Hello John Talley here from Partzilla.com. Today i'm going to show
you how to replace the belt on our 2015 Polaris RZR 900S. It's not necessary to
take the tire off, but I want to go ahead and lift it up, get the tire out of
the way, so you can really see what I'm doing. So let me get a couple of tools
and I'll show you how to get it done.
All right guys this is gonna be a skill level one, but it is a solid one so you
really need to pay attention what you're doing in there. Alright, as far as the
tools that you're going to need, let's go over that real quick.
As always 3/8 ratchet, a couple of different 3/8 extensions, and then you're
gonna need an 8 and a 15 millimeter socket, and then a 10 millimeter wrench.
Beyond that as always a good torque wrench. If you would, reference our
exploded diagrams. That'll give you a very clear picture of where everything
is that you may potentially need to order for your machine. So once you've
got your tools and your parts together we can go over there and I can show you
how to get it done. Alright let's start off by getting this zerk fitting out of
the way. Now we just need to remove all these bolts for the cover itself.
Now it should just lift off with a little coercion.
Looks like she's had water in there a couple of times, and if
you know that you've ingested water on yours,
there's your drain hole right here. Plus I can see a little bit of damage right
here when the previous belt evidently flew apart inside. You can see where it
damaged the outside of the back cover right here. The other thing I'm looking
for is the condition of the seal. Toward the back of the cover, I can see where
it's a little bit ripped up, so I think I'm going to go ahead and replace that
while I'm here. Alright this belt actually doesn't seem
to be in that bad of shape. We're going to go ahead and take it all the way off
and really inspect it. Now to do that on a non EBS model like this one, you just
need to loosen up this driven clutch bolt.
Alright, but now you can get them to separate and you can just walk it off
from the bottom turning it counterclockwise. Now you want to make
notice of which direction the the writing was going. because when
a belt is brand new, you can put it on either direction. it's just
once it gets worn in, that's the way it has to be reinstalled if you were going
to reuse it. Now what I'm looking for here is I'm bending the belt is any
cracks. First I'm gonna look at the outside, then we're gonna do the same
thing to the inside. Want to make sure there's no broken off sections anywhere--
or any cracks. This belt seems to be in pretty good shape. Since we're right here
let's go ahead and pull off the driven clutch and take a look at the sheaves.
Alright so what I'm looking for here is to make sure that the surfaces are
not glazed over. And this one's got a little bit of pitting on it, nothing too
terrible. What I like to do if there is any type of glazing that is built up in
the surface is to get a scotch brite pad and just a little bit of brake contact
cleaner and just re rough it up so to speak. I mean it's almost like you're, I
don't want to say scoring, but when you rebuild an engine you hone the cylinder that way
the the piston ring is actually seat into the cylinder walls and it's kind of
a similar similar process that we're doing here except we're actually
introducing a rubber belt in here and it's going to leave part of its rubber
on the surface of the sheave and that would give it a lot better engagement
and it'll pull stronger if you break it in properly. So, let me get this cleaned
up and then we'll also clean the drive clutch.
And the other side.
That one looks good to go. Alright now, remember that X needs to end up in the correct
orientation with the other one so it's over here. There. X there, and one there.
Alright, for the drive clutch we can actually clean it up in place. It'll take
a little bit longer but it's not absolutely necessary to pull it off.
The other thing you want to feel for is in the very center there's a bearing, a
spherical bearing. I want to make sure that's moving and it it is. It feels
smooth. I'm just rotating it with my tips of my fingers. Alright
got it cleaned back up, let's go ahead and get our driven clutch back on. Get these
bolts started then pull back on it, open it back up. Got our new belt and install it
where Polaris is actually going from left to right. Get it over the driven edge. You just want
to walk it up. Now when you're getting ready to tighten this back down, you want
to push the belt out to the outer edges. Otherwise, it'll get pinched as we
tighten this bolt back. All right what I did was just put it in gear, now I've got
somebody up inside holding the brakes. Now we can go ahead and torque this down.
Once again, make sure you walk that out, walk the belt out to the far edge. There
we go. Alright now let's go ahead and pull out
an old seal so we can replace it.
Yeah, it was looking pretty rough there. It was actually missing a section, so
definitely needed to be replaced. And now we want to put it back in. A little
white line going to the inside. A lot easier to take out then and put back in.
As you're putting it in make sure you're laying it in flat. Don't let it twist on
you. Now let's get our cover back on.
When you're doing this, don't tighten them down to get all of them at least
started. Make sure it's actually centered and in the groove properly.
Notice where I'm holding the wrench all the way up at the head because this is
just plastic. You grab it out here? You end up stripping it. Alright, next let's
go and get our zerk fitting back in there. And that should do it right there.
Alright guys, that pretty much finishes this one up. All I need to do now is
just remount the tire, make sure that I torque it down to 120 foot pounds when I
do so. Well listen, you're gonna need to go through a break-in procedure now if
if you just replaced your belt. So in other words, go easy on it for about the
first 20 or 30 miles. Try not to run it wide open,
give it some time to run all the way through its range, don't tow anything,
don't load it down really heavy. That way, you'll get the most life out of your
belt. Listen if you need any of the parts that
we used to do this, why don't you come see us at Partzilla.com and we can get you
taken care of. If you have any questions or comments,
leave in the section below and I'll my best to answer them. Until next time we
just want to say thanks for watching.