Where the video I don’t see itJust bought a new 2020 Kodiak, seems to be making a metal to metal grinding noise for the first 20 seconds of initial startup. Anyone else heard this noise? Does it go away after break in? It started at 4 hours and I now have 10 hours on machine. There is a possibility it could be coming from air box sound could be air whistling due to choke? Video attached.
100% Agree. I've racked up 200 miles in 2 weeks on my new to me 2019 Grizz with the newish 686cc engine and it is a wonderful little power plant!!!The 686 is a highly satisfying engine in my short experience.
If I were back home in New Brunswick with my old friends, 200 miles (320km) is 3 days of exploration in the bush. We typically do 80 to 150km in a day when I travel back to visit. If this covid thing relaxes a bit more, I may get the chance to trailer the kodiak the 1500km one way and do some riding with the old gang this year, if not, gotta wait and do it next summer.200 miles in 2 weeks!! Impressed..ride on Brother.
Oh it is man, I can tell you, I have that same smile when I get back home and hit those trails with my friends. I only see them guys once a year, and it brings back old memories cruising down some of those trails. We stop for a beer at a few key places, we laugh about stupid stuff we did on bikes at each of those places when we were young.... Have a bbq lunch midway of our trip, and sometimes another midnight bbq on the way back. I'm 41 years old now, the body feels those 13 or 14 hr long trip.... But it's the only time I get with old friends so it's wiry the pain the next day.Let me tell you something Brother. Did 9 surgeries today...thought it was gonna break me. 92 yr olds with hip fractures and such. Between cases I read your description of THE LAND and saw it in my mind's eye. Realized that I had a great big dumb *** smile on my face. THANKS. I'm sure that its even better than I envisioned. Red