally worth spending the extra $ to get the Odyssey battery and be done with it. They usually last at least 7 and up to 12 years. They don't surprise you by going dead suddenly (and at the worst possible time), they start slowly winding down at the end of their life, so you get a warning.
It's totally worth spending the extra $ to get the Odyssey battery and be done with it. They usually last at least 7 and up to 12 years. They don't surprise you by going dead suddenly (and at the worst possible time), they start slowly winding down at the end of their life, so you get a warning.
Dec 29, 2011 | 10:24 AM
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From: rindge, nh
can-am did, does not get much easier then slipping it right out the back after releasing one rubber strap....
Dec 29, 2011 | 10:34 AM
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The older Sportsman batteries are much easier to remove and install if; 1) You stop by a machine shop and custom fabricate your own special tools and 2) you stick your arm in a vice and snap it half way down the forearm to give it the extra flexibility needed to bend 90 degrees twice to reach the battery location. Then you need to know the secret Polaris 'combination' needed to extract the battery through the maze of frame members and wiring harnesses requires; spin the battery twice to the right, lower it, spin it left once and move it forward, spin it back to the right then turn it until its on its side....
It's totally worth spending the extra $ to get the Odyssey battery and be done with it. They usually last at least 7 and up to 12 years. They don't surprise you by going dead suddenly (and at the worst possible time), they start slowly winding down at the end of their life, so you get a warning.
It's totally worth spending the extra $ to get the Odyssey battery and be done with it. They usually last at least 7 and up to 12 years. They don't surprise you by going dead suddenly (and at the worst possible time), they start slowly winding down at the end of their life, so you get a warning.
Guess you figured out what it takes to be a Polaris tech 
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Dec 29, 2011 | 12:33 PM
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That's because there's no room in the front part, it is taken up by a super high tech three wheel drive system that senses which tire is stuck on the rock so that it can send power to the other front tire that is up in the air.
Dec 29, 2011 | 02:28 PM
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That's funny. I don't care who you are, that's funny!
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Dec 29, 2011 | 02:38 PM
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From: rindge, nh
huh? I don't get it.
The visco front diff takes up no more room than any other front diff.
Sounds like you've never been on a new can-am.... because what you described in your response has never been the case on any of the 7 can-am's that I've owned
