What Did You Do To Your Kodiak 700 Today?

Did the Grizzly clutch weight swap today. Also added a .5 MM shim. Didn't notice as much difference as I thought I would when accelerating, but Im still in the break in period so still taking it easy. I did notice that the engine braking was more aggressive, at least it seemed like it.

Changed out the garbage OEM starter. The starter had stuck on me before but I managed to get it spinning on the bench by jumping it a few times with my truck battery. I put it back in and it worked fine for a few months before finally shitting the bed last week. Going to pull the original apart to see if it can be rebuilt. I suspect the bonding agent on the magnets has failed.

Vincent said:

Until they are mounted and aired up, you won't get good measurments (height, width ) to compare to your stock tires.

Here's my new 27x9 Reptile tires beside 26x9 Growlers . Unmouted in the first pic and mounted and aired up in the second. You can see the Reptile's profile completly changed. View attachment 11652
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Looks like they "thinned out" about 1-1/2". Wasn't sure how much an 8 ply tire would change. Im not in a big hurry to get them mounted, so maybe in the next couple of weeks.

I have a couple thousand ft of gravel drive way I put in about 15 years ago I first put down a Oregon dept ground cloth then about 3 inches of 1 1/2 in rock then 3" of 3/4 minus. The grass grew into the edges and center over the years. The ground cloth did it's job keeping the dirt out of the rock from below. I bought a gravel rascal pro to bring it back. My Kodiak 700 has the added 2" receiver , I used the pin type hitch to connect to the quad not a ball as recommended by the company. It brought my drive back to new condition I have now groomed my driveway twice It is now possible to keep it like new in a matter of up and down the drive in 6 to 8 passes. Gravel rascal pro with the actuator which raises and lowers automatically at $4000 is a bargain the Kodiak 700 pulls it with no issues the gravel rascal is built to last

Put the plow on and took care of my driveway along with the neighbors.

There was only around 4" of snow but it was wet and heavy and I'm getting too old to shovel it. The Kodiak performed just like it should of and I never even put it into 4x4, that will come.

JimP said:

Put the plow on and took care of my driveway along with the neighbors.

There was only around 4" of snow but it was wet and heavy and I'm getting too old to shovel it. The Kodiak performed just like it should of and I never even put it into 4x4, that will come.

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Jim, there's no swearing on this site... I may have to ban you for using that 4 letter "S" word..... It's still too early in the year.... I'm not ready yet..... Lol

CanadianKodiak700 said:

Jim, there's no swearing on this site... I may have to ban you for using that 4 letter "S" word..... It's still too early in the year.... I'm not ready yet..... Lol

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You know, I thought the same thing. This is the earliest that I have put the plow on. I am usually good until after Thanksgiving.

JimP said:

You know, I thought the same thing. This is the earliest that I have put the plow on. I am usually good until after Thanksgiving.

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We have little cue’s from Mother Nature way down here in South Carolina… gonna be a real winter this year!

JimP said:

You know, I thought the same thing. This is the earliest that I have put the plow on. I am usually good until after Thanksgiving.

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Jim do you think you could take your plow off just long enough to get my snows on?! Lol

Coder said:

Jim do you think you could take your plow off just long enough to get my snows on?! Lol

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Oh it's coming back off, I have a elk hunt coming up.

That's the the nice thing with the front mount plow, it goes on and comes off so easy.

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JimP said:

You know, I thought the same thing. This is the earliest that I have put the plow on. I am usually good until after Thanksgiving.

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Well technically you did make it after Thanksgiving...... Our Canadian thanksgiving was earlier this month. Lol

Finally pulled out the dead 2500# Warn winch and installed the HF Badlands ZXR 3500 winch (early Christmas from my Wife & Daughter!). I think I'll really like the 15' wired switch that came with it as it'll make spooling the winch back up easier to do by myself and not end up with a rat's nest of cable!

I put the plow mount back on for the winter today. Was procrastinating bigtime thanks to the snow free winter we've had thus far. Today is our first real dumping of snow. Not bad for it being almost mid January.

We haven't had a real dumping but a lot of smaller storms with 2 to 4 inches of the white cold stuff. It will then warm up enough or start to rain to where the snow is gone by the next day.

Today we got 3 inches of real wet snow and it is almost gone on the sunny areas.

But it sure is nice to jump on the Kodiak and clear the driveway along with 1/4 mile of neighbors sidewalks in a short time.

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We got a massive dumping of snow Monday night. There was approximately 50cm (20 inches) down. It was double what was predicted. I didn't think the Kodiak would do it as the snow was 3 feet deep in my driveway but, it pushed it with a vengeance. Took a while longer but did it none the less. I'm always impressed how these machines can push snow.