- While on an extended trip the angle drive became very noisey. At 1000 miles from home we didn't want to wait several days for repairs so we traded it (2017 slr) for 2018 slr. The nav system is the bomb.
Noisey Angle Drive went out.
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Any word on what actually happened to it?
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That was an expensive angle drive.
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That was an expensive angle drive.
About like the 'head light' problem on my 2015 3 days before Eureka Springs...day late to the rally but with a 2016. (the head light problem shortly after caused a recall on all of the Slingshots.)
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I completely understand.....
I used to change my worn out tires by getting a new year model truck. It was awesome the way the new tires gave the truck that "new car smell"...
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yes it was....lol....but the ash tray was full so it was time to trade anyway.
Yours came with an Ass tray?
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They all come with 'Ass trays'...
Side by side!That's what makes it fun!
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our sling is sitting at the dealers for a noisey rear end..
@airoutlaw adjusted belt tension and pivot bolt alignment to spec but the noise continued... the angle drive seal has already been replaced once and had began a slow leak again. Wondering if ours could be angle drive also? What's the symptoms of a bad angle drive?? And if that is our problem; is that a major teardown? (Could ask airoutlaw but then he speaks in terms im unaccustomed to until he says the word "ham" and "sandwich" )
We want to get the sling home to install our Welter stealth before Maggie valley. Oh the time crunch! -
This is what mine sounded like. The first video I did was only 10 sec and Polaris said it was normal. I did this video with my GoPro mounted underneath. They agreed the angle drive was bad and replaced it.
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Yep, not getting the clicking... like everyone else, got the constant gear whine. But under acceleration, the whine becomes a garbled train horn that the wife can hear in her car a half mile back. Belt cleaning, alignment, and tension adjustment has made no difference. Belt alignment adjustment fails to work as described in that swing arm fails to move any at all until pivot bolt hits maximum outside or inside travel. No unusual noises from swing arm jacked, unloaded, loaded, or on static rolling. Gear oil is good, but front seal leaking again.
Have tried everything I can possibly do other than tearing it apart. Time to let those who get paid to deal with this daily evaluate the stitchiation.
Time for some peace of mind riding...
@dangerdarrell noticed you have a hole drilled through the wall to access the tension nut...
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@airoutlaw, I just assumed it was factory. Guess they may have done it when they attempted to adjust the noise away. Didn’t work.
