belt slipping due to snow into clutch

[johnelway]

Yesterday, i was riding in very light snow. aroud 3.4 foot and my nytro ate a lot of snow.
The belt start slipping due to the snow into the clutch side panel.

snow seems to enter between the side panel and bottomof the body.

any ways to block the snow more than the screen into the grill?

 

[Thinice7]

There a skid plate on it? Mine did same thing last year cause factory skid disappeared

 

[raginyamaha]

schmidt bros clutch guard would probly help too...

 

[johnelway]

There a skid plate on it? Mine did same thing last year cause factory skid disappeared

yes full roest skid plate.

 

[AKrider]

When racing my Nytro the loose snow in the whoops would bash open my clutch panel and fill the clutches with snow. I used a float skid plate that covered this area. It was ugly gut did the job. I mounted it using the stock front bumper so it didn't stick out so far on the nose.

 

[johnelway]

i just removed the floating plate cause it was a nice huge shovel in the powder!!

but when i thnik about that, it really protecting the clutch panel. But i don't want the plate, need to find another solution.

i've just purchased a roll of pet screen and gorilla tape. Will try to close some hole in the hood!!

 

[Dodge Ram]

schmidt bros clutch guard would probly help too...

Nope, Does not help. Found that out when I lost my stock plate. Upgrade it. And I'll tell you what if you exploded a belt it will destroy the Schmidt guard. :-(. A lil thicker would have helped.

 

[Lee Rivers]

I did a powder trip last year with my 09RTX ..but put a double black screen on the vent on the clutch cover , just tie wrapped it on and haven't had a slipping belt since. I also did all the air vents on the shroud and have never had snow up top since….easy and cheap and you can't tell when looking at the sled.

 

[johnelway]

someone have some pics of their vents with screens?
will add some pet screen to mine but want to see what other have made!

thanks

 

[AKrider]

i just removed the floating plate cause it was a nice huge shovel in the powder!!

but when i thnik about that, it really protecting the clutch panel. But i don't want the plate, need to find another solution.

i've just purchased a roll of pet screen and gorilla tape. Will try to close some hole in the hood!!

Yes, I recall when the float plates came out they specified you were supposed to use their bumper to mount them. It made the front of the sled have a huge snow scoop. I remember arguing with the parts kid that I didn't need to buy the accessory bumper to mount the float plate. Here is a pic of my old sled with the float plate mounted to the stock front bumper. I never had snow problems into my clutches after I installed it.

 

[YamBam]

Black plastic pet screen is really easy to install. remove the grate. Glue screen to the grate and reinstall. Even I did it!

 

[johnelway]

i'ved installed pet screen all over the hole and vent.

No snow entering from there anymore.

My problem is that my side panel is broken due to a belt blast.
Now i have a space between bottom panel and side one.
I'ved put some gorilla tape on this and it's working fine but not really a good fix.

I want to know if anybody have done a cage or protection over the clutch?

 

[poor farmer/logger]

On the vents with the steel screen already on them you can in clip them and use them to mark out some window screen. Cot it a little oversize and just clip it right back in with the steel screens. Helps allot but I'm still getting lots of snow in my front end.

 

[nitris223]

I used SLP flo rite material. Kind of a pain to install but it works. I sprayed the metal screen with 3m fabric glue , stuck the material, pulled it off again to let tack up and installed it again. Had trouble with one that didn't want to stick but eventually got it. Was on all last winter. Sometimes it would ice over but nothing serious.

 

[AKrider]

i'ved installed pet screen all over the hole and vent.

No snow entering from there anymore.

My problem is that my side panel is broken due to a belt blast.
Now i have a space between bottom panel and side one.
I'ved put some gorilla tape on this and it's working fine but not really a good fix.

I want to know if anybody have done a cage or protection over the clutch?

You did the same thing I did. The side panel flexed in enough to touch the spinning drive clutch and bust a hole in your panel. Put your float plate back on and buy a new panel. You can try to fix it if the hole isn't bad but keep in mind anything you patch it with could get sucked into your clutches if you hit something else. The float plate will flex and still allow the side panel to move into the clutch if you bash deep, soft whoops hard enough. It is a shitty design that Yamaha saw fit to do nothing to improve.