I'll be looking into it when mine get here. The slides don't care what direction they go.

 

The shorter Duponts need about 7 more inserts to cover the remaining piece of the slider to the rear. I buy the longer units ( part number ends in 816 ), re-drill the mount hole to be just in front of the first insert and then cut to length. This gives me insert coverage for the entire length. My sled has the 129" track.

 

These were the part # forms 137???

 

Do you guys actually go through your factory slides quickly? I ride in any kind of condition every week all winter. Just took the skid out of my 850 at 5,000 miles and sliders had lots of meat left. Replaced them with factory just because it was easy with the skid out.

 

Been a longtime Polaris guy here, but it seems to me the XS chassis eats thru slides, couldn’t get 2000 miles out of our 14 GSX, but my gen 5 with 1500 miles so far still look like new.

 

Don't worry about it and install them in the proper direction.. I've put 1000's of miles on DuPont sliders ...I ran one set on two different sleds for over 10,000 miles..
No melting in bad conditions and road grinding also you can tell there is less friction right from the get go

 

The ones in the pic have 600kms on them! Installed them late last season for our last ride in Cochrane.. we launched in kirkland lake and went up thru Timmons/shinning tree.. morning conditions were tight and the ice scratchers were doing as much as they could.... I could run them longer but had it apart anyway as I did a bunch of suspension work anyway

 

Burned through stock set at 1100 miles. Put Yamaha DuPonts on. 5k miles later no issues. Not even a mark on them.

 

Only issues with the duponts, the inserts will come out from time to time.

 

I found them in a corner in my machine shop. These are the 1st set of replacements removed in Feb' 2019 @ 3500 klicks.

They were installed before a thousand klicks were on the sled. My friend & were both shocked at the wear. His was much more telling as he had very little road running in his travels.

 

Yes. They wear to that point fairly quickly and then they last a long long time.

 

buy the ones from Grip N Rip they have more inserts

 

Has anyone in Canada ordered from them? I can't imagine what the shipping cost would be for an item that size since it would be an international shipment.

 

i have a set of dupont sliders on my Gade, i don't think i'll be buying another set, one slider wore through there's minimal inserts left on the right slider. i'm going to buy myself a set to keep on hand just to be ready to replace them if needed. i have maybe 3000km on them and set my tension to doos recommended