Broken steering stop?

Alaskanindigo · Mar 17, 2018

I went into my bars at full turn with my chest and heard an audible snap. The steering still seems fine maybe a little looser not sure. Does anyone know what might of broken if anything? It's a 15 pro, thanks in advance.

Sheetmetalfab · Mar 18, 2018

Alaskanindigo said:
I went into my bars at full turn with my chest and heard an audible snap. The steering still seems fine maybe a little looser not sure. Does anyone know what might of broken if anything? It's a 15 pro, thanks in advance.

Plastic steering block.
It breaks and the aluminum strap keeps the broken pieces in place.

You have to pull the console to access.

Alaskanindigo · Mar 18, 2018

Yup, definitely the culprit, thanks. Should I replace with stock setup from dealer or aftermarket? Don't really wanna wait for something ordered.

Sheetmetalfab · Mar 18, 2018

Alaskanindigo said:
Yup, definitely the culprit, thanks. Should I replace with stock setup from dealer or aftermarket? Don't really wanna wait for something ordered.

Anchorage Yamaha/Polaris might have oft racing billet replacements in stock.
Or just buy a stocker ($12 each) and order some upgraded ones.

Alaskanindigo · Mar 18, 2018

Sheetmetalfab said:
Anchorage Yamaha/Polaris might have oft racing billet replacements in stock.
Or just buy a stocker ($12 each) and order some upgraded ones.

Right on, I'll call around tomorrow, I'm gonna weld and reshape the steel triangle piece on shaft it's a little mushroomed in. I wonder if it's better to have that plastic bushing break as opposed to something more serious with the billet stuff? I'm guessing the reviews have all been good with the oft?

Sheetmetalfab · Mar 18, 2018

Alaskanindigo said:
Right on, I'll call around tomorrow, I'm gonna weld and reshape the steel triangle piece on shaft it's a little mushroomed in. I wonder if it's better to have that plastic bushing break as opposed to something more serious with the billet stuff? I'm guessing the reviews have all been good with the oft?

The plastic will probably save your overstructure.

The oft are definitely solid, i ran the happy face ones on my pro. As they were slightly cheaper and had vertical adjustment to take out that slop also.

http://happyfacepp.com/steering-post-bushing-polaris-pro/

Octanee · Mar 18, 2018

Make sure to install the blocks the right way though lol. Previous owner of my sled didn't so my steering post had about a 1/4-1/2 of an inch of up pull slop.

Alaskanindigo · Mar 18, 2018

Sheetmetalfab said:
The plastic will probably save your overstructure.

The oft are definitely solid, i ran the happy face ones on my pro. As they were slightly cheaper and had vertical adjustment to take out that slop also.

http://happyfacepp.com/steering-post-bushing-polaris-pro/

You had me at saving over structure! The happy face do like nice, I'll just pick up stock, the slop doesn't bother me, easy enough to replace.

This spring snow tends to get me in trouble, back in 2010 this same week I went into my bars and cracked my ribs, ended my season I swore I was gonna get a tekvest, never did.

Alaskanindigo · Mar 18, 2018

Octanee said:
Make sure to install the blocks the right way though lol. Previous owner of my sled didn't so my steering post had about a 1/4-1/2 of an inch of up pull slop.

Right on, will do, I was riding with a guy who had the adjustable cat bars. After hearing the snap he didn't offer a good reference cause his still had more slop in all directions.

Alaskanindigo · Mar 20, 2018

It looked like their was some white lithium grease on these bushings, would automotive wheel bearing grease work just as well?

SRXSRULE · Mar 20, 2018

Alaskanindigo said:
It looked like their was some white lithium grease on these bushings, would automotive wheel bearing grease work just as well?

The lithium is low temp grease, the automotive grease is not low temp (unless you happen to have some really nice syn stuff). Standard chassis / wheel bearing grease cloud cause increased steering effort in low temps.

Alaskanindigo · Mar 20, 2018

SRXSRULE said:
The lithium is low temp grease, the automotive grease is not low temp (unless you happen to have some really nice syn stuff). Standard chassis / wheel bearing grease cloud cause increased steering effort in low temps.

Makes sense, thanks, I'm gonna roll the dice with what I had in garage.

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