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Arlyn Moen
Добавлен 4 июл 2011
These are some of my old sleds. As I add the videos I try (to the best of my ability) to tell a little about them. Each of these sleds bring back memories of the good old days!
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1969 Evinrude Skeeter Snowmobile
Просмотров 10 тыс.3 года назад
Our old wide track skeeter snowmobile!
Reconditioning a 1976 Polaris 250 Colt .
Просмотров 6 тыс.4 года назад
Bringing a 1976 Polaris colt snowmobile back to trail riding condition.
1965 Ski Doo RD8 Twin Track Snowmobile ????
Просмотров 8 тыс.4 года назад
Our 1965 RD8 twin track Ski Doo snowmobile. Not real sure if it's called RD8 or Alpine.
1973 338 Yamaha Snowmobile clutch Removal
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Removal of the primary clutch from the engine on a 1973- 338 Yamaha snowmobile.
1977 arctic cat panther
Просмотров 10 тыс.5 лет назад
An old Arctic Cat Panther snowmobile, not restored just fixed up.
1979 Kawasaki Intruder Snowmobile
Просмотров 14 тыс.7 лет назад
Our old 440 cc Kawasaki Intruder Snowmobile !!
1974 arctic cat 440 el tigre snowmobile
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Our old Arctic Cat 440 el tigre snowmobile
Had one as well. Great sled. Primary clutch was not the greatest but for its time it did the job.
The sound of my childhood in Michigan. Back when we received much more snow. Thank you for uploading .
The driven clutch on ours developed a bunch of hairline cracks starting at the rivets at the centre of the clutch. Kind of dangerous.
I had one. Can you still get parts for it?
Sure we're fun machines
That's what I thought my dad bought 2 one for him and 1 for my mom
50 years old Where does time go?
had one loved it colder the weather the faster it would go wish I still had it
10HP
I had one of those , my riding pals made sure to always have a tow rope when I came along.
It's an 1980
Grew up riding one of these in the 80's, still love that sound they made. Great sled, just wish it would have had more suspension in the rear if it was bumpy out.
We had a 75 Colt 250 SS, and as a kid I loved to ride it.. It was fast 😊
Thank you for this video! I will be using it for my a restoration . Beautiful machines !
I had a 1974 340FA. They handled well for that era. Their biggest draw backs were the carburetors and the clutches. When I bought mine new from the dealer they came though with Polaris clutches on the motor. That clutch was good. Then Bombardier had a recall and they sent you their square shaft clutch. It was junk. Ended up using a Comet. Worked real well.
Nice skeeter! I've got a 70 Skeeter and Skee Horse.
Very nice!
The Puma platform worked great no matter what engine it had. Mine had the Kawasaki 340, I put over 5000 miles on it.
What size are those 3 long bolts that thread into the inner sheave to pull it? Metric M6 x 1.0?
I have the same machine I’m about to put it on market place for free
Mine ran 70 mph, till i took the spirit engine off and put it on a 300 lb gocart 120.mph😂
I had one, and absolutely loved it. Good times.
it would have done a lot better on the race track if that dredded merc snow twister didn't come out the same year
I have a 77 not nearly as nice as yours, its pretty rough but still very fast runs great but the clutches are bad
Good video ,,Thanks.
Nice sled. My cousin loved his Kawasakis. I had a Kawy/SnoJet Astro that had to give away because I ran out of time and cash trying to fix it. I miss that thing. You drag that to a show and it turned heads. Arctic Cat assembled all the old Sno Jet based Drifter/ Astro chassis machines for Kawasaki under contract. Kawasaki built the Invader based machines at the ATV plant in Nebraska. They had a strict five year plan to either grow and make serious money and be a player or go home after five years. Sadly they folded shop after 1982. The sled division never really turned a big profit. No doubt Arctic Cats Bankruptcy in 1981 helped them quit the market. Behind the scenes the blame game was played. Kawy people insinuated that Cat workers left sand or filings in Kawasaki motors. Cat employees have told me that Kawy owed Arctic money and had trouble delivering parts to the Cat plant on time because of money issues. With the market shrinking rapidly at the time I’ve no doubt that dirty pool was played by some. It’s human nature. Today we have manufacturing suing each other at the drop of a hat. All trying to eat more pieces of a shrinking pie.
Nice and electric start in 69 love it . You know I don't think they needed to progress any more than like the mid-80s with the snowmobiles and same with the dirt bikes. We've taken these things too far I mean I like the new sleds a little bit but I bought a brand new 1988 Ski-Doo formula mx and you don't need anything more than that even for racing.
Great sleds
Bringing back good memories looking at that. Lived in the U.P of Michigan on a farm outside Rapid River right on the Whitefish River. Had a 74 Free air 400 identical to this one as well as a TNT 640..also had an old CR250 Elsinor dirt bike. Think it was also a 74 ...of course we had our good ole Honda 3-wheelers too! Between those and my guns, there was a very content 15 year old version of me on that 400 acre farm.
77 was my favorite! ...
PLUSIEUR MOTEUR KASAKIE SACHS JLO HURTH KOLEUR ANNÉE 1971 ENT 1972 TOUTES DES KASAKIE 1976 MOTEUR SUZOKI TOUTS
Great sled! MAGA 2024!!!
Nice vintage tiger. I had a 79 6000. If the gold braising on the manifold breaks... clean it off and braise weld it with a metal coat hanger. It will never break again.
A pair of Mikuni VM 36 Carbs would make that a very different snowmobile. Tiliston carbs were the weak point on them.
Any idea what years Massey made these? My mother and dad had one, rode it a lot! I don’t remember the 350SS sticker though.
So these had Suzuki free air engines not fan cooled?
yep, 440 and 500cc were available. Just rebuilt my '77 500.
@@kurtmuzio3077 thx
Awesome!! I believe they were owned my many companies over the years. I believe Trail-A-Sled (Scoprion) made the 68s. And you are correct OMC made them then Polaris in Manitoba i believe their last year. Very cool video!
I used to own one awesome machine i installed a 250 elan motor in it yes allot of fun and reliable .
That's the one I wanted!!! Pop's bought the damn Olympic....
299 rotax?
Nice job. I recall those Nordics were the “Cadillac” model sleds in 1970 with their 18 inch track and twin cylinder power. Seems like the slide rail would have been worth keeping.
They were a good old machine. I still have the slides Maby will put them back in just to see the difference!
One of the Best looking sleds ever made
YEP !
They have always had a metal fuel tank
Ok, thanks for the info. Thanks for looking!
You forgot to mention the nice hot air that blows strongly out the side vents
Yep!
My dad had a 73 just like that
Awesome! they are nice machines!
1971 Ext Special was the first Cat with a 15 inch track. Standard Ext used the 17 inch of the Pumas. 1972 EXT racer used a 15 also. Also not many folks know that the 1972 AMF Ski-Daddler XX race sled used Cats 15 inch EXT Special track and suspension in the smaller chassis for the 440 and smaller XX model racers. I interviewed the guy who ran the XX race team many years ago and found that one out.
Thanks. Thats good info. Thanks for looking.!
Welcome. The thing with track width/length in Arctic at the time was they were learning how to make a sled turn verses how to get the power down as the engines got stronger. The 120 something by 17 inch original Panther track was great for traction, at the time, but boy did you get arm pump racing on a snow oval. I've done some oval running on snow at track days and it's a real workout. Suspension and traction tweaks on the skis, and studs helped, but the sled beat you up. The 1970 Puma racer took the Panther and chopped off about a foot. Now the sled turned easier. Far less dead weight and drag meant more speed. However they quickly found out that 50hp and under the sled was a good racer. Put anything above a 650 in it and the thing wanted to spin out in the corners. That's why the 793 Hirth triple was a failure in the Puma chassis. No traction and tail happy. The race team worked up King Kat prototypes before the snow melted in the 1970 season and split the difference in track length between the Puma and Panther. Still using the 17 inch width. They got some stability back with the big bore triples. Meanwhile they parallel pathed the 15 inch wide track in a longer than Puma length chassis for the Special, and that gave more traction than the Puma with less weight than the KK. This worked out better for the 440 and under twins for the 1971/72 Season and led to the development of the 1973 El-Tigre sport sled. The 1971 KK sized track wasn't dumped after a season. Instead those dimensions were used on the 1972 Cheetah cruiser/sport sled. However the skid frame swing arm locations were changed to be softer riding and better in deep snow for trail use. That's why a 1972 Cheetah track will fit a 1971 KK, but a 1972 Cheetah skid frame will not.
I love your vids, brings a lot of memories.@@travistml
Buddy has one right now sitting in the weeds with a seized motor......
Boy does that bring back memories. I bought a two year old 71 Nordic when I was 14. We lived on a farm in an Island, and during the winter I would ride that Ski Doo across the frozen lake to high school in town. I had to replace the crankshaft seal twice as oil would leak into the mag, and spoil the lighting coil. Also blew one piston, probably running too hot a spark plugs. Running it beside a car, best we could estimate it could make 50mph, but I make no claims of accuracy. It was a fairly common thing to swap in a set of sliders, and remove the bogie wheel suspension. The bogie’s had springs that broke as well as the axle would break too. Naturally a bunch of teenagers getting together, we would run the heck out of these things a jump them and all kinds of crazy stuff.
Great! Thanks for sharing memories. WE had a lot of fun on these old machines!
Our Massey dealer sold a lot of these. Heavy and solid, gave a very good ride, but weighed a ton. I thought they looked pretty good, kinda reminiscent of the MF tractors being built at the time
Thanks for looking!
Arctic Cat skis?
Yep, dont remember how those got on there. At least we painted them! Thanks for looking!