snowmobile forum

[garbageguy]

can anyone recommend a forum, anywhere near good as this one - for snowmobiles?

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: snowmobile forum

This one is pretty good. They also keep it pretty well moderated. Unlike some other ones where it seems anything goes......
Snowmobile Forum: Your #1 Snowmobile Forum

What do you have for sleds?

 

[garbageguy]

Re: snowmobile forum

Thanks WIM, I'll check it out. I've got a '98 Polaris XC 700 and a '91 Polaris Indy 500. The 500 runs great, but I'd like to do a little work on it for my daughters to use.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: snowmobile forum

I've heard a lot of good things about the 500's. I had a '96 Polaris Ultra 700 triple. Great sled. Now we have Yamaha's, just by chance. 05' RX1 and a '93 Phazer(daughters)...........

Once the snow starts falling that site will get real busy. Right now members are thinking about sledding again this year...

 

[jkust]

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That's a good forum. I've just winterized my sleds this past weekend. I had to do a full clean/disassembly of my wife's 2-up sled's carbs. And the extent of winterizing for my EFI sleds is to check specific gravity of coolant, grease the zerks, check the chain case lube, studs and slides. Oh and her new never used battery installed in November 2011 won't accept a charge after not getting maintained since early this year. Also my trail stickers expired. Can't wait to get out in the snow.

 

[rbh]

Re: snowmobile forum

That's a good forum. I've just winterized my sleds this past weekend. I had to do a full clean/disassembly of my wife's 2-up sled's carbs. And the extent of winterizing for my EFI sleds is to check specific gravity of coolant, grease the zerks, check the chain case lube, studs and slides. Oh and her new never used battery installed in November 2011 won't accept a charge after not getting maintained since early this year. Also my trail stickers expired. Can't wait to get out in the snow.

Try a pulse style battery charger as they desulfide the plates, as long as they did not freeze it should do the job.

2002 700 summit, 1975 640 alpine twin track (with mods LOL)

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: snowmobile forum

I have to winterize both sleds too. Last spring I basically parked them in the shed, turned the key off and covered them.....

 

[avenger79]

Re: snowmobile forum

had a couple Polaris 500's. they were very good to me. Been getting the bug to get back out there lately, got rid of the sleds a few years back. good snow years are great for me as the trails are right by the house. no trailer needed.

 

[jkust]

Re: snowmobile forum

Try a pulse style battery charger as they desulfide the plates, as long as they did not freeze it should do the job.

2002 700 summit, 1975 640 alpine twin track (with mods LOL)

Thanks, I'm in the market now for a new charger as mine stopped working. This battery most certainly froze last season. I'd start the sled every now and then to keep everything working because I paid to have it gone through and wanted to keep it running then I went to start it after a snowfall last year to actually use it and killed it trying to start the sled but never got round to putting a charger on it so im sure it froze. I then hopped on my EFI sled and rode away. I will never buy an non-efi of anything ever again.

Is that Alpine restored or original?

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: snowmobile forum

had a couple Polaris 500's. they were very good to me. Been getting the bug to get back out there lately, got rid of the sleds a few years back. good snow years are great for me as the trails are right by the house. no trailer needed.

Same here. An "access" trail goes right by my driveway. Less than 1/4 mile away I jump on a un-plowed road to the trails. It is a sweet setup. The access trail has very little activity on it so I only hear a few sleds every now and then. House is tucked back a little too with woods in between me and the road which helps... The last few years the sledding has been less than stellar, however....... They've been getting more snow south of us....

 

[rbh]

Re: snowmobile forum

Well it is original in the fact that I have never pulled the motor apart or changed tracks, 'but' the front ski was replaced with a vmax ski and shock/spring assembly and there is a 38mm mikuni feeding it instead of the old tillitson HD that was a pig of a carb.
Factory skidoo tach and the best is the new exhaust polaris pipe and muffler instead of the old box style muffler, and to add, a comet clutch with white spring.

46 MPH at about 6500 rpm, any faster and it goes into a side to side wobble.

 

[82rude]

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99 670 h.o. mxz here.added reverse and a 2 stage throttle to it .might as well say its almost pristine condition with just over 2 grand in miles .these ho,s were sleepers as they were actually dyno,ed in a rag at 140 hp, far over advertised hp.neddless to say 196 studs help her along.hope to ride this year as last was a wash due to carpel tunnel in the right limb.hand was basically useless till the operation and now its just great.

 

[hungupthespikes]

Re: snowmobile forum

dootalk.com
It's not all Skidoo. Lots of tips on GPS, trails, general...........

 

[jkust]

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MN is so cold that there's generally snow somewhere in the state. As astounding as it sounds, we have 22,000 (twenty two thousand) miles of groomed trails and an astronomical number of miles of un-groomed trails/ditches. Grooming is all done by volunteers and the majority of the trails go through private property. While I live in a metropolis, I'm on the very farthest edge of it and about 20 seconds from a groomed trail head via sled. If it wasn't for our snow and snowmobiles, I don't know how I'd make it through until boating season. Non snow years are tough to get through.

 

[oldjeep]

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I just dragged one of the sleds back from the lake place when I stored my boat. 2002 Skidoo 700 grand touring. Silly thing started not idling down last year, seems like some sort of air leak in the carb setup. Even when there isn't snow, the lake is usually good for some sledding.

 

[jkust]

Re: snowmobile forum

I just dragged one of the sleds back from the lake place when I stored my boat. 2002 Skidoo 700 grand touring. Silly thing started not idling down last year, seems like some sort of air leak in the carb setup. Even when there isn't snow, the lake is usually good for some sledding.

Wife has a 583 Grand Touring. The Grand Touring's ride like luxury cars compared to my ZR 600 which is like a car without suspension.
Spray something from a spray can around the rubber boot of the carb and if the idle changes, you found the leak. I just cleaned the carbs in her sled which I hadn't ever done before and it is really easy. Her sled is the reason I hate carbs but at the time I couldn't find a two up with EFI anywhere so had to go carb.

 

[oldjeep]

Re: snowmobile forum

Wife has a 583 Grand Touring. The Grand Touring's ride like luxury cars compared to my ZR 600 which is like a car without suspension.
Spray something from a spray can around the rubber boot of the carb and if the idle changes, you found the leak. I just cleaned the carbs in her sled which I hadn't ever done before and it is really easy. Her sled is the reason I hate carbs but at the time I couldn't find a two up with EFI anywhere so had to go carb.

On the 700 it is a pain to get the airbox and carbs on and off. I like the skidoo better as a sled, but for working on I prefer our 2000 Polaris 600 touring.

 

[jkust]

Re: snowmobile forum

On the 700 it is a pain to get the airbox and carbs on and off. I like the skidoo better as a sled, but for working on I prefer our 2000 Polaris 600 touring.

If it is like the 583, it takes a bit of finessing I agree. I dislike that the battery is behind the airbox so you can't easily tend the battery without a full airbox removal then removing the rubber case over the battery. Is the 700 a bear to pull start as in when the battery is dead? The 583 is amazingly hard to pull compared to my Arctic Cat 600. There's no way you could pull it while holding the throttle down to clear the carbs if you were alone. I've never done a compression test but holy crap.

 

[oldjeep]

Re: snowmobile forum

The 700 battery is to the side of the airbox.

As for pull starting - I've never tried. If the battery was dead then there would be no way to get it to move in reverse (since the reverse button stops the engine and restarts it backwards)

 

[jkust]

Re: snowmobile forum

The 700 battery is to the side of the airbox.

As for pull starting - I've never tried. If the battery was dead then there would be no way to get it to move in reverse (since the reverse button stops the engine and restarts it backwards)

Interesting...I didn't think of that. Both my sleds have the manual reverse. We haven't upgraded since one has 2300 miles and the other is at about 2700ish. Can't see upgrading until we actually get some serious use out of them. They are both 98's but garage queens. I've been snooping on Craigslist a bit for fun though and you can get some mid 2000's for cheap that have the new body style. Good sleds like good boat motors seem to hit a general price floor where it isn't that much more $ to sell them and buy something 7 years newer. Also, I don't think there is anything that depreciates as fast as a snowmobile.