I just bought a 92 Trail Boss. The transmission wants to grind when you shift from neutral to drive or reverse. Is this an adjustment or what. Also the carburator seems to hesitate when you accellerate. Any suggestions? Can you get a hour meter or speedometer for these?

 

Terry

The transmission is grinding because the belt drive is still turning the gears in the transmission when you shift. Some slight grinding is considered normal, but the way you describe this it is more than normal. This is caused by one of two things. First and easiest, the machine is idling to high, causing the belt drive system to engage slightly. The second is that the belt drive system (PVT) is incorrectly adjusted and is continuing to engage at an idle level. One way to check that this is the problem is to put the vehicle up on jack stands. Start it and put the machine in neutral and let it idle. Take notice of how fast the wheels are turning. They should be turning slow if not at all. Turn the idle down and see if they slow down at all. Carefully grab hold of one and see if the machine wants to stall when you stop the rear tire. If you have adjusted the idle down as far as you can and the rear tires are still turning with some force, your PVT is out of adjustment. I am no expert on adjusting the springs and weights. You might try emailing Muddy4Life (Bill) as he is pretty good with these. As for the carb. I sounds like you have a dirty carb or a clogged airfilter. Start with the airfilter and work into the carb. I am by no means a carb expert (I barely have novice status), but there are guys in here that are pretty good with them. Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for the tips. I'll try them out.

 

to stop the grinding noise grab the hand brake hard berore you shift and that will ensure the secondary has stopped and for the carbuerator hesisation the problme is that it was made by polaris