Clunk discussion

[oneal]

I got new axles and the dealer applied loctite to them. Let it sit for a couple days to let the loctite cure. My machine still clunks. Not as bad as it was, but it’s still doing it.

That is so disappointing, I hoped they had figured it out with a solid cure.

0ne detail that still doesn't make sense on JUST an axle replacement. The excessive tolerance of the splines is either the axle diameter is too small , the hub bore is too big, the splines are not equally cut, or a combination of both.
For folks like yourself that have lived with the clunk for numerous months and the clunk noise emits from the male and female spline banging back and forth I feel it would wear on the outer spline as well which is the drive hub. I anticipated the "clunk cure" would be new axles and hubs.
Loctite is meant to fill gaps of SLIGHT tolerance issues, I think the reason it worked for me and a small handful of others is because it was applied early before the splines had time to wear on each other.

 

[Mr.C]

I agree, I don’t think just axles is the fix. And I think the loctite thing is a joke. I was told that the axles that were installed are the new part number axles. But he wasn’t quite sure why the part number changed.

I figured, I’m just gonna keep driving it and bring it up whenever it’s in there. That way down the road if there’s ever in issue, I have some sort of documentation.

 

[oneal]

I agree, I don’t think just axles is the fix. And I think the loctite thing is a joke. I was told that the axles that were installed are the new part number axles. But he wasn’t quite sure why the part number changed.

I figured, I’m just gonna keep driving it and bring it up whenever it’s in there. That way down the road if there’s ever in issue, I have some sort of documentation.

I agree, keep a log

 

[Big Red]

I still can't believe a year later this is still going on. Polaris should be better than that!