P500 Joined the P500 club today! Few questions

[Twangin]

As the subject says, after much research and help from the good people on this forum I took the day off and brought home a 2017 P500 (with Honda roof)! Literally had a smile on my face the entire time while riding this thing! Here’s some comments and a few questions while I’m getting acquainted:
1) for anyone who has the Honda roof- I noticed mine was making a really annoying squeaking noise at two of the clamps.. an easy fix was to cut a strip as wide as the clamp and 6” long from a zip-lok bag and put it around the roll bar where the clamp goes such that the strip was between the bar and clamp.. zero squeaking now
2) want to do the reverse lever override mod where you loosen the cable.. any harm in doing this?
3) any info on how to adjust the shocks? I see some notches on the sleeve covering a portion of the shock. I actually find the “stock setting” ride pretty dang good but just curious if you guys have determined an optimal setting.
4) Any pointers on removing the sway bar? Again, the ride right now is pretty good to me but if I were to remove it what should I expect to change about the ride quality?

Thanks y’all!


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[Admin]

 

[trigger]

1) Turn up the tunes and you won't hear any of that. 2) No harm whatsoever, just don't shift into reverse moving forward. 3) You can adjust them with a pipe wrench if you're careful not to booger them up but a spanner wrench only costs about $8 at an atv dealer. Adjusting them up will give you a stiffer ride but I would suggest as soft as possible unless you're bottoming out. Amount of weight you carry will make a difference too. 4) Unhook that thing unless your riding style is doing donuts and slinging around corners all the time. Ride is much smoother and rear end articulates better without it.
You and your UPS guy are about to know each other on a first name basis.

 

[Twangin]

1) Turn up the tunes and you won't hear any of that. 2) No harm whatsoever, just don't shift into reverse moving forward. 3) You can adjust them with a pipe wrench if you're careful not to booger them up but a spanner wrench only costs about $8 at an atv dealer. Adjusting them up will give you a stiffer ride but I would suggest as soft as possible unless you're bottoming out. Amount of weight you carry will make a difference too. 4) Unhook that thing unless your riding style is doing donuts and slinging around corners all the time. Ride is much smoother and rear end articulates better without it.
You and your UPS guy are about to know each other on a first name basis.

Lmao. You hit the nail on the head. Just ordered my speaker system a couple minutes ago.. and saving some wheel tire combos on eBay right now.. And probably about to hit up Chooglin for a glove box. Oh god what have i gotten myself into!? Does the P500 need to be up on a jack in order to make the shock adjustments?


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[Chooglin]

As far as the roof goes , did you try just tightening the clamps a full turn first ?

The best thing you can do to improve the overall ride is , a 26"-27" radial tire and remove the sway bar. The next best thing would be the Walker Evens shocks !

 

[lee]

Does the P500 need to be up on a jack in order to make the shock adjustments?

Getting the weight off the wheel will make life much easier.

 

[Mudder]

Welcome. Wd 40 and tighten roof clamps. The reverse cable mod, seatbelt speed limiter disable and sway bar mod are great, no problems here (found how-to threads on search). Open the wallet and let the mods begin! P500 - Poll- $ spent on P500 Mods or Accessories

 

[Twangin]

Thanks for the info everyone. Apologies if I missed this in the link that was posted above but how would I go about making the drivers seatbelt receiver flexible/movable like the passenger side one? I’d like to be able to flip them both backwards to open up the whole bench seat.


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[Twangin]

Would it work to just buy a seatbelt latch from a 2016 somewhere online? This would kill two birds with one stone- no seatbelt speed limiter and can fold the drivers belt latch out of the way.


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[Neohio]

You would need to purchase a passenger buckle from a dealer and install it on the drivers side. This may disable the speed interlock though.
Speed limiter can easily be disabled without too much hassle. If you search @JTW for threads he created/started, he did a write up on the process.

 

[Twangin]

1) Turn up the tunes and you won't hear any of that. 2) No harm whatsoever, just don't shift into reverse moving forward. 3) You can adjust them with a pipe wrench if you're careful not to booger them up but a spanner wrench only costs about $8 at an atv dealer. Adjusting them up will give you a stiffer ride but I would suggest as soft as possible unless you're bottoming out. Amount of weight you carry will make a difference too. 4) Unhook that thing unless your riding style is doing donuts and slinging around corners all the time. Ride is much smoother and rear end articulates better without it.
You and your UPS guy are about to know each other on a first name basis.

Been working on some mods this weekend and was just trying to do the reverse lever mod and it didn’t work.. I adjusted the nut closest to the dash all the way as far towards the dash as I could (without it slipping off the threads), then adjusted the other nut snugly in the same direction. All this did was make the lever very difficult to pull and I could not go into reverse without pulling the lever.. did I do something wrong?


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[Mudder]

@Twangin, your adjustment should “pull the cable”, like the lever does, but if your adjustment lever is already hard to pull ??...you should have a longer threaded cable sheath showing under the hood than stock adjustment. Did not have to overtighten like feeling the treads are going to strip. If still need more adjustment, dont know if there is a similar adjustment at the other end going into motor/transmission.

 

[Twangin]

Ok thanks @Mudder, I’ll take a closer look and give it another shot this week.


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