How deep of water have you had your RTV in?

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DocGP

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After reading the manual, it seemed they don't want the RTV's in much water. I know these aren't swamp buggies meant for 3' of water, and I have installed the Hi Mount air intake, but how deep have you had them?

Personally, I have never had water over the floorboard, inside the cab (RTV 900 open cab, standard factory issue ATV tires). I doubt I have ever had water over the axel during the whole first year I have owned her. Just wondering what some have put them through and how they handled it. I would imagine the stock air intake is the limiting factor most of the time.

Doc
 
In this thread, the member's son parked it in a pond.</p>


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Myself, I've had it in mud as deep as the seat. I had more issues due to the mud than the aforementioned swim in the pond.</p>
 
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I just had an experience where I sank in water deep enough that I had about five or six inches in the cab. I live in northern Maine and so I put tracks in the wintertime. I was in a trail unaware that beavers had dammed it up. Long stort short, I went through and had to be hauled out by the Tucker groomer from the local snowmobile club. Water was bubbling out of the exhaust for over an hour until we were able to haul it out. I never stopped it until I was able to get it home in my garage. Everything electrical shorted out including both front and rear winches. After it thawed out, to my surprise, all the electrical components worked, lights, heater, winches etc. I did damage the shock strut, ball joint,tie rod end, cv joint when it was pulled out of the ice, but at least it isn't frozen stuck in the beaver dam so I guess it could have been worse. They are quite a rugged machine but they do have their limits I guess. I do plan on getting the Hi-MOUNT air cleaner in the future for situations like this and for dust purposes in the summer.</p>
 
About 5 inches above the floor boards. I did encounter starting problems from moisture in the starter though. Had it replaced under warranty. I was told not to go deeper than the wheel centres.</p>
 
huh!! when i bought my hpx i was told that it would be able to cross a crawfish pond with no problemo!!! it didn't even have a clutch enclosure well i went into a ditch with about 10"of water and i was water stuck so much for takin the salemans word. i did know he was full of it before i took it home though i just wanted to see how much it could take before it did start to slip. some salesman will tell you a low level just to keep them from doing warranty work and others will tell you a high level just to make the sale. the best people to talk to is us and felow owners of utv we know or should i say "been there done that" what reason would we have to lie we ain't makin no money off you . do the homework before you buy and if you bought it already then oh whell start reading up on what you gotta seal up to go through the deep stuff. look at it this way anything can be made to be fully submerged you just gotta get down there and take the time to seal it up and after doing the deep water riding you gotta take the time to fully clean it out .</p>
 
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