Replacing a 151" track on a Polaris 32mi from the closest trail in very steep terrain. Then another 36mi on a trail to the parking lot. Had to go back the second day riding double to haul in the new track and install it.
Whats your biggest repair job in the field
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Nice field work. You can ride with me anytime
BTW that is another broken track because excessive Poo HP?
BTW that is another broken track because excessive Poo HP?Broken flywheel. Had to saw the broken piece off and replace with new one. That part was alot easier than riding in and out double!!
Left side drive bearing went out, banged a bogie wheel bearing on to get it home.
I've been in on a couple motor jobs where we went back the next day. Once we didn't have a spare jug and had to use a little cordless dremel type tool to remove the chucks of Aluminium that was on the cylinder, the a cordless drive to hone the jugs after.
The Same clown used to carry a spare Mono cylinder and top end kit in his backpack back in the old SRX days (Early 80's SRX)
Come to thing of it we are always working on his "stuff"
(you know who you are)
The Same clown used to carry a spare Mono cylinder and top end kit in his backpack back in the old SRX days (Early 80's SRX)
Come to thing of it we are always working on his "stuff"
(you know who you are)
Yarded my motor cause it broke a crank. No way to haul sled out. Went back in the next week after it was rebuilt and put it back in and rode it out with 3' of fresh powder.
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sodfarmer
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Last year on the deepest day of the year I was breaking trail when my track decided to develop a constant ratchet due to the 8 in rear wheels breaking. My buddy rode back to the trailer to steal 2 6 1/4 in wheels to get me back to the truck. Put the wheels on, rode back to the truck, drilled 4 new holes to move the suspension back to get the track tight enough, and down the trail we went again. Worked awesome rest of the day.
Biggest repair job in the field
I lost the chaincase on my son's sled and we were over 9 miles from the closest trail/road. Doubled up going home and went back the next day with the case off my friend's sled to swap out with the broken one. Pulled my son in the 9 miles on his snowboard. "No way am I riding double with you, again!" he told me. So I pulled his arms off for over 9 miles. Was he glad when I got it going again. Had to tear it apart, again, as soon as we got out to put my friends sled back together. What great adventures!!!!!
I lost the chaincase on my son's sled and we were over 9 miles from the closest trail/road. Doubled up going home and went back the next day with the case off my friend's sled to swap out with the broken one. Pulled my son in the 9 miles on his snowboard. "No way am I riding double with you, again!" he told me. So I pulled his arms off for over 9 miles. Was he glad when I got it going again. Had to tear it apart, again, as soon as we got out to put my friends sled back together. What great adventures!!!!!
i swear you have to be half farmer to be a sledder! lol
uh...topping off the oil, but then my 700 Edge RMK is bulletproof.
(sorry fellers...couldn't resist)
(sorry fellers...couldn't resist)
I can't beat those guys! i've used bailing wire to make a new throttle cable,had to strap a log to both ski's on a polaris cause he broke his shock. Had to use a tree winch to pull a sled up one carvass down another up the next hill to where we could tow a sled. 8hrs later we got it out and the guy bearly says thanks !! What we will do to have fun!!!! Let it snow!!!let it snow !!!!
I always carry some old, (inner tube), rubber straps, very handy for lots of things. At least three times over the years they have been used to secure a stick across the skis to replace a broken tierod end.
swapped motors twice in 2 days. stator went on my '01 'doo about 30 miles and 3 ranges in, 7 of us hand bombed it up the last 200 yards of the first range, towed it into the next bowl and couldn't get out no how. yanked the engine and hauled it to town, swapped it with a buddy's same '01 'doo, went back and installed his engine in my sled. made it out of the bowl into the next one, and his motor dies....diagnosis....stator! wtf....yanked his motor out, went back to town, ran into a guy that knew the local 'doo mechanic while drowning our sorrows in the bar. 'doo mechanic puts new stator in my engine at 10pm on easter sunday for the cost of the stator (thanks Ken @ highmark in Chetwynd), we go back the next day and install engine and rode 'er out. all this with 4 broken ribs and a cracked sternum sustained while riding double out on the first day, and buddy tried to gap a creek 2 up on an 800 summit.
that was my worst weekend EVER in the mountains.
that was my worst weekend EVER in the mountains.
Mess
I carry e clips in my jet board, $20.00 a piece on the mountain.
Lifted the cylinders off a Doo in northern Idaho one day when the base gasket blew out. Caught the antifreeze in a plastic sandwitch bag that we lined a hole in the snow with. He had doubled up the base gaskets and used silicone on them. Slippery as could be. We cleaned them off good and prick punched the top of the case. Put it back together and it was fine.
Snapped a drive shaft in half up on the ridge one day. Pulled the track out and tied it to the rear bumper. Put the slide rail back in and towed it out. Only problem NO brakes.
Watched 3 guys put a new piston in a XLT about 10 miles in the back country. Sled had been sitting on a lake for about a month. They had to chop it out of the ice with an axe before they could ride it out.
I carry e clips in my jet board, $20.00 a piece on the mountain.
Lifted the cylinders off a Doo in northern Idaho one day when the base gasket blew out. Caught the antifreeze in a plastic sandwitch bag that we lined a hole in the snow with. He had doubled up the base gaskets and used silicone on them. Slippery as could be. We cleaned them off good and prick punched the top of the case. Put it back together and it was fine.
Snapped a drive shaft in half up on the ridge one day. Pulled the track out and tied it to the rear bumper. Put the slide rail back in and towed it out. Only problem NO brakes.
Watched 3 guys put a new piston in a XLT about 10 miles in the back country. Sled had been sitting on a lake for about a month. They had to chop it out of the ice with an axe before they could ride it out.
Unstabbed a track once, replaced the wheels and braces, but wow. Some of you could open a machine shop in the backcountry!
I've been on a chaincase replacement.
I sucked a huge through my carbs once. It held on a nitrous nozzle. I think it was about a 7/16" socket size. Changed the spark plug, got the debris out of my pipes and fired it up and kept riding. LOL THAT one was the luckiest I've been. WHEW!!!!
I've done a couple of my own suspensions with a ratchet strap to get out.
I've gone out 20 miles without a water-pump belt. Had to climb out of 5 bowls to get that one out. NOT fun when you've got about 15 seconds of WFO time before you gotta pack the cyls with snow. LOL
I sucked a huge through my carbs once. It held on a nitrous nozzle. I think it was about a 7/16" socket size. Changed the spark plug, got the debris out of my pipes and fired it up and kept riding. LOL THAT one was the luckiest I've been. WHEW!!!!
I've done a couple of my own suspensions with a ratchet strap to get out.
I've gone out 20 miles without a water-pump belt. Had to climb out of 5 bowls to get that one out. NOT fun when you've got about 15 seconds of WFO time before you gotta pack the cyls with snow. LOL
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diggerdown
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Put a new center cylinder in a thundercat standing in a creek at 10,000'
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