Interesting facts...

[jimvw57]

When Kawasaki sleds first came out, all the bolts faced the same direction.. Seems they built them from one side of a conveyor ..

[Interceptor398]

[drifterdude440]

Interesting.  Maybe parts were installed with the first few parts (rear suspension) on its side?  Didn't Artic Cat factories build the first year and a half or so Kawasakis?

[Tory944]

At least Kawi did their best to install "all" the bolts...  as far as I know.   Nothing has fallen off yet.  My cat on the other hand, well we won't get into that.

[kawhead]

cat built the drifters....

[Drifter]

cat built the drifters....

interesting...

If its not hijacking this post...what's the history on the little inviter...hardly ever spoke of here, but looks a lot like a snojet to me.

[Lloyd (ljm)]

 Inviter, and Intriguer 's  I beleive are basically rebadged Sno-Jet's  If I'm not mistaken Astro and SST 's.

 They evolved slightly into the Drifter's

 Great sleds all of them.

[tomahawkcat]

i do know of all the parts books i have the kawasaki parts books are by far the best, they even give what size the nuts and bolts are and the lenght of each bolt, i never seen another parts book do this, it sure makes thing a lot easier when rebuilding things you just write down what you need and go to the hardware store 

[77SST340]

Interesting fact about the Inviter.  A sled that I remember being almost unstoppable in deep snow when I was 19 years old and 170lbs seems to get buried quite easily at 47 years old and 300lbs.

All I can come up with is that the consistency of the snow today must be a lot different than it was almost 30 years ago.