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Made my first video on my Talon, only second video I ever made period, check it out hope y’all enjoy
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Cool video. 👍 If you think that's dirty - Hold My Beer. 
About the sub trans - yeah, they can be broken BUT - as long as you know about the problem and are mechanically sympathetic, I think there's a very small possibility of doing damage. The problems happen when guys start banging between Low and Reverse when they get stuck or impatient. I have over 9,000 miles now and I've never had the dreaded BANG when the shift dogs slip.
To help with that, I almost never use Low when the buggy is cold unless I have to - and then I'll make a short run where I'll shift into Low when I'm barely moving and click it into Low - it's like double clutching a crash box, done slow and carefully. Actually, I try to be rolling (SLOWLY) when I shift into Low even after it's warmed up.
About the sub trans - yeah, they can be broken BUT - as long as you know about the problem and are mechanically sympathetic, I think there's a very small possibility of doing damage. The problems happen when guys start banging between Low and Reverse when they get stuck or impatient. I have over 9,000 miles now and I've never had the dreaded BANG when the shift dogs slip.
To help with that, I almost never use Low when the buggy is cold unless I have to - and then I'll make a short run where I'll shift into Low when I'm barely moving and click it into Low - it's like double clutching a crash box, done slow and carefully. Actually, I try to be rolling (SLOWLY) when I shift into Low even after it's warmed up.
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Was talking about the sub trans, I felt my talon jump a tooth today, only 330 miles on it, was not dogging it, it was cold, backed it out of barn , put in in drive eased off to put it under shelter, started moving them made a noticeable pop like it jumped a gear or something, then was fine, what y’all think??
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Low or High range? If Low, don’t use Low until it’s warmed up, that’s where a lot of them were skipping. If you have to use Low when it’s cold, get rolling in High (slowly), decelerate, when you’ve almost stopped moving, snick it into Low. It’s like double clutching a non synchro transmission.
Change the sub trans fluid to HP4 with moly. There are 2 photos of that oil in the New Talon Owners thread, linked in my sig and a sticky in the General Talon 1000 Discussion forum.
Since you were just moving at lite throttle, I doubt you did any damage. Try to remember the conditions (cold sub trans, Low range?) and try to do ‘something’ different next time. Mine has done it twice, once on a chilly morning and another at the trailhead, it was 80* out too, so not chilly at all.
When I shift into Low, I can feel that it hasn’t gone all the way in, the lever is loaded toward the front of the shift gate. When it falls into Low, it’s not loaded forward.
Make sure you shift cable is adjusted properly - the shift lever should straddle the Neutral gate - equal play on both sides of the gate center line. My shifter center line is just a bit forward of the Neutral gate which gives me a little more ‘push’ into Low.
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PS - Do NOT use the moly oil in your engine/DCT, it’s NOT wet clutch friendly; sub trans only.
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Thanks for info, honestly I can’t remember if low or high, I was just moving it outta way but usually when I’m moving it slow I put it in low, so I believe I would have been in low, we put rotella t6 in my buddy’s pioneer made it shift 100 percent smoother and it’s got the j rating
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Machine trans popped again today, have to move it outta shop to work on other things, backed it out slowly, put it in high definitely pulled off easy and it popped, then it was fine, what y’all think, leaving for Hatfield Thursday morning
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Did you buy this new? (So you know the history) Is your shift lever centered on the Neutral gate? (Or a tiny bit forward won’t hurt). In the beginning, guys were taking a rat tail file and elongating the shift gate to the rear, so there was more travel into Low.
The problem with that idea, it sounds like yours is doing it in Reverse?
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I bought it new, only 6 months old 320miles, it’s doing it in high, everything feels stiff like it supposed to, display showing high, it’s like the gears have to turn a little for it to lock all way in and makes a pop then it goes, it actually pulls off a foot or so before it pops .
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It is for sale👍, original battery runs everything no problem, have a volt meter in it, never seen it drop under 14volts while running, flags was made by me on a cricut machine, always put the flag on the back window so just made them smaller, I ended up taking them off though, just a little too much green, I made a more recent video of it too
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I’ve always owned utility rigs, but the kids got us going with them to Hatfield 4 times a year, we walked in the showroom and saw that one with that color scheme and my wife loved it, we have enjoyed it, excellent ride and very capable trail machine, it will go anywhere 😂. But l love to deer hunt and clean in the yards and the talon is not the machine for that. The can-am won’t handle the trails the way the Talon did but it is plenty capable, don’t have a bad word to say about Honda, they make a great machine, wish I could keep them both
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