So last season I chewed up some paddles on my 08 TD8 155". Turns out that sick hill I trenched up and over last season was nothing but a bunch of jagged shale rock. Thus my track suffered a bunch of bodily injury.
So I went looking for tracks this summer. I ended up scoring a great great deal on a 2011 assault 155" take off track. This was not my first choice as all you hear about is how the polaris tracks suck but it was a direct bolt in (minimal work) and i feel that lil spooling thingy on the end of my pipe might just be able to make enough track speed to make me smile. Plus you gain clearence at the front o the tunnel. Huge Huge thanks to Randy Lokey who pretty much did everything on this install. He is a AC tech in Durango and very good with the wrenchs. This job only took three hours, 1 AC tech, another drunk a$$ friend (Dan Smith), a 18 pack of coors lite and some sweet cheeba. Was not nearlyas hard as I anticipated. I learned alot so hope this thread may help somene.......
First Photo: Reason for the swap, origional 2.4 track is folded over and there are at least three more sections of track that look just like this.....
Photo #2: start by removing the secondary
Photo #3: then remove the turbo, oil tank and the chaincase cover. You will have to remove the bottom gear. On the other side remove the speedo flange.
Photo #4: Next drop the skid, 4 bolts. A tip will be to compress your skid as it will come in and out easier
Photo #5: At this point the drive shaft is ready to come out. This was easiest with two people, at times a rubber mallet and the sled on its side. Once out its time to pull the track, have a beer at half way and burn one for the snow gods.
Now you put in your new track and kinda reverse the order of operations. This is a great time to inspect some stuff. Make sure your chaincase gasket is ok. Clean your clutchs. Grease all zerks on rear skid. Check all hose and tubing for signs of dry rot. Inspect your pull start rope. Of cours make sure you have fresh fluid filled to proper levels all thru engine. Probably forgetting something but you get the point. Track tension once instlled!
Photo #6: Get the skid, chaicase, turbo... etc... etc... etc all reinstalled
Now your track is back in and you can check out the spoils of you work. You can also hear your sled echo off the surrounding mountains at 1am, Silverton is pretty quite that time of night.
Photo #7: Track is in, looks great and provides a bit more clearence up front
Photo #8: View under tunnel
Now we just need some snow to try this bad boy out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So there it is. How to spend a friday night in slverton. Hope this helps somebody as I sure learned alot. Thanks again to Randy Lokey and Dan Smith for help on the install.
So I went looking for tracks this summer. I ended up scoring a great great deal on a 2011 assault 155" take off track. This was not my first choice as all you hear about is how the polaris tracks suck but it was a direct bolt in (minimal work) and i feel that lil spooling thingy on the end of my pipe might just be able to make enough track speed to make me smile. Plus you gain clearence at the front o the tunnel. Huge Huge thanks to Randy Lokey who pretty much did everything on this install. He is a AC tech in Durango and very good with the wrenchs. This job only took three hours, 1 AC tech, another drunk a$$ friend (Dan Smith), a 18 pack of coors lite and some sweet cheeba. Was not nearlyas hard as I anticipated. I learned alot so hope this thread may help somene.......
First Photo: Reason for the swap, origional 2.4 track is folded over and there are at least three more sections of track that look just like this.....
Photo #2: start by removing the secondary
Photo #3: then remove the turbo, oil tank and the chaincase cover. You will have to remove the bottom gear. On the other side remove the speedo flange.
Photo #4: Next drop the skid, 4 bolts. A tip will be to compress your skid as it will come in and out easier
Photo #5: At this point the drive shaft is ready to come out. This was easiest with two people, at times a rubber mallet and the sled on its side. Once out its time to pull the track, have a beer at half way and burn one for the snow gods.
Now you put in your new track and kinda reverse the order of operations. This is a great time to inspect some stuff. Make sure your chaincase gasket is ok. Clean your clutchs. Grease all zerks on rear skid. Check all hose and tubing for signs of dry rot. Inspect your pull start rope. Of cours make sure you have fresh fluid filled to proper levels all thru engine. Probably forgetting something but you get the point. Track tension once instlled!
Photo #6: Get the skid, chaicase, turbo... etc... etc... etc all reinstalled
Now your track is back in and you can check out the spoils of you work. You can also hear your sled echo off the surrounding mountains at 1am, Silverton is pretty quite that time of night.
Photo #7: Track is in, looks great and provides a bit more clearence up front
Photo #8: View under tunnel
Now we just need some snow to try this bad boy out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So there it is. How to spend a friday night in slverton. Hope this helps somebody as I sure learned alot. Thanks again to Randy Lokey and Dan Smith for help on the install.
