Sierra trailboss

[CornSquatch]

So here's the skinny I bought a trail boss as something I could kind of do everything with, hunting, fishing camping and the likes. But I'm running into some issues. The motor has been swapped to a 368cc bombadier. It's not the cleanest machine out there but I'm hoping to get some life out of her yet. My steering is binding and it has some issues engaging unless I'm rapped way up in the top of the motor. It has an issue steering/ turning. Ive only read a few things on the motor.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

P.s. the exhaust is just a mock up, we're trying different things, old owner made it straight pipe and it's obnoxiously loud

[CornSquatch]

Also I'm doing this on my phone trying to figure out how to upload pics so I can show yall what I'm working with

[Jeff t-boss]

The Sierras were/are notorious for the steering issues that you mentioned. Although they are rock crushers when they are set up correctly, they are very tempermental in their adjustments and response. Sierra had two different styles of (Vesley) trannies that they used over the years. Simply put "New" and "Old". The difference was in the mechanical design of the actuation of the brake bands inside the tranny itself. The only way to accurately figure out which one you have is to open it up and look. Gear lubrication also played a part in performance of the trannies too. Some specs called for 90W, and others called for 30W oil. I've run both in mine, and saw no differences. I actually ran 90W in 1 tranny and 30W in the other and felt no difference in performance. I even ran ATF, and the results were the same. As far as your engine rpm's goes (Regardless of what engine it is.) You are not wrong in saying that you must keep the rpms up on the high end. That's the way that the T/B was designed. It's not like driving a car. You must keep the rpms at the higher end in order to control the trannies as you want in order to move. Sierras design for operation back in their days is comparable to todays hydrostatic operated drive systems. The only difference is that back then, it was purely mechanical. Nowadays, it's all hydraulic. But the main means still remains that the engine rpm's must remain at the higher end. I hope that this helps.