I've had a superwinch LT2000 winch, roller fairlead and remote handlebar switch for a few months now, I finally got around to installing them on the LT-4WD

Around here, I could not find a winch mounting plate specific for my quad, so I improvised

I made my own plates, and welded them to the frame and bumper, it works good now.

 

Looks good! Nice work making it look integrated. I hate when people just throw them on their front bumper or something.

 

yeah man that looks real good.

how do you like that bike? my friend has the 2wd version and its a super reliable TANK. it had 4 complete slicks and still very rareley got stuck in even the worst of mud. and the irs is just amazing.

 

I love it, I have had it for about 8 years now, I was keeping up, through the snow, with my brother in law's polaris 500.

As much as these new "automatics" are nice, I still prefer the shifting, as going through the snow, I was able to keep the engine in it's torque band.

 

yeah man, i LOVE the semi auto for utilities, even if i were to buy a brand new kq400, id still go for the semi auto trans.

i just dont like relying on a flimsy little rubber belt, nice solid gears work better for me. and automatics are just too boring, theres nothing to really do.

and i gotta say, suzuki's semi auto system includes some real smart thinking, i mean, how can the engine idle in gear, and the bike doesnt go anywhere, but yet if you send the thing down a hill in , you have engine braking.

yeah, its kinda a brain twister haha!

 

Ahhhh, I know that answer (with me being a mechanic), it's to do with a one way clutch system. spins freely one way (engine rotation), and grabs the other (against engine rotation).

 

so then its what? a centrifugal clutch with a one way bearing engaging other way? wouldnt that just spin when the centrifugal clutch kicks in? it still dont make sense to me anyways haha...

 

if you were to pull the centrifugal clutch off of the crankshaft, and look at the drum, you would see the one way clutch in there. It is a set of roller bearings, with springs on one side, in a tapered housing, so as the engine turns regular, the bearings push against the spring rolling to the wider ramp, but as soon as the drum is faster, the springs push the rollers into the smaller ramp, wedging them between the ramp and the crankshaft. So it slips during regular engine rotation crankshaft turns, but the drum does not, but, as soon as the drum starts going faster than the crankshaft, the metal rollers, bite into the crankshaft, locking the 2 together, till the crank and drum are either at the same speed, or the crank is going faster.

 

oh wow, fancy haha.