my sleds first sleep over party!!

[White Rad]

My sled is on its first overnight tonight. 200 miles after replacing the planetary in my d drive it blew up for real today breaking trail in 2-3ft snow. Of course it was at the top of mountain so no towing it out even if the track would spin! Did a couple loops around my buddy to help him get unstuck and shut it off in my trail pointing down hill. after we got my buddy out fired it up and the sled didn't want to take off. didn't want to smoke my belt thought maybe all the snow in my track froze up so i tipped the sled on its side to clean out the track and noticed it would only spin 3in-4in then stop dead. after pulling the secondary checking the break side and looking for anything else in the track concluded the DD was roached! trying to find someone who will let me use his case to swap it out in the field, but its kind of like asking to sleep with your buddys wife knowing it'll come back looser than before....did i mention I hate D Drives!

 

[Woody67]

I think changing it in the field is a good plan. I have on more than one occasion been able to free up a broken diamond drive and ride it out. It is broke and a piece is bound up somewhere causing it not to turn. You may be able to break it loose and limp out. But of course breaking trail thats another story.

 

[garciava]

I would open it up and see if something broke and jamed in a gear. might able to get off the mountain any ways

 

[White Rad]

yah i thought by turning the track back and forth by hand it might free it up just enough to limp it out. the input shaft still turns when the track moves so i don't think all the planetary gears are stripped. the way the track moves a few inches before binding up it feels like something just jammed in the gears. last time i leave home without my torx bit set!! Woody too bad MBMS doesn't rent DD's would have been a hot item this year. Can i trade it in for a 10' M8 SP162 now lol.....

 

[diggerdown]

If you have reverse in the gear box, you are probably stuck in between. My buddy smoked his DD (really!) and what kept us from turning the track was that it was hanging between gears and would not turn either way. Took the cover offf and beat on the end of the plainitary a few times with a 2 1/2lb. hammer and towed it out.

 

[White Rad]

If you have reverse in the gear box, you are probably stuck in between. My buddy smoked his DD (really!) and what kept us from turning the track was that it was hanging between gears and would not turn either way. Took the cover offf and beat on the end of the plainitary a few times with a 2 1/2lb. hammer and towed it out.

thought of that too tried shifting it into reverse and back into forward shift fork didn't look like it was turning all the way so that very well could be the problem. if i can get back up there today i'll pull the case apart and look for the carnage. of course its a white out up there this morning not very pleasant for wrenching in the field...

 

[Coldfinger]

Maybe you can tow it out by putting the track on a kiddy sled or toboggan? They also sell those roll-up flat plastic sleds but I'm not sure how durable that would be.

If you could find a section of pickup truck bed liner, esp with the grooves, that would probably work great. It would keep it tracking straight and be slippery as chit.

 

[White Rad]

the truck bed liner is a good idea i have some left over from making my sled deck slides. just not sure it even possible to tow it out of this spot all uphill then downhill and they all require sidehilling. and its snowing again on top of 2-3ft we already had.

anybody ever pull all the gears but the transfer/output shaft gear and try to tow it? that way the track shaft would still be supported on both sides...

 

[aksnopro]

hm

i was 20 miles back in the mountains once when this happened, i flipped the skis around backwords and put the back of the track on another sled and pulled it out like that. it was deep snow too and did pretty good!
-Aksnopro

 

[06 RMK 900]

The buddy tows work great. I actually ride with the guy that makes them. My 900 lost all the coolant in West in January we used the buddy tow to get it out. There was about a foot of fresh snow and we just had a few sleds make a path and pulled it out.