The break in period would have nothing to do with a belt slipping.

Just so you know, I live in East Texas and most of my Riding is in the Ozark and Ouchita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas. If you are riding up steep hills with rocks and gravel pulling any type of trailer, you would lose traction long before you would ever slip a belt in low gear... unless you are doing it in powder snow which would casue the belt to get wet.

 

Hmmmm, well maybe you should try to put one of those new Sportsman 700 belts on there, then see if it does it again. How many times have you pulled the trailer up that hill?

 

Maybe you should trade in on a PRAIRIE 650! Just picking. My P650 belt was smoking just pulling my fat @$$ on a slight incline. I took to dealer & they made a few changes & no trouble with it now. Just throwing a little good humor at you. Good luck!

 

Hey Martin,

I agree with the others, the evidence points to operator error. Because there is no indicator for the selected range it is quite easy to mistake hi for low.

Using high range in that situation would definitely smoke the belt. But to rip it apart requires some sustained effort.

To burn its belt in low range, an HO needs extremely good traction and be pushing against a brick wall!

 

Maybe 6 ot 7 times before.

Is the 700-belt somehow different than the 500?

Will it fit on the SP 500?

 

OK, to every flat-lander.:

There wouldnt be any chance at all to go in high on the "road" up to my cabin. Even not without a trailer at the hitch. Think how mountains look like in the Sierras, the Rockies or in AK or for Canadians: Remember the mountains in the Kluane NP/ Yukon. that how it looks like everywhere over here.

I am talking about real mountains and not just hills. Hills are the Apalachians or so. I mean extrem high and steep mountains, no chance to go in high at all. Just one second of loosing control because of too high speed would cost my life because on the right side of the trail, it goes down vertical approx. 300 feet. No fence , no nothing. Trail is between 5 and 6 ft wide, very windy and partly slippery and with loose rugged gravel and loose rocks.

People from the Netherlands wouldnt even walk that trail.

 

I am not trying to be smart, but if you claim that these "mountains" are ALL THAT....then why in the world would you try to pull a trailer up this "MONSTERIOUS" mountain with a quad?

 

I believe he lives in the German Alps and those are some steep mountains. They have cabins up there because that is where they have their summer pastures and they have mind their livestock.

 

Yes, exactly.

We go up to the cabins from mid of June when the snow melts and stay till the 1st week of September when the snow comes again and we keep cattle up there. Cows, goats, sheeps. To make cheese.

The only other way to carry stuff up there is on horseback (mule) or with a helicopter. But they cannot drop the material off because of the forest and it costs a fortune. There are special heli-companies which do just transportation of construction-material, but they charge approx. 950$ per hour. Just the electricity companies which make elelectricity by water can afford that.

The cabin is approx. 350 years old and needs renovation. I have a 4X4 small-size truck. Its almost too wide for the trail and I need to go back and forth in every serpentine 2 or 3 times to get around the curves. Extremely dangerous when wet. I put snow-chains on all 4 wheels to protect of sliding away.

No chance for a Fullsize Pickup or any other American made Offroader because they are too big, too wide and too heavy.

 

Here's how you take care of your problem. Arctic Cat sells the 500 cc machine in a manual transmission under the Massey Ferguson label in Europe. It will tow you lumber up the road with no problems and It has a higher torque rating than the 500 Polaris engine. Best of all no belts to burn up. So if you ever consider trading look up the Massey Ferguson ATV.