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I've read and studied this thread from end to end. I've enjoyed it and learned a lot. Based on ZZZ's measurements and reported replacement joint performance, when the time comes, and I expect it will in another 500 to 1,000 hours (I'm at 2,020 now on my '04), I'm going to spend the money to...

The dealer in Carlisle, PA, which was then (2006) named Peterman's. It's now one of the Messicks dealerships. They ordered it for me. I'd already dealt with the inconvenience of one flat tire so I just ordered the wheel through them. I don't remember if I bought the tire from the local tire...

I wouldn't spend a lot of time on it. Tires do that sometimes. When I had one split I put on a new tire. It seemed like cheap insurance at the time. Our old RTV has the original steel wheels on it. I love those wheels. I bought an extra wheel and tire so we always have a spare tire ready to go...

Adjustment of the injection pump probably affects it. If people boost the fuel delivery to the point the Diesel engine makes black smoke it results in more unburned hydrocarbon particulate in the exhaust. I've never messed with mine nor have I done anything to the pressures in the transmission...

I did some checking. The tail pipe broke off the muffler on our RTV in the first 90 days we owned it. The dealer replaced the muffler with a new one. The spark arrestor on ours is a small gadget that attaches to the end of the tail pipe. It has a convoluted screen that sticks back a few inches...

You guys made me feel so guilty. I read this thread and realized I'd never, ever, in 1980 hours of operation, cleaned the spark arrestor on my RTV. So, drove it to the shop, removed the screw, which came out very easily by the way, and took a look at it. I could see through it. It wasn't...

FWIW: Probably because I'm older than dirt, I know about a kind of rear suspension called the de Dion suspension. My 2004 RTV900W has a classic De Dion rear suspension. The tube the manual calls the 'bumper' is technically properly called a de Dion tube. They apparently used it because it was...

Okay, all done. Some notes possibly of interest. I finished replacing all four front boots and put the RTV back in service to cheers from the barn crowd. Some observations: The first thing I noticed was the profound difference in suppleness between the old boots and the new boots. The old...

I think that 870 is an excellent tractor. I have a 770 that I bought new in '95. It's a great little tractor. Last of the simple machines. The engine starts instantly just turning the key on all but the coldest days. Reliable as gravity. It just works. Keep the oil and fuel clean, grease where...

Thanks. Yeah, they really are the pits. So far the Rinoliner is holding up well and it doesn't let stuff get underneath it like the plastic liner did. The tricky part was correcting the distortion to get it back to flat. After the welding (MIG to minimize heat input) was done the long box beams...

Thanks, Mark. It was a lot of work. But it's holding up nicely a year later. I know exactly what it's like there. Really sandy. Pines, birch, and bracken. Born and raised in TC (Class of '60. I hardly recognize it when I visit). I have relatives that live on Supply Road. Fitch

I agree. It's a rugged machine. Next to the RTV most of the others are plastic toys. Fitch

I know. Alas, this is a working vehicle. It's used at least twice a day every day including holidays and Christmas. Not only do I drive it in the mud, every morning I fill the back of it full of ... used horse food. Gotta love that hydraulic dump box when ya gotta lot of ... uh .... 'stuff' to...

You could be right. My RTV has just under 2,000 hours on it but the problems happened when it was still new. We had to keep more than a quarter tank of fuel in it or it wouldn't back up the slope into the horse barn. It could be my pump, or the dirty fuel that comes out of the bulk tank. We do...

When I disassembled the front end I learned I have plastic guards (mud holders?), not metal ones like I posted earlier. :oops: I removed the front skid plate. It was packed solid with mud between it and the front axle (differential?) housing. (Picture) I'm not too surprised, I live in So...

Thanks. I think I'll go with out replacing them and see what happens. Fitch

Thanks for welcome and the feedback folks. My RTV has a curved metal shield bolted to the front of the A-arm. You can see it in the picture. My boot didn't get ripped by a stick, it failed, after 10 years and 1,977 hours, in what looks like a perfectly circumferential fatigue failure at the...

Well, here I go. We just finished the highest use time of year for our 2004 RTV. Two nights ago it was parked with the front wheels turned hard as shown in the picture, and we discovered a ripped outer CV boot. The lack of dirt in the 'wound' indicates we probably found it very soon after it...

I had one of those on my 2004 RTV900. It did not work well. There is no electric fuel pump on my RTV. If the fuel level went below 1/4 tank the filter wouldn't flow enough to keep the engine running when the RTV was backing up the bank into the barn. I put in a fresh filter. Didn't help. Removed...