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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mswyka on November 03, 2019, 06:37:05 PM
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The season has officially started. The first sled is out of the machine shed and into the garage.
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Va hooo!!!!!! ;D I started my boiler last week, only reason is cold weather is here.
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We had 5 inches of the white stuff on the ground Friday morning. It's gone now, but was exciting while it lasted!
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Va hooo!!!!!! ;D I started my boiler last week, only reason is cold weather is here.
I am impressed. We barely made it to October before firing the boiler.
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We had 5 inches of the white stuff on the ground Friday morning. It's gone now, but was exciting while it lasted!
Friday must have been an exciting morning. There are rumors of a few inches here later this week.
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Va hooo!!!!!! ;D I started my boiler last week, only reason is cold weather is here.
I am impressed. We barely made it to October before firing the boiler.
I stalled as long as I could.
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Didn't think that I had much to do on this sled - just change the fuel needles that didn't seem to be fully seating at the end of last season. Found that my fuel lines were cracked and leaking. I must be using the wrong fuel line.
Are there any fuel lines that work for more than 5 years?
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I've been using Tygon fuel line. More expensive but seems to last forever.
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Stainless steel brake lines seem to hold up they also make the braided steel
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Stainless steel in the tank, brilliant Sproket. If a plane flies upside down that hose in the tank with the brass clunk heads for gravity and the plane keeps flying. On a sled, if your upside down, your not driving anywhere.
Hard pipe to the fuel pump. Hard line to somewhere near the carb ports. Last a short piece of Tygon from hard line to carb.
Damned alcohol, except in my shot glass.
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Two more sleds out of the machine shed today. Snow coming Sunday.
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Heavy, wet snow has been falling since 10:00 AM yesterday. It has amounted to about 8 inches stuff that does not want to plow or blow. Never had to work so hard to clear the driveway before.
But the good news is that my upstate stomping grounds picked up about 18 inches. Bodes well for an early start to the season.
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Uhg. We got a ton of snow but then got a bunch of rain and now the entirety of south eastern south dakota is just a flat plain of ice.
not a huge deal because my sleds are all still in my dad's shop 2.5 hours north of me any ways... I need to quit forking around being poor so I can buy a decent trailer. Or alternatively a decent lot with my own shop lmao.
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We didn't have a sled trailer until recently. It opened up a new world of possibilities for us. It was an open trailer and we had to plan our trips for days the roads were clear. Gave up on that and added a SnoCap this year.
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This afternoon's photo from the top of the hill.
This is the 78 that has been topping out at 50 mph. We dropped from 150 mains to 145. Still need to get out on the lake to see if that change has made any difference.
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Gorgeous day here in New York. So much so, that I thought it would be a good day to get another pair of sleds out of the machine shed. So we set to work on the TOC and one of the Intruders that we want to take up to the camp. Neither one wanted to do much initially. Finally just about when I was going to give up the TOC fired up. What a sled, the ride home was exhilarating - snow flying, skis in the air - what snowmobiling should be and, at least around here, so seldom is.
Then it was time for the Intruder. That turned out to be a different story. Either the primary or the secondary was not working so it was going about 10 MPH at 5000 RPM. And then, half way home in a place that has historically been called the "Rabbit Swamp" and I am sure by the name you can imagine why, she bogged and revved, bogged and revved and then finally just quit. After the long walk of shame back to the highway so my wife could pick me up, I took the TOC out to pull the Intruder home. And of course, I get it home and it drives into the garage like nothing is wrong.
But, a gorgeous day none the less.
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Split end on the pick-up line for the primer
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Primers and primer lines are a week spot.
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Turns out that the secondary is frozen to the shaft. I cannot get it to separate and I have yet to get it to come off the shaft.
I am open to suggestions on removing the secondary. Of course it might be easier just to swap in a new jackshaft.
Thoughts?
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Some kind of penetrating and a few days of waiting??
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I should buy stock in PB Blaster.
Spraying morning and night for the last two days. Put a puller on one side and gave it a good whack with a sledge hammer from the other side and she is now off the sled. Now to find a suitable replacement.
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Waiting for a new voltage regulator, and the next storm.