wait one second. bogeys and leaf springs on a sled from 1988? how on earth did Ski Doo stay in business? why, the John Deere trailfire I'm working on has great slide rail suspension, and it's nine years older than this thing! ah well. nice video, good restore, just a bit surprised at skidoo engineer's lack of innovation.
Part of what made them so special was the simplicity. I had one in 1976 as a ten year old. Air cooled, boggie wheel suspension. As a kid didn’t have to worry about slide rails sticking because of low snow, and if it got stuck it was light enough for me to get it out by myself. Pulled a tube around the block for all the neighbor hood kids for years. I think my dad paid $1000.00 for it brand new in 1976.
@@mikebennett9356 I know, and of course i love the old bogie machines. I was surprised I suppose, because most companies jump at the chance to make something "new and improved". Gthe only thing I don't like about them is the track drive sprockets. The way they fit into holes in the tracks causes much more wear than the other style with internal driver lugs. I had to replace an old track and drivecsproclet system lile that recently. Not fun! But I sure would love to have an elan myself. (Probably a 70s, any earlier than that and the tracks have dry rotted.)
My parents bought me one when I was a kid. Put it through heck and it never left me stranded. Lived it.
Sweet job, good work. I had 5 of 10 running this winter. Hope you had a good winter.
Bah ha ha ha ha! Those bad bad mahn!
I bought an elan ss recently. The ol'chic magnet.
Nice! I had a 1972 Olympic 399, lots of good times.
Who did you sell the machine too. I was looking at one of these last weekend. I am up in canada. Near ottawa
Great video. Do you still have the sled?
I sold it not long after the restoration.
I have too ski-doo elan 1988
What brand and colour code is that primer that you used? From here it looks like the proper shade for my 1979 elan
It's just Tremclad brush on from a local hardware store.
Where were you getting parts from?
www.denniskirk.com/
wait one second. bogeys and leaf springs on a sled from 1988? how on earth did Ski Doo stay in business? why, the John Deere trailfire I'm working on has great slide rail suspension, and it's nine years older than this thing! ah well. nice video, good restore, just a bit surprised at skidoo engineer's lack of innovation.
It was the longest running, essentially unchanged model in snowmobile history.
@@mikec7903 Oh, I know, and it's quite a good model. still, Skidoo didn't seem willing to innovate and change their sleds very often.
Part of what made them so special was the simplicity. I had one in 1976 as a ten year old. Air cooled, boggie wheel suspension. As a kid didn’t have to worry about slide rails sticking because of low snow, and if it got stuck it was light enough for me to get it out by myself. Pulled a tube around the block for all the neighbor hood kids for years. I think my dad paid $1000.00 for it brand new in 1976.
@@mikebennett9356 I know, and of course i love the old bogie machines. I was surprised I suppose, because most companies jump at the chance to make something "new and improved". Gthe only thing I don't like about them is the track drive sprockets. The way they fit into holes in the tracks causes much more wear than the other style with internal driver lugs. I had to replace an old track and drivecsproclet system lile that recently. Not fun! But I sure would love to have an elan myself. (Probably a 70s, any earlier than that and the tracks have dry rotted.)