[Chris B.]

Ok, I took care of the heat on the seat issue, now I want to install a fan to blow the heat out the back. I could only find one pic and it was hard to tell where the fan was mounted and it’s size. Here are a couple pics, I added weather seal all along the rail to lay the aluminum on. I also made a 1/4” lid for my storage box.

 

[stainlessman]

Chris I have photos in 'my gallery' on this forum if you can find them showing my battle with the heat of the 800 ranger.
Unfortunately after a few months in with a few hundred miles on it I realized having the engine under the seat was a bad design and the 900 model of ranger pulled the engine from under the seat towards the back under the bed. Still some heat in the cab but certainly not as bad as the 800 was. I took a $2000. loss when I sold it. I learned from my mistake and moved on.
Hearing the bulged pump blower running while trail riding sucked also. But IF you can get air enough passing under the seat and Blow the heat out and away it helps. Suck in the cool air blow out the hot.

 

[stainlessman]

Hot Seat

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[Chris B.]

Yeah it sucks! I wish I would have done my homework before buying. But it is what it is. How big of a lift did you put on? Do you have to reroute or add Anything for 3”. My fan will be here by midweek. I’m not going to plumb anything I’m just gonna have it blowing on the motor pushing the air out the back. Looks like you lost your storage box pluming that heat out.

 

[stainlessman]

I mounted the bulge blower on the side panel behind the driver facing out. Drilled two holes through the plastic and zip tied it. Covered the end with window screen to stop 'stuff' from blowing onto the motor. The flex tube and aluminum elbow was from Lowes online mailed to me.
The lift was a Marshall MotoArt lift.
So I added the header heat tape wrap, added the blower, fabricated an aluminum heat shield, added heat reflective firewall blanket all to combat the heat.

 

[napo]

I'm a lucky one ... mine gets a little warm sometimes but never hot at all... Beatiful

 

[Chris B.]

Ok I got the fan mounted and wired. I drilled a bunch of holes in the cover by your lower legs to let the fan breath. Hot wire with key was located under the bed with a plug already on it. Know idea what it’s for but it’s a fan now.

 

[Chris B.]

 

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[cardboard]

Just bought a new 2012 Ranger 800 XP. Love the ride, love the way it looks, hate my hot passenger seat. After a little while riding with my buddy, (I was letting him drive because he knows the trails on his deer lease better than me), my butt about burnt up. The seat gets very hot on the passenger side and in the center. Im sure during the winter it will be real nice, but in the summer it is going to suck for whoever is riding in the passenger seat. Is there anything that can fix this heat issue? I called Polaris and they said “call your dealer.” Tried to call him, but he was busy. Going to stop by there after work.

The main things that I saw online to attempt to fix this issue were
1. Reflashing the ECU
2. Change the fuel mixture so it wasn’t as lean
3. Install a lot of heat reflective material under the seat
4. Add a fan system to push air away from under the seat
Anyone have experience with this that can tell me how they fixed the issue??? Kinda pissed right now that I bought a twelve thousand dollar passenger cooker.

The early models with the engine under the seat.
Cooked your butt.
Winter didn't seem to help.
Made it tougher to work on them too.

Don't know how much of the heat shield you could get under it.

But I bet you don't have any doors on it.