The seal was finally delivered and I was able to finish up the trans today.
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Similar to the front, I added EBC pads, Rhino 2.0 axles and limit straps. I waffled on high clearance trailing arms and decided on leaving the stock ones for now. They’re on my future maybe list along with diff upgrades. We’ll see how it does first.
Here are a few observations from the shake down ride today where I ran a couple miles through all the gears and broke in the pads.
1)The halo sway bar is thicker than stock and I set it up on the tightest hole. This took away much of the wallowing in corners in comfort mode. Great upgrade so far.
2) I’m running (relatively) light 33s and was concerned losing bottom end and handling with the additional weight over stock. Neither came true. It handles just as well on trails and whoops - or at least a tilled cornfield simulating small whoops - and accelerates better in high gear. Mathematically it’s got a ~4% reduction from stock so in theory it should. I typically run <60mph so I don’t have a concern with any potential loss of top speed.
3) The Ace 325 and Ranger low gear reductions are amazing! I was always confused as to why Polaris chose to gear low and high the way they did as it seems like there is way too much overlap in the functional speeds. With the reduction it’s a different animal now, and low is good up to 15-18mph. It’ll go faster but is out of the sweet spot. High gear, as noted above, is slightly more peppy. In my opinion the Ranger low should be the factory gearing.
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That’s all for now. I’ve got two short trips planned, one forest trails and the other more technical, before Moab. If it’s as good in the wild as it was in the yard today I think it’s ready to go!
Similar to the front, I added EBC pads, Rhino 2.0 axles and limit straps. I waffled on high clearance trailing arms and decided on leaving the stock ones for now. They’re on my future maybe list along with diff upgrades. We’ll see how it does first.
Here are a few observations from the shake down ride today where I ran a couple miles through all the gears and broke in the pads.
1)The halo sway bar is thicker than stock and I set it up on the tightest hole. This took away much of the wallowing in corners in comfort mode. Great upgrade so far.
2) I’m running (relatively) light 33s and was concerned losing bottom end and handling with the additional weight over stock. Neither came true. It handles just as well on trails and whoops - or at least a tilled cornfield simulating small whoops - and accelerates better in high gear. Mathematically it’s got a ~4% reduction from stock so in theory it should. I typically run <60mph so I don’t have a concern with any potential loss of top speed.
3) The Ace 325 and Ranger low gear reductions are amazing! I was always confused as to why Polaris chose to gear low and high the way they did as it seems like there is way too much overlap in the functional speeds. With the reduction it’s a different animal now, and low is good up to 15-18mph. It’ll go faster but is out of the sweet spot. High gear, as noted above, is slightly more peppy. In my opinion the Ranger low should be the factory gearing.
That’s all for now. I’ve got two short trips planned, one forest trails and the other more technical, before Moab. If it’s as good in the wild as it was in the yard today I think it’s ready to go!
