Looking to purchase a tunnel from Snowdawg and Im curious how much work is involved in swapping my damaged tunnel to a new one? Anybody done this and know the level of involvement something like this entails..........
Difficulty of swapping tunnels?
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Oregonsledder
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Not a big deal, just keep track of what bolts go where. A good air ratchet will speed things up. A shop manual for torque specs is important when putting it back together.
I respectfully disagree, swapping stock tunnel for stock tunnel is simply a matter of lining up the few stock pop rivets the factory uses to line everything up before they pierce rivet the rest. The hardest part is grinding the pierce rivets off flush so you can free the stock tunnels and effect the swap.
Building a sled from scratch is way more work. Trust me.
If you really jam, one guy could do it in a weekend.
LH has a point about the rivets. One thing I have noticed is that the factory pop-rivets have CNC'd, precision holes where the self-piercing rivets are "point and shoot" on the assembly line. In other words, the SP holes are not always going to be in the same place! So, if the old SP holes of each part don't line up, do we end up with giant hole that you need a 3/8" rivet to fill?
a whole weekend??? heck i'm sure half the guys on here would only need a couple of hours and a six packoh i'm sorry that's how long it would take them to talk about how fast and easy it is to do, my bad!!!
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If you have to ask you probably dont wanna try...lol Since he stated it wasnt a stock swap and most aftermarket tunnels dont come with any holes in them it is basically tearing the sled down to parts and rebuilding it. I have done two sleds and it can be done but it took many hours and a lot of measuring and drilling and getting more parts and so on and so forth. Most dealers charge a minimum of 10 hrs to swap a tunnel. But if you are very meticulous and like to work on your sled it can be fun
