PolarisWedgeFan
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I ran into a problem over the weekend with my 97 Ultra SP. The machine was an absolute barn find with under 600 miles on it when I picked it up 3 years ago. I'm new into the sport but I got up to the mountains and put over a hundred miles on it the last 2 years and it ran terrific. Over the weekend I got it into some of the deep powder and got it somewhat stuck. When I gunned it to get it out I could smell burnt rubber. I got it out and into my driveway and let it sit for several hours. When I fired it up later on it ran perfect and idled right down to 1800 or so RPM's but when I went to take off I could tell it wasn't responding the way it should and it was smoking and smelling like burnt rubber again so I shut it down. I tried to start it up this morning and now it doesn't want to start and when it does it won't idle. I did see some shavings off the drive belt when I looked in there but I think something else is going on. Anyone have any suggestions on what to look at? Could my clutch have gotten stuck or something like that ? Would that now effect starting and idling?