I recently purchased a new 2005 Polaris Sportsman and I am having trouble of water getting into the transmission/belt drive. When driving through water, the water level is over the round transmission housing but not higher than that, and it is easily passable water b/c I was following two other Sportsman's that did not have the problem. We were riding at River Ranch and several times I had to stop to pull the drain plug and anywhere from a cup to two cups of water came out and again the other two machine did not have this problem riding the same trail.
I spoke to the local dealer and they did change the gasket around the housing hoping this was the problem but again today I had the same problem going through water holes, but again I am not sinking the machine, just easy passable high water trails and the deep part is no more than 5-10 feet long (short passage). I have rode and seen other Polaris machines go through deeper water and I have never have this problem before.
Has anyone else had this problem? Any solutions?
Thanks,
Jay
I could never do this on the my machine but should be able too.