I have an '04 Eiger that the belt is slipping on pretty good now at 800 miles. It started to do this seldomly at 300 miles. So I bought a new OEM belt and no change at all. It has just a very minor slight groove in the front pullys, but not enough to do this.

Is the rear pully suppose to push the belt back out on deceleration or does it just stay in the same position all the time? I ran it with the cover off in nuetral and the rear pully keeps the belt in the same position at all speeds. When you take the belt off the pullys go back together on the rear. That is some spring on the rear, hate to take that nut off and never get it back on. I need some kind of compression tool.

I am thinking that the rear pully is not pushing the belt back out to tighten up the belt on deceleration.

Anybody had this problem before??

Doug

 

to be honest I would like to know also. I have a king 700 and it has about 200 miles on it and it seems to be slipping now also. I think there is a way to tension the belt but as far as i know a dealer would be ur best bet, but maybe some one else can help you out with this. My king is the first quad I have owned that is an automatic so these things are new to me.

 

Well, if you took off the nut on the front drive pulley and were able to get it back on, you should be able to take the rear nut off as well. Both these get torqued to 83ft/lbs, and you will need to buy the "rotor holder" tool from suzuki, or make your own (i made one by welding 2 bolts onto a piece of angle iron). Dont run the bike too long or too hard with the cover off, as there is a pilot bearing in the cover that keeps the shaft centered. Check the rollers in the front drive pulley. Reassemble and double check the torque on the nuts is 83ft/lbs. Make sure everything is clean in there.

 

rustytracks, you don't have to worry about the spring when removing the outer nut. It's held on by a completely different one.

 

I am still messing with it to see why it slips when I have time to fool with it. The outer nut on both pullys is no problem to get off and back on. I just don't want to take that big (tanged) nut off the back that holds the spring on. I will have to make a tool to compress the spring just like doing struts on a car in order to get that nut off. That thing has some serious tension on it.

I went to the Suzuki dealer with the pullys to have them give their opinion and they have never been into an eiger belt system before, so they do not know off hand what is causing this. I talked to another dealer and the same response. But there are guys on this forum I see that have the same problem. I sure hope someone or I figure this thing out. If I do I will post what it was. Just to note that this only happens sometimes on take off, not while moving.