T-20.. turning and brake band wear

[Rusty-Gunn]

Hi. I have a question regarding holding a lateral in a slight turn for long lengths if time, say thirty minutes, due to terrain (in my case the beach) vs. brake band wear. Does holding the lateral continously for say thirty minutes promote premature band wear? I was very tempted to do this in our last ride but chose to jerk the lateral as needed every five seconds for about thirty minutes and my arm got very sore. Any advice? Thanks.

[thebuggyman1]

If your arms get tired, try removing the lateral springs.......or going to the gym. Your choice.

[Rusty-Gunn]

If your arms get tired, try removing the lateral springs.......or going to the gym. Your choice.

Going to the gym sounds good. Lol. I figure this means its not entirely wise to hold the brakes on constantly hen. Not a problem. Time to toughen up.

[Mike]

To me, holding the lateral for any length of time, even thirty minutes, shouldn't be a problem. If you are having to hold one side to keep straight, you are most likely keeping that side in neutral to where the bands are not engaged. Any harder and you have engaged the brakes on that side. Any looser and you have engaged the brakes on the opposite drum and are back in forward/drive again.

You may want to check the tire circumference on both sides and see why it is drifting to one side to start with.

[Rusty-Gunn]

Thank you Mike. Actually the Max IV tracks straight. Its the beach we ride on that is slanted and curved, which makes the vehical drive "crooked". It will drive straight, but straight into the ocean if I don't make a turn correction. Sorry to mislead you.
I was inquiring if holding a constant light turn would prematurely wear out the brake bands. I tend to think it would, but I don't know the durability of the T-20.

To me, holding the lateral for any length of time, even thirty minutes, shouldn't be a problem. If you are having to hold one side to keep straight, you are most likely keeping that side in neutral to where the bands are not engaged. Any harder and you have engaged the brakes on that side. Any looser and you have engaged the brakes on the opposite drum and are back in forward/drive again.

You may want to check the tire circumference on both sides and see why it is drifting to one side to start with.

[amphibious drew]

You could always overinflate the beach side of the machine so it doesn't track straight. It would suck everywhere but your beach, and I wouldn't really want to drive around like that. It could be don't though.

[rodp]

Thank you Mike. Actually the Max IV tracks straight. Its the beach we ride on that is slanted and curved, which makes the vehical drive "crooked". It will drive straight, but straight into the ocean if I don't make a turn correction. Sorry to mislead you.
I was inquiring if holding a constant light turn would prematurely wear out the brake bands. I tend to think it would, but I don't know the durability of the T-20.

Damned inconsiderate of God when he made the earth wasn't it, he never once took these skid steers into consideration

Next time you go to church have a word with him


Apologies to any Christians / Church goer's, although I'm a Christian we don't take it quite so seriously over here, in fact, quite light heartedly at times.

[Rusty-Gunn]

Damned inconsiderate of God when he made the earth wasn't it, he never once took these skid steers into consideration

Next time you go to church have a word with him


Apologies to any Christians / Church goer's, although I'm a Christian we don't take it quite so seriously over here, in fact, quite light heartedly at times.

No offense taken. God has a sense of humor. He made the beach slanted so I could over-use one arm and make it much bigger than the other side and go through life with one super large arm like some crabs have one large claw.
If you see a scrawny little man sporting an Arnold Swartzenegger arm waving at you then you know who it is.

[rodp]

No offense taken. God has a sense of humor. He made the beach slanted so I could over-use one arm and make it much bigger than the other side and go through life with one super large arm like some crabs have one large claw.
If you see a scrawny little man sporting an Arnold Swartzenegger arm waving at you then you know who it is.

Is this you ?

[Rusty-Gunn]

Yup. In any case I figure deal with the beach one way or another. We'll be riding on it many times this summer.

[akcrawler]

Rusty,

look at the bright side...when you return home, you will be strengthening the other arm. It sounds like a wonderful smooth ride to me. I have been doing much of my riding on 4-wheeler trails this summer. They have all the whoop-de-dos that bounce me all over the front seat if I don't really watch it and keep my speed down. Makes me want to order up one of those springer kits....

[Rusty-Gunn]

The more I drive this machine the stronger I get. We already put about fifty hours of use in a month. Left arm gets a work out going out, right arm on the way back.
We also ride on quad trails through mud, swamps, tundra etc. They struggle through the rough stuff whereas we ride easily. We are very impressed with the Max.
We did get stuck once, a few days ago though. Any and all manner of atvs would too. The mud is that thick, gooey, tundra muck that sucks your laced-up boots off. I believe its the same muck that mammoths got stuck in twenty thousand years ago. We find their bones, tusks and teeth in them.