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I'm trying to put together a 3 night (Mon-Thurs) little get away and need some help finding a good location. Here's what I'm looking for... 1) 2 days worth of easy mostly non-technical ATV trail riding (w/ passenger) with good look outs. 2) Nearby camping with facilities that's not too crowded. 3) Rental cabins close to the trail head. The first ATV park I know of is Black Mountain in Evarts KY. Lots of trails but I suspect they may lean more toward the technical side. Not sure about the cabin or camping situations in the area. The second is Ride Royal Blue just off I75 in Pioneer, TN. Good easy trails and cabins, but the camping situations I'm not too sure about. So...can anybody tell me about more locations w/in say 200 miles of Lex, KY that might be toward what I'm looking for?

Just put a new plug in then had to take it out to rotate the engine to measure valve clearance, which has got me wondering about the crush washers on spark plugs. Do you have to get a new crush washer to re-insert the same plug? What's the torque procedure for a plug in an ATV engine, snug plus a quarter turn?

Having a problem figuring out what size hex wrench this part takes. It's labeled #9 at the extreme bottom right of the diagram... I have a half inch hex and that's def not it, too small. No parts store in town has anything that size so I'm gonna have to special order. Any idea what size driver this part takes?

Here's what just came out of the old '11 700 Grizz... The pics indicate some kind of build up on 3 surfaces...the base ring, and on both the electrode and ceramic opposite where the strap attaches. What condition does this suggest? Also, this article... How to read Racing Spark Plugs - Dragstuff indicates since there's no color change in the middle of the ground strap that there's some type of temp problem. Or does this not apply as the article is talking about racing spark plugs? Thanks

I'm going into my '11 Grizz 700 to adjust valve clearance for the first time and when I button everything back up I'll be replacing all the gaskets / o-rings. The 5 I'll be replacing include (from the top down) both valve cover gaskets, cylinder head cover gasket, and the 2 gaskets in the crankcase cover. Do I need to coat these gaskets with motor oil before putting them on like when replacing your oil filter?

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Life got the best of me this year and to make a long story short my '11 Grizz 700 has a half tank of gas (w/ no stabilizer) and hasn't been started for around 9 or 10 months. I have apologized to it and promised this will never happen again, but in the meantime I'm faced with what to do to remedy the problem. Ideally I suppose I should get the tank off and drain the gas, replacing with non-EtOH gas (which thankfully I just found in my area). Any advice on how to get this done (draining the tank) or how difficult it might be?

I'm going to check the valve clearance on my 2011 Grizz 700 for the first time and I'm also wanting to check the timing, but I'm not sure how to do it. What tool (light gun?) do I need for this job and how is it done?

Really grateful for all the support! No piece of info or advice is out of place here. Based on some of the initial feedback I've changed my parameters just a little, I think much toward the better. First I'm increasing my budget to, at tops, $3500. I'm sure that'll help get me into a much less worrisome 4x. Also, the requirement for full auto is now dropped. I'm not a stranger to a foot shifter so that should be no problem. And lastly even though the Polaris have great rack options I've heard just enough negative about the older ones that I'll be steering away from them somewhat. Still looking for something with good front and rear racks and fully 4x4 though. Any additional suggestions now that my budget's been given a boost?

Been a life long dream of mine to have a 4x4 and so now I've finally decided to put out the money to make it happen. My budget's 2,000 - 2,500 so obviously I'm looking for something used, and I'm writing in to ask you guys what I should be looking for a what I should avoid. I'll be using it mostly for just moderate trail riding and camping so it doesn't have to be a monster machine. Requirements are that it have a lot of potential rack space, automatic and be fully 4x4. So far after looking at a lot of offers I seem to be settling on some of the 2005-2007 Polaris Sportsman models. They seem to have some flexibility as to what type of components you can add on...racks, gun racks, etc. I'm fairly mechanically inclined and could probably do any maintenance or part upgrade outside of getting too deep into the motor. So what are some of the models I should be looking out for? And are there any I should be avoiding? Also, so far craig's list has been my only source to find sellers. Any other suggestions for where to look for leads? Thanks