This is my first post. I just wanted to get some input from anyone that owns or has owned a 660Grizzly. I bought an 03' last November and absolutely love it. Let me know if you have had any problems with them. Thanks.

 

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Good Luck!

 

I have had my Grizzly 660 since last October and absolutely love it. Not a single problem!

 

dude i dont know how many miles you have gone yet but i can give you some tips to save later issues i ride mine with several others start with header wrap wrap it all the to the muffler, buy the side panels for 04 model much better ventilation for a problem yamaha claims they dont have but wait till you see what they have done to them easy fix snap off and snap on , remove the little ball in the check valve on the fuel cap as long as you use the tube you dont need it anyway this will help with vapor lock issue another easy solution to an aggrevating problem an absolutely great machine it just has afew quirks that yamaha is taking their sweet time to work out

 

One more thing to watch is the servo motors on the front four-wheel drive. They tend to go out. We love our grizzlies (got two of em) but have had servo problems with both. Don't engage the 4x4/diff lock while moving very fast. this is the fastest way to shell these servos and they aren't very tough to begin with.

~HoundDog

 

No boiling gas issues or vapor lock here. The only probs mine has had is it sputters at high elevation (9500 ft+). Also, as of late, it's difficult to steer. Drives like I'm always on asphault, when I'm not. I've only noticed it at high elevation too. I have about 1000 miles on it.
I'll likely get a 2005 Grizz and sell my EX.

 

padz,

Are you sure its not stuck in 4x4? This is a common indication that the servo is going out.

~HoundDog

 

That's what it seems like, but I can still power slide all over the place and I can get the rear tires only to break loose. How/where can I get a new one? Also, how much $$?

 

blugrizz, when you wrapped your exhaust pipe, did you remove the heat shielding from the pipe, wrap it, and then reinstall the heat shield on the pipe? Or did you just remove the heat shield, wrap the pipe, and leave the heat shield off the pipe? I don't know how thick the heat wrap is, will it fit between the pipe and heat shield and will the heat shields fit back on after you wrap the pipe?

Thanks for the info.

 

Hey dude, when I wrapped my pipe, I removed all the heat shielding. It is a royal bitch to get that crap back on there too. For the places the bolts screw in (which are mounted to the pipe itself), I cut a spare piece of the heat shield and stuck it on the pipe, then wrapped on around it with the main stuff to hold it in place. As long as you have a good tight wrap going, its not going to move any. The shield that covers where the pipe splits wasn't too bad, but those clamps were tough to get back on.

Now I have that HMF pipe on there that doesn't use the factory clamps, and its real easy. Almost makes me mad that I went to all that trouble before only to take it off a few months later. The way I did it was to start at the header at the engine and go around good an clamp it. Then wrap it to where it goes to one pipe and cut the wrap. Then start again on the other pipe and go till you overlap the original at the junction. Then just take that same strand as far back as you can go til you run out of stuff. I made it back past the carb on mine.

I swear, that crap was $40 for something real simple, but it did the trick, because I have never had one heat problem since (only had one before, but I wrapped it the next week). Even in the 100 degree weather we have been having, no problems. I also backed the bottom of the gas tank with that foam/reflective aluminum tape and thats all I have done. Never cut any holes in the side panels. It worked, cheap and effective.

Of course, we should have to do this at all with a new quad, but I would rather drop $50 in some cheap fix stuff than take a bath on a trade in for something else.