Yes, quite likely.

 

Easy do it yourself? in the service manual, it mentions a one way clutch bearing, and suggests special tools to get at. having to remove the primary and secondary sheaves are the specialty tools necessary or can it be done without? I have never taken anything apart eg, belt and clutch area. have done some suspension work tho.

 

My Grizzly and Rhino both do this from Constant Use on Steep Gradients. Had it fixed once by a Yamaha Dealer, broke again about 1x month later. Done 1000 hour sinces then

 

Putting weighting slugs into the wet clutch just MIGHT take some of the load off of the one-way clutch. The one-way spins the motor to match the speed of the CVT until such time that the engine idle RPM is faster than the CVT running RPM, where the one-way will release So, because the engine is spinning faster than wet clutch engagement speed, the wet clutch is engaged and is taking a good portion, if not virtually all, of the load off of the one-way.

It is that wet clutch slipping when it is barely spinning fast enough to engage that is shifting more of the load onto the one-way, The weighting slugs make the initial wet clutch engagement more positive and at a wee bit lower RPM that just might prolong the life of the one-way.

The destructive load on the one-way is just off idle to when the wet clutch is fully engaged. So, riding style can make a difference. Avoid that just off idle engine RPM when going downhill, give it a smidgen of gas if need be to keep the RPM a fair bit above idle. If that is moving too fast for you, stop and shift to low gear range.

 

Thanks Todd, late I know.

May I suggest labelling your Youtube Videos with the vehicle names, possibly add "Rhino One Way Clutch Upgrade or Wet Slut Kit". As I had to login to this site, look through my previous posts to find my post about the one way

If I decide to sort mine out I'll be ordering your kit.