skid plate issues, maybe an idea to cure???

[skidooboy]

posted this on ty thought i would post it here as well to get a broader range of opinions. especially from those who ride the deep fluff most of the time.

how many are having the snow build up issues with a skid plate? what have you done and what was your success in aiding the build up before it either pulls out the rivnuts on the bulkhead area, or pulls out the bolts going through the plate and front nose cone out of the front cone?

my idea is (yamaha if you are listening) to either make a one pieced updated nosecone and lower cover for the sled like the other A armed yamahas, so you are covering the lower panel with the skid plate. this leaves no way snow can get between the plate and the panel causing the above failures.

or

make a two piece skid plate, one for the nose cone with a slight extension toward the arms, and one for the lower cover bulkhead area fastening with rivnuts and the front in a wrap around manor.

i have been cleaning my plate off best possible every day, to relieve snow pressure from the plate. but i still had a front nose cone bolts on the plate rip out through the panel. i am still happy with my sled this is just one of those little things that could be improved on to make the sled overall better fore everone, short and longtrack riders. i have multiple pics of the failure including tape measure with snow/ice build up for one day of offtrail riding, leading to the failure if anyone is interested. ski

 

[firecat99]

what sled are you talking about all yammis? or one in perticular? i have a fx nytro and what i did is use that roof foming stuff that fills in the gaps then i drilled four holes were the opening is in the a-arms then used heavy dudy tie wraps and that seems to do the job for me, also i changed the screws that were supplied with the belly pan with some heavier grade bolts, all works really good never bother thinking about my belly pan falling off anymore. i had all the same problems.

 

[bdubs]

I had the issue early on as well. busted the skid plate off twice before changing the hardware to steel inserts, and added steel u bolts to the middle of the sub-frame/skid plate. Now the skid plate bows like crazy but hasn't popped off since. Have a couple of guys using the foam with the stock aluminum hardware and they haven't had the issue reoccur..

 

[skidooboy]

talking about the fx nytro chassis. fire cat you have a pic of your roof foam set up? ski