Saturday the nine-year-old belt came apart on the last hill into Four Corners. I pulled the fiber out of the outlet duct and drove it home. Then I put a new one in.
The Swap
Cover off. Old fluff still clinging to the inner housing lip. New belt on the Polaris primary and the TEAM secondary, and blue paint on the primary nut so future me knows I actually torqued it.
Logged it in wrenchtron as a belt replacement. utvtron signs into the same Google account now, so the garage and the maintenance log are one machine again.
The Ride
ThermoPro in the cargo recess behind the seats, three tips live: Engine bay, Clutch, Ambient. Clutch tip in the outlet duct, where it belongs.
Eighteen minutes, 7.4 miles, easy loop. Not River Road to Amsterdam, and definitely not 65 up the hill. The clutch outlet peaked at 130°, climbed and then just sat there. Saturday’s shred hit 164° on that same channel. Boring is good.
One hiccup: around nine minutes in, the app dropped for a minute and a half. I hit Resume, reconnected the probe, and it kept it all as one ride.
New belt handles a normal evening loop just fine. More miles before anything spicy.
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