RZR Belt

anyone change the drive belt on their RZR? I want to put a new one on and need to know if I need special tools and or instructions. Thanks

No special tools needed. I had to put a new belt on at 1100 miles.

I keep a spare belt, tie rod end and 2 stock front sway bar rods.

You might as well go ahead and buy another seal too...

simoniz, what kind of seal.

He means the seal for the clutch cover. I had a peplace my belt at 1500 miles the day before thanksgiving. But then, I'm kinda hard on stuff as I'm putting 36 horses to the ground!!!!

oh, the gasket

Bubba, you would just have to have Dwayne and myself to change it anyway!!!!!!!LOL

Go with another stock belt or other?

Mine shredded in Windrock thought I had a bad trasmission the way it sounded / acted

If you need it, I have the repair manual in a PDF file that I could send you for the asking....

3012red,

Any preference to replacement belt brand/style? I smoked the stock belt but it still pulls! Figure I had better change it be fore I get left in the woods. Thanks

Myself I would go back with OEM belt.

Stealth wrote:

Myself I would go back with OEM belt.

I've only had my RZR about 3 months and only put about 350 miles on it and it already shredded the belt... polaris just told me that it was from not using low range when i needed to and it heated up a spot on the belt and weakened it but i have been pretty good about using low if i stay below 10 mph or for pulling.. i'm hoping it was just a bad belt b/c it's gonna get expensive having to replace every 350 miles... anyone have any input or suggestions that maybe i'm doing wrong in operation?

I have over 5,000 miles on my RZR and I have only replaced the belt one time and it was still in good shape and I kept it for a spare.I don't play in mud holes which I think that will cause you problems which you can heat up your belt doing that. I'm not saying that's what you do but I'm just throwing it out there for info.

I haven't really been in any really deep mudholes because i'm weary of getting the belt wet since i dont have a snorkel but i'm thinking maybe it was just a bad belt but we will see... thanks for the info!

this snow riding is hard on the belt also.

That's actually when i broke it riding in the snow! Maybe that had something to do with it

if it sounds like it running hard in high shift to low and run high RPM

ok thanks for the info guys it just sucked that the one time we actually got a decent snow down here my belt broke so i was

Hey bud, be careful when washing it. The exhaust snorkle is in a bad place. When your spraying under the bed alot of folks get water in through that snorkle.

Polaris dealer said following the break in procedure for the belt is critical.

I'll keep all of that in mind

Polaris recommends you bring the rzr back in after 500 miles for the 1st service. 1 of the things they check is belt wear. It's not unusual for them to have to realign the belt/clutch. Take it down to Carolina Polaris High Point store & let Jason check it out. He's shimmed/readjusted a bunch of them.

It's funny you say that Randy because it hasn't been 2 weeks ago since i took it in to the high point store for it's first service and now i'm having to buy a belt

ncrzrstealth09 wrote:

It's funny you say that Randy because it hasn't been 2 weeks ago since i took it in to the high point store for it's first service and now i'm having to buy a belt

Sorry man, I don't have a come back on that 1 unless somebody other than Jason did it. I'm sure they'll make it right though.

I think a guy named Heath did it. I went up there and took the belt and talked to Dustin Fulk whom i know personally and he gave me a discount on a new belt but i just hope i have better luck with this one if not i'm taking it up there for them to check it out because obviously there is something wrong if it does it again that soon b/c i dont put it through a lot of mud or anything really abusive or i haven't so far lol

Jason is a great mech., I can't speak of the other guy!

I had maybe 600-700 miles on my stock belt n it started slipping on me...but i creeped it to my house...I went out riding around n pretty much rode it about 6 or 7 miles back to my house on a burnt up belt...taking my time of course...but the very next day I bought a rzr s belt since it had more rubber n deeper grooves n haven't had a problem with it now.