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john7459

john7459

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Had an interesting problem occur at the end of the year. I put a new 1" track on at the beginning of the year and it was close to those heat exchange protectors but not quite touching. After about a thousand miles I started to notice a vibration, which upon close inspection turned out to be one of the protectors. The track had been rubbing it and broke one and loosened the other top connection rivets. It was tough to get at so I continued to drive and eventually it broke the last rivet, which now caused an interesting machine gun sound from under the tunnel as it slapped the heat exchanger with every lug that passed.....

I limped home very very slowly so as to not cause any damage. The interesting part was that as i was on the lake going 10 km/h I became impatient and started going faster. This in turn reduced the noise, so at around 60km the noise was completely gone. Its as if the entire track had shifted back so that it wasn't rubbing on the protector. Even when I slowed back down to 10km the sound was still gone.

I ended up just popping the rivets out of the bottom of the protector and pulling it off. Anyone hear of this or have any similar issues?
 

Ya its almost as if the skid frame is moving, although I checked all the bolts and they are tight. Bearing in chain case and on opposite side are good as well. That narrows out the drive shaft shifting.

After I took off the protector, went for a run and did 115 mph on the GPS.
 
Same thing happened to me with my SX so I just took the protectors out to. Funny thing is the next season I started to have track alignment problems so I took a close look at the skid and found out that the bushings in all of the pivot points were extremely wore out. After replacing them the alignment issues were gone. I am thinking that the skid was able to twist far enough that the 1" lugs came into contact with the protectors. Check your bushing (black plastic bushing) at each pivot point and I'll almost bet that they are wore out.
Mills
 
I lost both protectors on my srx this winter!!!I figure my studs must ripped it right off they where pretty close...
My skid got brand new bushings all around so I figure eithe rmy track was a lttle too loose causing it to it the protectors.
 
Bushings, makes sense. Thanks, I know they are worn, just didnt realize they could make that much of an issue.
 
SHAMARKEN said:
I lost both protectors on my srx this winter!!!I figure my studs must ripped it right off they where pretty close...
My skid got brand new bushings all around so I figure eithe rmy track was a lttle too loose causing it to it the protectors.
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X2 both are gone because of studs
 
Gagt518 said:
X2 both are gone because of studs
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I'm confused (not hard to do). Were you guys using Bender plates or something?

I trimmed the paddles on the 1" track (full width lugs) I installed in my SRX because they were rubbing but my studs are nowhere near the protectors.
 
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