As you don't say what, exactly, was wrong with your engine that made it necessary to replace it, it's very difficult to answer your questions; i.e., what parts broke or failed?

Cheers

 

http://www.rzrforums.net/engine-drivetrain/54317-engine-blown.html

That was my orginal post of what happened.

Like I said not against them just trying to figure out if its something that we are doing wrong that makes this happen. Or is it just one of those things where it was going to happen no matter if I had put snorkels on it or not.

I loved having snorkels on mine and want to put them back on. However I do not want to blow another engine.

 

I have had snorks on my RzR since the day I bought it. I have MANY friends that have them on theirs. I'm now having to rebuild my motor in my rzr 800 due to MY stupidity. I honestly do not think snorkel systems have anything to do with rebuilding a motor, again that's just my .02.
However, after putting snorks and a aftermarket exhaust I found that I HAD TO add a programmer to it. I chose the PC5 and had it tuned. Before adding it, I found my bike to run like crap due to it running too fat.
Since adding the PC5 it ran like a champ until I blew it up in a mud hole. "Pin it to win it", that's how I was riding it.
I hope this helps and good luck with your motor rebuild.

 

I have mine snorkeled halfway to the roof and my friend has his snorkeled a little higher than mine. I have ridden in water up to my chest however my RZR is not that old. I have not had any problems with mine nor has he so far. I know some people who have theirs snorkeled to the roof and they have had theirs for a while and no problems

 

myself and my buddy both have ran snokles on our 800's for the past few months. we drive it how we want.

neither of us have had any issues at all.


i do have a question for the OP.

did u take it in for waranty with the snorkles still on?? or return it to stock?

 

No I took the snokels and the utv inc air filter off of it. Then took the bed off of one of our other rzr and put on mine that way they could not see the holes cut in the bed either. They are very picky about this they took pictures and had to send them in and then a PO PO guy came by to look at the machine before they approved any work on it.

 

I know there are a ton of folks that run them.....guess my real question is with snorkel can you still drive the crap out of it?

When we are on the sand its wide open....is it be pushing it to hard or do others drive it the saem way with snorkels?

 

we dont have any sand. but theres periods of time where we will run wide open and a s hard as we can for 20-25 mins. creek crossing to creek crossing.

neither of us have had any issues (YET) 400-500 miles with the snorkles

 

Mines an 08. Snorkeled it 12 hours after I bought it. Run it hard, raced it in the pits. And now just mud/trail ride. I have the utv inc sealed intake, ran stock box for a while, then a kn on top of snork w/o the air box, then UNI in place of kn. but sucked it up and bought the utv inc. no problems here. It's been upside down in about 6' of water about 3 years ago. Took it home Flushed it all out very throughly. And then some. Still runs like a champ. I do change oil more than what is recommended. And check after every weekend of riding.

As long as u compensate for the mods, it shouldn't matter. I've got looney tuned duals and a pcIII.

However there are those freak deals that do happen.

Best of luck to ur decision.

 

Question for you what did you use to connect the snorkel pipe to the utv inc canister? They gave me a large hose however its to large for the 2 inch pipe used for snorkel. The two are diffrent sizes and I never found a great solution. I bought another ruber coupling from home depot and put the one they gave inside that to make it work.

 

I don't see the connection, i.e. snorkels = blown engine.

 

Ok I am leaning towards the fact that it must have been something that was going to happen no matter if I had snorkeled it or not. As one person said probably a bad rod and it was going to fly apart anyhow.

I will start on installing my snorkel system back on the machine.

 

I dont think the snorkels had anything to do with your motor blowing.

For your intake issue, try getting a standard 2" rubber coupler and heating up one end with a heat gun/hair dryer and stretching it over the intake. Its worth a shot.

 

The hose they give is a 3" hose. I used did what you two
Guys have done. I cut down the hose to be a lil longer than "neck" on intake and used a 3"x2" CT (rubber reducing coupling) to the 2" PVC pipe. I did not have to silicone mine. I tourqed the s/s bands down to 65 ft lbs. I then cranked up the machine and blocked off the air intake snorkel and it holds suction for as long as it is blocked.

 

Well I did it I reinstalled the snorkel kit last night and the UTV inc filter so we will see what happens....I hope you folks are right and that had nothing to do with the blown engine.

 

How long was it before u installed the utv air intake? How long did you have the stock system on for? Dusty conditions? Did it ever burn oil? Has it ever been sank?

 

It was all stock for about 6 months. I did sucks some water into the factory intake box one time.

Did a full clean out and change of fluids pulled plugs blew out cylinders the whole nine yards.

I had the snorkels and utv inc kit on for maybe two weeks and thats when it happened. Had never burned oil at all.

 

Dang. I can understand your frustration. There's a lot of ppl who mud/water ride with snorkels with other utvs and atv's with no issue. Myself being one. Hope you don't have any more problems for sure, and hope I didn't just jinx myself!!!

 

Where are you finding sand to ride in around here?

 

Not sand as in sand dunes.....I am talking about red river sand.

In fact I just finished sweeping up a five gallon bucket of it from my warehouse floor from the machines.

 

I have about 800 miles on mine snorkeled no problems for the same reason because of all the dang sand had to change the filter out every 2 ride about 150 miles or so. It sucked now I can get around 400 out of one just cleaning it.

 

Just noticed your location! Ain't too far away. It's nice up your way.

 

I haven't heard about the engine problems, but I as told about clutches overheating and take the bearings out and tearing up belts has anyone else heard of this?

 

4 years running. No issues here.