Ulfthednar

well . . I wouldn't mind one fir thrashing . . . I'm pretty content with the CFmoto 800 . . really content. But a lighter quicker one would be a blast . . so I could see how they could be a problem.

Yeah . . Ive got a 96 fourtrax here of my bros. It runs fine +/- tuning and tweaking and some odds and ends repaired or fabbed up (theft recovery) It has the opposite problem. Ran it up my hill . . turned around . . ran it down the hill . . . Almost ended in the ravine on the other side of the road . . . The brakes worked fine for him . . on flat ground. Told him NO ONE was touching it til I got the brakes fixed.

kinda new to quads but seen the same thing on all sorts of vehicles . . .

Good point. Wheels built to adjust offset, while they can affect torsion/stress on parts are never as bad as pavement princess spacers.

Seriously . . . make sure your turning it the right direction. Then you need a spanner or special wrench to secure the yoke. You might get by with a pipe (F style) wrench, but you can probably find a yoke tool that fits that. Then a long breaker bar preferably and impact if all else fails. Not sure what it is on but I have encountered reverse thread Yoke/pinion nuts in other applications. On full size trucks they hit 150 ftlbs of torque and up. Not sure what the torque is on this but . . you need to lock up that yoke and stabilize the machine. It probably isn't stuck. just needs more grunt. Its tight quarters in there so the longer the handle and the finer the teeth in your ratchet head if thats what your using, the better the leverage your going to have. but yeah, make sure its strapped down and secured.

Besides a winch that is. Im not new to wandering around in the woods but new to doing it on an atv. Ive already equipped an axe, tree strap and clevis and am looking for a shovel. whats been your most valuable piece of gear outside of a strap and winch?

Ive been wanting one for awhile now. Finally just said the hell with it, I aint getting younger and I'm pretty sure Im going to ride it to death. Just like my motorcycles. so far, Its kinda like my Harley, except built for the woods . . .

Just a question .. is the rear end froze or is the brake stuck?

"Wolf" in North Idaho, Ulfthednar to all ya'll heathens out there. New to ATVs but not real new to life. Just picked up a 2022 CFMoto CForce 800XC. I've been wrenching on my own vehicles since my first bicycle fifty years ago. I have found in the long run that the brand name in most cases has less to do with than the idiot wielding the wrench. Built up several trucks, built my 80 80 FLH Electra Glide out of milk crates, wrenched on a lot of other stuff in between. Ive even Trail road my 73 shovel in places that would give a kid with a BMX second thoughts. Anyway, Ive wanted an ATV for awhile and its already handy around the house and a lot of fun out on the trails. From a point of view of working on things for quite awhile . . I am not disappointed in the least yet. Not with ATV riding or the machine . . . My back yard runs up to about an 8 or 9 pitch (for ya carpenters out there) and rips right up it. This thing pulls hills and handles pretty damn good once you get the drifties going. Its close to 1,000 lbs so I dont really see it as a jumping machine, but it handled a pretty good bunch of whoopties out on an MX/ATV trail. Once I got the timing down of the machine it was a sheer blast. Id have more pics of that day, but every time I stopped the bald face wasps tried to jack my machine and lunch.