What Comes Off a Grizzly or Kodiak

What the flag means for you

An owner reads a flag against their machine that says body parts have to come off, and wants three things: which parts, how long it takes, and whether they go back on afterwards. Camso publishes none of the three. It publishes a letter and a line of legend text, which is more than the other manufacturer in this catalogue publishes, and far less than the question needs.

Camso flags this application but does not publish what interferes, so the answer has to come from whoever installs it. Ask what comes off your model year, and whether it goes back on with the tracks fitted. What the flag does tell you is below: which rows carry it, what sits beside it, and which questions are worth asking in writing.

The three questions an owner arrives with are answered by one frame and by nothing else on this page. Nobody has taken it, so what follows is the published record and the questions it leaves open, which is a smaller thing than an answer and is not offered as one.

What the flag actually says

The condition string the catalogue carries is Temporary body parts removal. Matched against the legend printed at the head of Camso’s own application guide, it is remark C. That legend is the whole of the published definition:

A* Certain rectriction apply
B* Suspension lift kit required
C* Temporary body parts removal
E* Important speed reduction
F* No compliance with accessories
G* Permanent interference
H* Vehicle with cargo box
J* CVT/AIR intake vent kit recommanded
K* Temporary vehicule modification
Minor modification and light interference are possible on any modelCamso ATV/UTV Track System Application Guide, August 2026 revision, remarks legend, read 2026-09-26. The guide is published as a PDF; spellings are Camso’s own and are not corrected here.

It is a category name, not a procedure. It says some body part is in the way and that the situation is temporary rather than permanent; it does not say which part, on which machine, in which model year, or what “temporary” costs in labour. The standing sentence above the legend is the only other thing Camso says on the subject, and it applies to every row in the document rather than to these.

That standing sentence cuts the other way too. A row with no flag has no published condition — a statement about the document, not about the machine. Camso says minor modification is possible on any model, which is the manufacturer declining to guarantee the absence a blank row implies.

Which rows carry it

3 of the 17 applications carrying this condition are filed under one of these two nameplates, and 2 of those are Ultramatic rows.

Two things in that table matter more than the row count.

First, 2 of those rows name both machines in one title. Across the whole Grizzly-and-Kodiak block of the catalogue there are 4 titles written that way. The flag is attached to the row, and the row covers two nameplates, so the catalogue cannot tell you whether the condition was established on the badge you own. Take that question to the shop rather than reading it out of the table.

Second, this is not the only flag these nameplates carry. 2 distinct condition strings appear across the whole Grizzly-and-Kodiak block — Temporary Vehicle modification (K) and Temporary body parts removal (C). Only Temporary body parts removal is the flag described above. The other sits on 550 Grizzly FI Auto 4X4 / EPS / LE / S-LE (2009-2014). Both strings begin with the word temporary in Camso's own wording, and they are still separate legend entries that the catalogue keeps apart — so searching a nameplate and finding “a temporary flag” is not enough to know which condition was published.

The flag is not a Yamaha problem

Counted by the catalogue rows carrying it, this string ranks 1 of 6 distinct published conditions, on 38 records — the top of that list as the catalogue stands. Merged into one row per machine it lands on 17 applications across 4 makes.

The other 14 applications sit on CFMOTO, Kawasaki, Polaris and Yamaha rows, listed in full below. If you own one of those, the flag on your row is the same flag: not a quirk of one model, but a condition that runs across the category.

What the other manufacturer publishes on the same machines

The catalogue holds 99 application records under these two nameplates across 76 distinct row titles. 59 of those records are Commander WS4 rows, and 0 of them carry a published condition. The remaining 40 are Camso rows, of which 12 carry one.

Kimpex publishes no per-application condition data at all: every Commander WS4 record in this catalogue has an empty remarks field. The absence of a WS4 entry below means nobody has published a condition for it — not that none exists. Camso is the only manufacturer here that publishes these flags, so this page is necessarily a Camso view of the catalogue.

So both manufacturers publish these nameplates and only one of them publishes conditions at all. If you are comparing a flagged Camso row against an unflagged Commander row, you are not comparing two findings — you are comparing a finding against a field nobody filled in. The 2 condition strings that occur anywhere in this block of the catalogue all come from one manufacturer. On the Commander, the question of what comes off has to be asked rather than looked up.

Where the fitment answer lives

ATVtracks.net publishes machine pages for both of these nameplates, computed from the live commerce catalogue: which rows apply to your model year, what the kit consists of, and what hardware it needs. That is where to resolve fitment, because it moves when the catalogue does.

• Yamaha Grizzly — computed from the live catalogue, and the page to trust for that machine.
• Yamaha Kodiak — computed from the live catalogue, and the page to trust for that machine.

For the same flags read across machine age, see tracks for a thirty-year-old quad; for the register of what no manufacturer publishes at all, see what nobody publishes.

If the tracks are going on your machine

Whether a shop does it or you do, the flag turns into a handful of practical decisions on the day. These are worth settling before the first fastener moves.

1. Photograph each panel before anything is loosened, with the fasteners visible. That photograph is what a refit is checked against, and it takes a minute.
2. Bag and label the fasteners per panel rather than into one tray. Panels on these machines rarely use one size throughout, and a leftover bolt at the end of a day is a puzzle nobody wants.
3. Establish for each part whether it is off for access during the install or stays off while the tracks are on. The legend does not separate those two, and they are different things to live with.
4. Ask whether any clips, grommets or captive fasteners have to be replaced once disturbed, and get them on the same order as the kit rather than a week later.
5. If a rack, box, winch or guard mounts to anything that comes off, work out what carries it for the season before the tracks go on.
6. Note whether the machine still fits its trailer, shed door and ramp with the panel off and the units on. Track systems change the width and the height as well as the ground clearance.

What to ask before ordering

Four questions for the shop, none of which the catalogue can answer:

• Which parts the flag refers to on thismodel year, and whether the answer came from Camso or from a shop’s own experience. Both are useful; they are not the same claim.
• Whether the parts are off for the install or off for the season, and whether the machine is road-legal, carrying racks or usable as normal in that state.
• On a row that names two nameplates, which machine the condition was established on. If nobody knows, that is the answer, and it is worth having in writing.
• Whether the shop has done this machine before, and what it charged. Installation labour is not published by anybody — see doing it yourself and the warranty for what the published terms do and do not cover.