Warning for 825i owners: Check this bracket??..

[pahawi]

On both my brothers and my machine, the bracket fixed with two screws to the intake manifold, holding the gas cable, came lose. On his the screws were still there, but on mine the bracket only hung on the cable and one of the screws were missing. It didn?t cause the machines to run bad or anything, so it was just discovered by coincidence. Here?s shot of the bracket (the black headed screw is a replacement for the one I lost) - check it out guys.

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Paul

[K-DOG]

Yep, the same thing happened to me. Both bolts where gone and it happened while I was traveling at 45 mph. I thought I ran out of gas. I had less than 2 hours on the gator.

[osiris]

ill be checking it out tomorrow, looks like that would be a good part for some loctite

[plateauman57]

Are we talking 2011's or 2012's or both? Will be checking mine either way. Thanks for the info.

[CaptDan]

The same thing happened to me this past summer, I was out, way out, on trail and lost speed, would only go about 5 mph. I used plastic zip ties to hold the bracket in place until it could be repaired. I sent JD a photo so they could see exactly what the problem was, they sent a repair guy out with the right screws and repaired and repaired it at my camp site. Also discovered one of the screws holding the spark plug wire assembly. Mine is a 2011, the miles and hours are in the pictures.
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[Zephyr74]

Thanks for the info, my Gator is at the dealer gettin repaired, I will check it out when I pick it up.

[K-DOG]

Are we talking 2011's or 2012's or both? Will be checking mine either way. Thanks for the info.

Mines a 12.

[Deputy347k9]

Great preventive information guys! Have not notice a problem, however, I will be checking it out this evening and adding the loc tight.

Thanks
Larry in NC

[MBDiagMan]

Great informational post!

I'll be cinching down those screws and if I find them loose, I'll pull them out and put some blue loctite on them.

[purplewg]

Yeah, that is no place for a cross point screw. Should have been a hex head and maybe some blue loctite if it vibrates much in that area.