U guys can keep those brutes and can am junk! Can ams motors are strong but not strong enough, and there's front diff is just as bad as the brutes. I live in wisconsin and we ride hard year round, from water, mud, snow, sand and u couldn't pay me to own anything besides a polaris. Me and my friends found that out the hard way. I was a long time polaris fan, and switched when the can am came back out. Worst mistake I've made to date. I have now switched back. Along with 3 of my friends. And 2 wanting to but can't sell there crap. Ones a 06 brute and the other is a 800 can am. There's a reason polaris is number 1 in 4x4s. And its not hard to see in stock form. But if your modding them, anything can work with enough money.
Never have I heard of anyone switching from a canam because of reliability reasons. Our bikes are 65+rwhp on the "little" motors and sprayed on top of that. The "big" motors are more. They run 28/29.5 outlaws and 30" silverbacks. All of this on the stock driveline. Heck, we even tried spraying a 100hp shot at some sand drags but could get enough fuel from the pump. Rotax motors are incredible if you keep sand and water out of them.
Only time an axle breaks (9/10 times the right rear) is when we have failed to catch a trailing ARM bearing developing play. Entire front ends (axles & diffs) are all original on all 4 of our canams (not counting wheel bearings). Trailing are bearings go out from all the mud/water riding and then the constant wheelies on top of it all but its not often.
We have broke driveshafts from neglecting the u-joints and letting them develop slack. I didn't check my driveshaft before a race and broke a through shaft while spraying a 40 shot when the front end came down. I couldn't lift the throttle fast enough.
I've seen a visco lock burn its clutches up from being run with one broke axle but never seen one break.
We abuse our bikes on the trail and in the races. Even with all the HP, they are extremely reliable. 90% of the time we have broke something it has been from negligence on our part for not giving them a break and doing a little pm.
Telling me a canam isn't reliable would be like telling MikeL that an Allison will never hold HP reliably.
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