The wide majority of UTV owners are not experts in all things mechanical and that is fine, if you were, then what would be the point of tech articles?

In this article Todd Eldridge from Hunterworks shares some common answers to common questions on Top Speed and Acceleration, Prolonging CVT Belt Life and Protecting Your Engine.

To read all of these tips, check out UTV Weekly.

It’s the dead of winter, and planting food plots is still months away. But planning begins now. This tips should get you through the basic steps of establishing and maintaining your food plots with your Rhino. There are numerous accessories to choose from that can make that job easier, or possibly more cost-effective.

Check out Yamaha Motor tips on food plots implementation.

You've hunted hard and enjoyed the ride? Now is the time to prepare for next season.

Ask yourself these questions: Are those decoys in need of a paint touch-up? Do it. Maybe you want to buy a new call or two just to keep you busy during rush-hour traffic? Get one to keep you in the game. There’s no better time to check in with your waterfowling contacts around the country than now. How did their season go? Maybe you want to plan for the 2010-2011 campaign? Do it.

Check out Yamaha Motor for more tips on your Rhino.

Since the hunting season’s approaching, you will need to learn a little bit about ATV accessories that help make your time on your Yamaha Rhino more enjoyable during the season.

As planning is the key to a successful hunt, not only for the harvest, but for accessories as well, ATV Magazine presents a useful list of accessories, explaining your need in each of them and showing you the best choice.

Check out the list of accessories on ATV Magazine.

Atv Magazine offers 10 useful tips on working with a winch:

1. Dampen the winch cable.
2. Never hold the hook (clasp).
3. Add a rock guard sleeve.
4. Wear gloves when winching.
5. Go wireless.
6. Go with a roller fairlead when using a snowplow.
7. Purchase an accessory pack.
8. Get a choker chain for your quad.
9. Cover the winch.
10. Go with the Multi-Mount.

For detailed info on the tips check out ATV Magazine.

Getting your toys to your riding area is always a balance. Too many toys, not enough space. It's always buying a trailer vs. hauling in your truck bed, or buying a toy hauler vs. using camp trailer and putting toys in the truck bed. Many UTV owners have come up with some unique ways to transport them to riding areas.

Although the cheapest way to haul your UTV is in the back of your truck, most long travel UTVs are too wide to fit in the bed of your truck.

Check out UTV Weekly tips on how to get your UTV to the trail head in the back of your truck.

The job of the transmission is to change the speed ratio between the engine and the wheels. The transmission uses a range of gears — from low to high — to make more effective use of the engine’s torque as driving conditions change. Yamaha Rhino uses a type of automatic transmission called a continuously variable transmission or CVT. Unlike traditional automatic transmissions used in cars, CVTs don’t have any sort of gears. The CVT operates on a pulley system that allows an infinite variability between highest and lowest gears with no discrete steps or shifts.

That all works great until you modify your UTV. As soon as you change to bigger/more aggressive tires or add more power to your Rhino, your clutch works harder and can slip more. Clutch kits are a package of springs, weights and possibly a new belt that calibrate your clutch to your Rhino setup (tires, engine, weight) and terrain (mud, sand, dirt, snow). Clutch kit is more efficient in transferring the power of your Rhino down to the tires, it is designed to improve low and mid-range acceleration, it helps to decrease belt slippage and clutch heat, and also enhances back shifting and throttle response.

Check out more on Clutch Kits and watch educational video from EPI on UTV Weekly

One of the best ways to increase the stability, performance, and comfort of your UTV is having a properly set up suspension for your needs. And, there’s really 3 different ways to go when setting up your UTV’s suspension:

1) Stock A-arms & Shocks
2) Stock A-Arms & Aftermarket Shocks
3) Long-Travel A-Arms & Aftermarket Shocks

UTV Offroad Magazine discusses all these options, the pros and cons, and tells you how to get the best out of your setup. Need to know which suspension system to buy and how to dial it in once it’s installed? Check out UTV Offroad Magazine.

The factory skid just isn’t up to the task when the entire weight of the vehicle is sliding across its belly. If a few scrape on the powder coat don’t bother you at all, then you must know that a good hit to the lower a-arm could put a big dent in it. A-Arm skids not only help spread out a blow from a rock and protect them from damage when an arm is forced to slide across a rock, but they also make the bottom of the arm flat and slippery so rocks can’t get stuck up in the arm.

Factory UTV was one of the first in the UTV market to make skid plates for UTVs out of a product called UHMW. UHMW is much better suited to skid plate as compared to typical aluminum, because the material does not stick to rocks, has some amount of give and it will return to normal position after a hit.

The Factory UTV skid plate is made from 3/8″ or 1/2″, it is pre-drilled for oil change and drainage and uses existing and supplied hardware for installation. All mounting locations are recessed so that hardware stays out of harms way.
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Using the incorrect fuel for your motor can cause serious damage to your unit that will turn into a costly non-warranty situation. That's why QLINK recommends a high octane fuel (93 octane).

The first thing to know is the definition of an Octane Rating in terms of fuel; the Fuel Octane Level is the measure of resistance of gasoline to pre-ignition and detonation (commonly referred to as “engine knocking”) in internal combustion engines. The Octane Rating of fuel does not measure the quality of the fuel or necessarily guarantee increased performance should you use it; it measures the fuel’s ability to resist pre-ignition and detonation, which would cause serious engine damage.

If your unit has high-compression ratio, meaning it works with high amounts of pressure and heat, QLINK insist that you spend the extra dollar to fill up your tank with the highest rated gas at your local station in order to prevent pre-ignition and detonation. This is the only way to prevent serious engine damage that would be deemed non-warranty due to the use of improper fuel.

To find out more about high octane fuel, check QLINK