Doing this repair now on same sled,great info ,followed your steps and so far not to bad. One thing I did that made the task alot easier was to remove the lower side panel. Drilled out 5 rivets and had way more access and visibility. Thanks again!
Had to get an longer bit to reach way in side to get to all the bolts around the Flywheel. As I mentioned in the video you will have to get a Flywheel Puller and a Holder to hold the P-Clutch in place while you loosen and tighten back up the Flywheel when you are done. Only when you remove the Flywheel will you be able to get at all the bolts. Don't forget to remove the bolts for the Positioning Sensor. It will stop you from removing the Flywheel.......The Starter Teeth will not allow you to remove Flywheel. Bob Tel: 617-803-4138
Thank you for this video - very helpful! I have a ‘19 Renegade 850 XRS with ~ 12,500 mi. I experienced similar symptoms as you starting around 10k mi. I added the pull start option which gave me an extra season, but now I have purchased a new starter driver and starter and am ready to replace them. Just to be clear, you did not have to remove the motor to replace the starter driver? What I think I learned from your video is that the starter driver can be replaced by 1) moving the CPS out of the way, 2) moving the magneto housing away from the motor against the inside of the chassis, then 3) removing the flywheel from the machine. This will create enough room to remove the old starter driver and replace it with the new one. Did I get that correct? Thanks again.
Yes that is correct.....It's tight but you can remove and install the new starter bendix. As you work on it you see that Skidoo does nothing to prevent water, ice and dirt from getting into the Bendix and stopping it from working! Going to be seeiing a lot of failures as people add on the miles or ride in marginal conditions like I do. Glad I was able to help and pass along what I found.
What were your exact symptoms? My 600R has 8000 miles and turns over slowly only sometimes (like its a weak battery). New battery made no change to the intermittent symptom. Seems like an actual starter motor problem... unless this is what you were observing at first? (I did install a manual pull start recently to keep it from stranding me)
Probably have a starter issue if you've already replaced the battery. The bendix wont effect how fast the motor is turning over. The bendix will either engage or not
Thank you! You're the only video I could find on the bendix. A big help!
Doing this repair now on same sled,great info ,followed your steps and so far not to bad. One thing I did that made the task alot easier was to remove the lower side panel. Drilled out 5 rivets and had way more access and visibility. Thanks again!
Yes that's right. Next time I have to do it I will remove it as well to make it easier. Thanks!!!
Remember the washer on top of the Bendix, and thank you for guiding us!
im doing mine right now....putting it back together right now...
Thank you for the video. I am doing this repair right now. This is not an easy repair. I'd like to see how you got to some of these screws.
Had to get an longer bit to reach way in side to get to all the bolts around the Flywheel. As I mentioned in the video you will have to get a Flywheel Puller and a Holder to hold the P-Clutch in place while you loosen and tighten back up the Flywheel when you are done. Only when you remove the Flywheel will you be able to get at all the bolts. Don't forget to remove the bolts for the Positioning Sensor. It will stop you from removing the Flywheel.......The Starter Teeth will not allow you to remove Flywheel. Bob Tel: 617-803-4138
My Reverse works , but start is not working, NO SOUND at all , do you think this is the Bendix?
Thank you for this video - very helpful! I have a ‘19 Renegade 850 XRS with ~ 12,500 mi. I experienced similar symptoms as you starting around 10k mi. I added the pull start option which gave me an extra season, but now I have purchased a new starter driver and starter and am ready to replace them. Just to be clear, you did not have to remove the motor to replace the starter driver? What I think I learned from your video is that the starter driver can be replaced by 1) moving the CPS out of the way, 2) moving the magneto housing away from the motor against the inside of the chassis, then 3) removing the flywheel from the machine. This will create enough room to remove the old starter driver and replace it with the new one. Did I get that correct? Thanks again.
Yes that is correct.....It's tight but you can remove and install the new starter bendix. As you work on it you see that Skidoo does nothing to prevent water, ice and dirt from getting into the Bendix and stopping it from working! Going to be seeiing a lot of failures as people add on the miles or ride in marginal conditions like I do. Glad I was able to help and pass along what I found.
What were your exact symptoms? My 600R has 8000 miles and turns over slowly only sometimes (like its a weak battery). New battery made no change to the intermittent symptom. Seems like an actual starter motor problem... unless this is what you were observing at first? (I did install a manual pull start recently to keep it from stranding me)
Probably have a starter issue if you've already replaced the battery.
The bendix wont effect how fast the motor is turning over. The bendix will either engage or not