Lets see your trail fixes!

[nelsonna]

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Broken hanble bars with thirty miles back to pickup.

 

[nelsonna]

 

[skibreeze]

Thank a rock for this one. Broke the shock, popped the t/a off the rear bushing. The tree worked extremely well.

 

[Bubba700]

No pic, couple weeks ago had a top bolt come out of the left front shock about 4 miles from the pickup, ended up pulling a idler off and used the bolt to baby it back to the pickup, nothing like robbing bolts from one part to fix another one. lol

 

[sodfarmer]

Back in 1982 my family was riding. Me, my mom and dad, sister, and brother. My dad went up a hill to see how far we could go and did not come back for a long time which really freaked me out since he had broke his femur the previous year in a snowmobile accident. So after 1/2 hour or so he comes back with an aspen branch lashed between the 2 ski with bailing twine. He had broke a rod end and this was his solution. Pretty ingenious. Plus looking back I find it funny he had bailing twine on his sled. Sled was a 1980 Kawasaki Invader 440.

 

[Aug]

On Friday a phazer had the bottom clamp come lose on the steering column. Couldn't get to it from the top so we cut a hole in the belly pan to get at it, then found all the parts hiding in the sled.

 

[sledhed84]

Back in 1982 my family was riding. Me, my mom and dad, sister, and brother. My dad went up a hill to see how far we could go and did not come back for a long time which really freaked me out since he had broke his femur the previous year in a snowmobile accident. So after 1/2 hour or so he comes back with an aspen branch lashed between the 2 ski with bailing twine. He had broke a rod end and this was his solution. Pretty ingenious. Plus looking back I find it funny he had bailing twine on his sled. Sled was a 1980 Kawasaki Invader 440.

lol.............. i had to do the exact same thing two years ago expect instead of bailing twine i used a tie down

 

[mike taylor]

here is a new adjustable rails set goes from 121" to 166"
broke em climbing a chute hit rock at top.
28 miles from home

 

[yammerhammer]

Thank a rock for this one. Broke the shock, popped the t/a off the rear bushing. The tree worked extremely well.

I member that one Dave and I remember right, I blew a cooler hose on the Viper that day also. Jeffro rode 10 miles back to get me some antifreeze as I changed the hose. Man that was a cold Motha F'er too!

 

[shortstop20]

here is a new adjustable rails set goes from 121" to 166"
broke em climbing a chute hit rock at top.
28 miles from home

Are the '09 rails not that strong or did you hit it pretty hard? Why did you change the whole skid out for an '08 skid?

 

[Shelfrost]

My most ingenius fix was on an 06 M7. I broke the throttle cable coming out of the adjuster to the throttle bodies. I intertwined the cable ends together and melted yellow nylon rope into it, smoothed it out and rode all day. Ordered part and had to wait, so rode it for another 3 rides. Kept it as a spare.

 

[yardfarmer]

Carbon fiber / pine branch /duct tape trailing arm..., got me 10 miles back to the parking lot

 

[trikerider]

Here's one from another thread.
http://www.snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120184&highlight=hyfax

 

[Scott]

I'll dig up pics of when I broke the rear bottom rail shock mount on my Holz skid. I ratcheted the suspension back up and roder back to the truck...have done that thrice on the same skid on the same part.

I sold it after the third one.

Sure is a rough ride out when you have a solid skid with no absorbsion. LOL

 

[bdoe22]

had this one a few years ago....this guy went off a jump and came down wrong....folded the ski under the sled and broke the bottom ball joint, bent the shock, lower arm etc.....bunje worked great and he was able to ride about 10 miles back to the truck.....

 

[mike taylor]

Are the '09 rails not that strong or did you hit it pretty hard? Why did you change the whole skid out for an '08 skid?

it hit real hard put the 08 skid in it to get 28miles back to the trailer
dealer called back today the sled in that pic has $8,500 damage done to it

 

[Beels]

I was putting some miles on Hobbes' 1150 for him at Cooke and tagged a rock back in Sheep. Broke the inner tie rod end on one side and had to limp it back to town.

 

[tubblemaker]

I broke the ball off my oiler cable. unscrewed the top off a sparkplug crimped it on with a leatherman, and rode a few times till a new cabel came in.

 

[JMCX]

We had to use hose clamps and a little persuasion to coax this custom jack-shaft bearing into place. Sled made it out 40km no problem.

 

[jimmy buffet]

will look for pics

had a chain puller holding a engine down because it snapped the motor mounts....rode about 35 miles and it worked....clutch hooked up great let me tell you, but we made it back!