Year end km and damage.

[geo]

Yeah the geared down set-up RMS. I kinda copied and converted his helix to Tied #'s and finally happy with the Tied.

What I notice with too long a belt is lower track speed. Kinda gets stuck at 40ish and a swap to the stock belt builds past that right away.
Even without that, after break-in and some time, I have to leave my deflection too loose or the cord is out of the secondary too much.
My C to C is .040" too short (not very much) after I got my parallelism to where my belt liked it (.050"ish). I think an easy shifting secondary helps here a lot.

 

[damx]

MM I put on about 60-70 km a ride when the snow is deep and were in steep trees most the day. End of the year in hero snow 110-130 km, looking for new areas to ride that sleds never been before.

 

[Matte Murder]

Your reliability results actually look pretty good except for the clutch belts. No blown motors, bad injecotrs, TPS issues etc. You didn't seem to have any of the "common" Pro issues. Belts look like they average 300-500 km which is about half what we have seen. I bet your buddy with 9 belts isn't too happy about that. I look at belts as a wear part and I replace them when performance suffers, haven't had many belts actually blow but some guys look at them like a chain and cry if they ever have to put a new one on. Same with the QD belts. If I got 1500km on one and it blew I wouldn't break a sweat over it. Did you repair the tubes that came unglued or did you replace them? Are you riding in the trees or is it more open so you guys are flipper to the bar for most of the day?

 

[damx]

We think the damage is not bad, if you seen the abuse then you would Probley agree. Buddy with 9 belts does not care that much, he is a mechine only time that sled stop is if he is stuck or someone else is and he is helping. If friends with doo or cat try and make fun on the belt life. He just rides there sled and the cores pull out of the belt just the same.lol or blow up on the cats. As for the tubes. Polaris replaced the hole carbon fiber over structures. We ride the trees the most lots of on off the gas. Not much full out climbing only to gets to the good spots.

 

[trees happen]

Last day on baker and hopped a Creek snow bank to snow bank no rocks or anything and my tunnel buckled a little right rear behind the boards only about a 10mph hop even let off the throttle on the landing to make sure not too hurt the quick drive 2014 with less than 200 miles what the HELL!

 

[AKtoad]

14 assault with 500ish mountain miles this year. Alaska had the worst winter in 20'years so 500 isn't to bad. After disassembling everything the day I picked up the sled to loctite and torqued everything the sled ran perfect. I had several fasteners that were hand tight straight from the dealer. The dealer gave me a couple new belts for my trouble although I am still on the original belt with zero belt dust and pulling R's. A2D clutch setup, zbroz spring kit all the way around, OFT steering blocks and major revalving all from day one made the sled perfect. All the guys I know that are in and out of the flipper all day that don't have throttle control all blow belts.