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I've read everything on here about it, but it still doesn't seem like there's a permanent solution. Several people saying they put on a new bendix and stiffer spring and it was happening again within a season. The bushing in my bendix is hardly worn, I'll have to check the measurement again but I believe it was within the wear limit. Haven't been able to find an aftermarket starter for an 09 XP. Who has fixed this and had it last at least a season?

So the older Revs had rubber boots that covered the steering linkage to keep snow out, the XPs of course don't. I have had issues with it in the past, but not as bad as now. We have had weeks of heavy wet snow and it's almost impossible to steer. It packs in there so hard it takes a good ski lift and several hard flips to break it loose, and almost immediately is packed again. I'm working on a way to fix some rubber boots over the tie rods, and cover the linkage, or combined with plastic/ aluminum sheet, whatever. Just not sure the best way to do it. Does anyone have a solution for this or something they've made themselves? I know the skid plate probably makes it worse, but I'm just not riding without a skid plate. I'll come up with something, but would like ideas to save some time and error...

Have some bent a arms (one is bad, others are livable) that need replacing. I'm thinking of just putting on the 36" rather than getting stock. My question is for those who have these, which is the best option? Stock kit is a decent price, and I would just sell the shocks since I use Floats (have to get them shortened a bit). The other option I've looked at is AI's moly arms, not really interested in titanium. It seems that as the heims are meant to break, it would save the a arms more often than the stock setup, where the arms will bend or the module will bend. How many of you have broken these? They are more spendy, so I'm just trying to decide if the possibility of replacing fewer arms is worth the cost of them over the doo arms. And does that really save the arms or will they just bend also? I'm thinking it's a good thing to have heims break first, then a arms, then chassis damage/ module damage last in line. But does it really work in this manner reliably? Or do you end up with a broken heim and a bent a arm?