Good info, thanks. If you don’t mind hacking up your Cat running boards you can improve them a lot by cutting out the tabs between holes and grinding out the foot holes to about double the size. That steering slop though. Jesus. Cat must think it’s part of their corporate identity or something.
cat uses aluminum lower sprocket gears that's more than likely the reason for the aluminum shavings, the steel chain eats it up, if you need a new sprocket get one from bd-Xtreme they made a steel gear that fixes the issue.
Hi first time seeing this video. And like it. So after riding the 850, I there a real big difference between Polaris 850 and Alfa 800 in term of power in deep snow and climbing? I would prefer an Alfa but that 850 in on my mind too. Is the difference for an 850 worth buying even if I'm a cat guy
My opinion from riding different 3 sleds for the 2023 season last year. Is that the 800cc cat motor is a high compression engine that is super tourqey, paired with typical cat low gearing I'd say it's better that how the 850cc polaris motor is with the lower compression and higher gearing. Cats don't do well on top speed or drag racing, but for climbing and tree riding they are my preference. My 2019 got totaled after 3269 miles and I went and got a 2021 165 hard-core, even after riding a 9R polaris. Real intrigued to see how the cat 858 competes in the new catalyst chassis.
@@renegaderiders9289 thank you for your well described answer. It help me in my decision since I looking to get one of those two sled and for one more recent than my cat I already own. Great video and good description again it help a lot.
