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That's a great method Big Red.
Honestly, air bags on the truck or no suspension at all on the truck I can feel when the weight shifts to the tongue on many different trailers and many different items, then tie it down.
Probably just some of my old world neanderthal methods.
Agree with most of above. I have the clunk and would still buy this machine. The forum is invaluable for surfacing the known issues to Polaris, I know from my past history with a different forum that they use these forums to reverse engineer and correct problems.
After all the 1500 is the...
Sorry but the answer you don't want to hear is how I have been loading excavators, dozers, and the numerous toys for 45 years and has always worked.
With the 1500 I back it on until I see the weight shift to the tongue and strap it in place.
For a perfect science get ball scale as you suggest.
Unless Polaris decides to address it no one will hear their official diagnoses, if they released a bulletin without a plan to rectify, it could make a case for liability.
As for root cause, when I took mine apart the tolerances between the drive hub and the axle end splines were ridiculously...
Doesn't seem to matter if you own a single or double cab, both have reported it within this thread. It is truly random so hopefully you will be spared this annoyance.
I lost all my confidence years ago in them with a heat issue on the 700's, they never did publicly acknowledge or fix it. If you had a 700 that you rode much and did inot nstall a fan blowing on the engine you stood a great chance of the engine shrouds behind your legs having a hole melt...
Ours is mid 24 with it but there are numerous early 24's that are clunkless. Clubins post above is the first report I have read from a 25, I figured they had corrected it.
This is the first I have read anything pertaining to steering problems. There is always going to be a small percentage of defective parts get out into the system, hopefully that's what happened with you and this is a one off. Glad they fixed it
SADLY, no one exactly knows. Maybe not even popo.
Some here with some milage have no clunk, mine started at 200 miles and is silenced with Loctite. Others have had Loctite with no help and some got new axles and still live with it.
50k popo, figure it out and fix it
I had mine apart to install a amplified antenna for FM reception.
The are torx screws on the top of the center panel and you also have to pop the switch cluster out near the bottom to access two more torx screws. Took me a while to find the bottom screws
I still feel Polaris had a bad batch of left side axles got past QC. There really aren't that many first year machines with this annoying issue.
I sure wish Honda had interest in building a machine like this, we wouldn't be discussing it, they would already be implementing a plan to...