Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com.
Today we're going to be working on our 2012 Polaris 900 XP.
What we're going to start with in the process of getting down to the engine there's a whole
lot of things that have to happen.
This is step one.
what I'm going to show you in this video is just how to get the seats removed, get the
center console out of the way, get the fluids drained, disconnect the battery.
And that'll set up the next video where we'll actually show you how to remove the rear box
on it.
So let me go grab a couple of tools and we'll get started.
Alright guys, let's go ahead and get these seats out of the way.
These are aftermarket seats but they actually use the same mount as the factory ones.
So it's just a lever on the backside.
Pop that and then they'll just lift out.
And the same thing for the driver's side.
Nice.
Dirt dauber nest.
Think it's been sitting up for a while?
Next, let's go ahead and get this battery disconnected.
Instead of just disconnecting it I'm going to go ahead and remove it.
I will lay odds that it is completely worn out.
We can throw it on the charger and see if it'll come back.
Personally I really doubt it.
That's your standard 10mm for the battery posts.
And then as well as the hold down strap is a 10mm.
Go ahead and just take it all the way out.
Alright, let's go ahead and get the oil drained out of this thing.
I'll be curious to see if its got any metal chunks in it.
See these little shiny specks around here as I kind of pan it around?
Those are all little pieces of what I fear is going to be the connecting rod bearings
and or the main bearings.
So this machine, it would run for a few minutes and actually lock down so, at this point I'm
thinking that whoever put it together, they didn't size the bearings correctly.
Alright guys, let's go ahead and get this cover out of the way and we're going to remove
the radiator cap.
Next, we're going to drain it.
Believe it or not, Polaris just wants you to remove this lower radiator hose.
I can go ahead and tell you it's probably going to make a pretty good mess.
Try to catch as much of this fluid as possible because it is really poisonous if you've got
small animals or kids running around it would not do them any favors.
Alright, grab that clip.
go ahead and move it down, break it loose but don't tug on it too hard.
You don't want to damage the radiator itself.
Guess I need a larger drain pan.
That's going to take me a few minutes to get this cleaned up.
Alright, we've got that mopped up so let's go ahead and reattach our hose.
There's still going to be some more, you know, radiator fluid in different pockets as we're
working our way back to the engine.
Alright guys, that pretty much wraps up let's call it the first step in this engine rebuild
process.
We've got the fluids drained, the battery disconnected.
You want to make sure you dispose of all those fluids appropriately.
Just don't dump them in your backyard or anything silly like that.
Well next we're going to attack pulling off the box and these frame extensions, the rollover
protection, get that intake out of the way and that'll basically be the next step in
this process.
So if you would, follow us over to that next video and I'll show you how to get it done.