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[LindenBruce]

When the lead acid batteries in my Polaris Ranger EV wire out, I spent a little extra money to convey to lithium batteries. 500 lbs. lighter!, no watering ever. Should last 4x longer as well. With lithium, you can use all the rated capacity without damaging the battery; lead acid batteries are permanently wounded by discharging past about ½ of their rated capability. Deep-discharge lead acid batteries can handle that better, still not as well as lithium batteries.

In my case, the lithium batteries were almost direct drop in, the only change I made was to the wiring and adding the charger that came with the batteries. I left the original charger wired into the EV (except to charging the lithiums) ,to avoid having to make other writing changes.

El Hefe has a three year old HuntVe with 93 miles on it. He admits he never charged it correctly and I bet he never watered the batteries either. Now the batteries are toast with several of them having split cases. Now he wants new batteries. I'm going to try and push him toward lithium's. Because it's 1300 bucks for another set of FLAs. At this rate, the Lithium's will pay back in no time. B.

 

[ArlyA]

Kawasaki Mules and John Deer. B.

Huuuuuummm, something is making those belts fail prematurely.

 

[eolesen]

We have a Honda 700-4D that I get during the week, and my wife gets on the weekends.

I fold the back seats down to get the full use of the bed to haul tools, chain saws, etc around the property, and occasionally carry logs back for the fire ring. Used it today with the winch line to pull out 20 saplings from a new parking area behind the shed, Monday it will be hauling the remnants of a 79ft pine out of the woods (snapped the trunk 10ft above ground in a wind storm...)

Last week, it pulled my dead-at-the-time skid steer on flat ground to get it out of the way for some other work being done, and its hauled loads on the 6x13 trailer we bought at TSC to carry it... Does 38mph between the property and Sonic... we did the street legal kit.

Great tool. Rough riding on trails compared to my son's Kawasaki TerrX, but we turn Sundays into Fundays with it fairly regularly.

 

[jjeff]

Huuuuuummm, something is making those belts fail prematurely.

Towing way more than it should? Aftermarket performance accessories on clutch or other drive line components, if diy possibly installed incorrectly? Only reason bringing this up is someone told me of a Yamaha sxs blowing belts after a performance clutch kit was installed. Knocking on wood but I have yet to blow a belt on any of my Yamahas ultramatic stock Cvts in 20+ yrs of running them.

 

[ArlyA]

Towing way more than it should? Aftermarket performance accessories on clutch or other drive line components, if diy possibly installed incorrectly? Only reason bringing this up is someone told me of a Yamaha sxs blowing belts after a performance clutch kit was installed. Knocking on wood but I have yet to blow a belt on any of my Yamahas ultramatic stock Cvts in 20+ yrs of running them.

Here are pictures of machines I operated and all they ever did was tow for there lives. None had anything done to there drive lines, except maintenance.