Rubbin sound

[kingwood1]

While driving im hearing a rubbing sound, at first i thought it might be the brakes so i took both fronts apart and cleaned and saw nothing wrong, but noise is definatlely coming from under the seat to the front drive, but i cant find anything. dont know its gotta be either a drive shaft or the front punkin but all the drive shafts are tight with no slop machine has 50hrs on it so i cant imagine the four wheel drive is going out and it makes the noise when in two wheel drive anyone got any ideas? thanks for the help

[pahawi]

The front rattle is a well known problem. There is a few threads about it - try searching "noise" and some should pop up. If you still have warranty, bring it to your dealer.

I have the rattle too and are waiting for the new drive shaft bearing to arrive. I have found a way to make it go away, though. Cant promise if it'll work on yours, but here's what works for me:

Place you Gator on a hill steep enough, to make your front and rear wheels spin, when you put it in reverse and shortly floor the gas pedal. As you might know, the front wheels only engage, if the rear wheels start spinning, which is why you need to do it on a pretty steep hill. You have to be a bit rough to your machine. Grass is too slippery, so if you have a hill with not too loose gravel..... There have to be quite some traction or friction.

The above might sound crazy, but every time the noise starts, I do this and it's gone for a while (the noise often comes back if I drive forward with the four wheel drive engaged).

Try it :-) And if you, due to my lousy English, dont understand the above, let me know and I'll try again :-)


Paul

[GATORDONE]

Take it to your dealer and have it looked at, Their is service bulliton on this problem.:Ysnd:

[kingwood1]

talked to dealer and they told me it is the front diff. nedding adjusted and if i have warranty dont worry about it till i can get it to them so i guess the hell with it i'll keep running it at least till summer till i can get it to them, but i'll try the hill thing lol i got plenty of muddy slippery hills around thanks for the info, still laughin about the hill thing sounds like a fixer uper i'd think of