1971 Arctic Cat Snowmobile Sitting 15+ years! Will it Run!?!?!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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You are now the proud owner of the original anti-snow device. Owning one of these practically guarantees that it will never snow enough in your area to actually use this device again.
YUP Black cloud boy here... Bought a used JAG 440 in 2014...Fixed it up to relive my childhood..and Snow in Rochester, NY.
Has been sh^* ever since .. specially when I am not working and can get time to ride.
Hahahaha ain't that the truth I spent almost three years and hundreds of hours and a grand later restoring a 73 John Deere 440...I've rode it I think 4 times....🤣😂🤣😂👍 Central NY
Bought one for this winter, its my first snowmobile, and we have not had enough snow yet, google photos keeps showing me pictures titled "one year ago today", and "2 years ago" and theres like 2 feet of snow and my buddies snowmobiles just in frame :(
I always see snowmobiles ripping down the trail in my field and i just recently got an old sled and its December 2nd and we have gotten barely an inch of snow
Drift trike: All year. Unless its snowing. Heck. Maybe even in the snow.
Snow mobile: Snow only.
A custom drift trike made up with that engine would be a cool thing to see.
Haha that ending when the garage door opens. Gave me a good chuckle.
Definitely shows creativity!
Ahahahaha, same here!
Soon as he said a few weeks I knew they storm had gone past ha ha
clearly no one has seen grass drags before...
I laughed myself stupid when that happened. Nice joke👍
You're the son-in-law I wished I'd had but never did! Seeing that old King Edward cigar box- I had one when I was around 10, kept "treasures" in it for 20 years or so. don't know what or where it ended up, but nice nostalgia seeing it.
It looks like the first ignition coil measured 17 megaohms, which is pretty much open circuit.
The second coil measured 6 kiloohms which is about right.
When diagnosing stuff, make sure you take notice of the units on the right of the display.
Oh my. Brings back ton of memories. Buddy had the same sled. Many years later he bought a new artic cat Wild cat or thunder cat. It was like a 900 cc. Anyway he calls me up and we trailer both his new one and that one to Allegan Forest is S.W. Michigan. I bet we went 150 miles that day. But that old sled kicked my ass. Those leaf spring skies up front and virtually no suspension under it.
My whole body ached for days after. But it was a lot of fun and that old sled never missed a lick that long day.
I don’t love the smell of varnished up fuel... I could almost smell that thru the screen. What I do love is the smell of 2 Stroke. I love it so much I got a Klotz racing oil scented candle at the snowmobile show a few years ago. Makes my garage smell of one of the best smelling 2 stroke oils on the planet. 😎
I’m not even sure if you’re joking or not with the candle, but that’s a great idea.
@@thor942
Not kidding. I didn’t pay this much, but it’s very real 😎
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He’s not joking I have a diesel scented candle my buddy gave me as a joke it smells like raw fuel before then burnt fuel wheel kit haha
:sigh: going back to Amazon to check for a two stroke scented candle.
Klotz sucks. Shit will gum up lines and all. I used to live by klotz now I wouldn't waste my time pouring it in the trash. It did smell good but it don't burn worth a f**k
You’re the “King” of tinkering! Never doubted you for a minute.
"Up here in the north" sounds funny when I'm watching from Canada.
I was wondering how all the under guts were.
That 340 is worth more than 5 gallons of diesel.
I've been playing with vintage sleds for .....well.....since they weren't vintage.
There's a lot more to them than if they run.
Yeah, I'm "up North" I always figured. Being on top of NY state, but you guys got us beat! (got friends in Kemptville, Brockville, Kingston and Napanee, Ontario!)
Those Kawasaki engines (340 and 440) back then had points under the flywheel. Make sure you clean them up and set the gap. I had a 440 shoved into a Lynx and it would launch with the skis in the air for a few hundred feet. Those old sleds are light and fun to ride…and roll super easy;)
I have a spirit 500 in my lynx
Extra points to Diesel Creek for getting a snowmobile that matches his undies :D
Junkyard Digs did the exact same machine a year ago. Loved the door opening and the snow was gone.
Love it, Cheetah, Panther, Leopard. I remember when these came out, they were the bomb. Polaris, TNT 440, Elan 250. There was even a cool tow behind sled that Ski Doo made. Lots of snow in 70's.
The skiboose!
Don't forget the little Kitty Cat!
My mom had a 440 eltigra Artic cat, my dad had a 440 Stearns, and I had a 440 nitro full....sure miss those times
When you unscrew the plugs on a machine that has been sitting, pour down a bit of two stroke oil in the cylinder prior to turning the engine.
Haha gotta scrape that carbon off some how
Junkyard digs just did a revival of the same sled, but his had the rotary in it. His leapord print was nicer condition though 😂. He had to replace the drive sprockets/dogs or whatever you call them lol. He found new ones, so you might reach out to him for info 🤷♂️
The ending was funny that’s how some of my projects go. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
2 stroke snowmobile exhaust never gets old...
Brings back memories from my youth. Riding sleds from bar to bar, getting buried in snow drifts trying to jump. Tinkering with it all summer trying to get it to go faster. Never did
She so close she just wants to run Heck yeah Nice and loud Sounds good Matt even on 1 cylinder 21:00 @Diesel Creek
Build a go cart or a trike. For the summer time. Either way I'll be here watching whatever you put out.
Bill’s Marine Service at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. I love here and used to work there. They sold Arctic Cat for decades. Worth a shot!
I can just hear Derek from vgg sayjng... there's a 51.2%percent chance it will run... probably not!
Hahaha he's very much being nuts but fun to watch his estimations in %
I rode snowmobiles back in that time period. Drive them on the weekends and do maintenance repairs all week. Then repeat!
When you pull a line off like that give it a " yah!"
Like Derek at vice grip garage
LMAO
I had a 1975 Cheetah with steel cleats. Rode it out to the Kantishna mining district from Nenana, Alaska. Put a lot of miles on her. Camped at -20 and woke up covered in sand. No snow could be seen for miles.
I hope you fix the sled up and wait till the next snow. To me she’s a keeper. If I lived closer I would be seriously bugging you to sell it as is!
Well, make him an offer ! This is a useless money pit, man !
In 1973 a local boat/outdoor equipment dealer named Anchor Marine (Baton Rouge La) sold an off road bike called a Tri-Sport. I had one. Engine choices were an 8hp Briggs or the 340 snowmobile engine like yours. It had 3 wheels, 2 large wide spaced tires in the rear with a disc brake and a long springer fork in the front with a motorcycle type handlebar. Mine had the 2 stroke 340 engine, with the variable pitch belt drive connected to a lawnmower type axle with a u-joint on each end, coil over shocks, making it an independent rear end. Driving it was a trip. It's hard to describe the feeling. At the time I was about 175 lbs and it would fry the tires with me on it. Top speed??? I chickened out at 80 mph. Had a friend follow me on a quiet road to clock my speed. There was no speedometer. Fun bike, but be careful if you build one.
I love how you can take apart anything and then make it run. Good luck with this project.
yea, derek learns us all alot about a lot of things, guys a born teacher. where is my diesel creek hat, you could sell a shit load of them, they would be manly. meatball is my hero.
The ending was great. Id love to see a repower. Man screaming 8 thousand, 9 thousand rpms. I love 2 strokes.
6500 rpm for that motor max
My vote is for re-powering something, but not something normal. Make a 2-cycle winch, or a snowmobile-engine-powered chainsaw or sawmill or something! Making the chainsaw would require some sort of air or spring assist to manage the weight.
That could be fun!
I was waiting for him to say in the intro "well look what the cat dragged in"
Yup been there done with with a 73 JD 440 but she's cherry now fully restored get some cool looks and thumbs up and drive-by hand slaps on the trail with the new sleds going by....😀😀😀😀👍
funny at 14:44 when you moved the camera close to the fuel tank my nose automatically closed i guess i didn't want to smell that old fuel lol
I worked for Motorola for 13 years and the last 7 years I had a company owned snow mobile. I worked in Central PA around Harrisburg.
At one point in my life I worked on Arctic Cats, and swapping those drive sprockets is a major pain in the butt. The under carriage, track, and drive shaft gave to come out which includes the chain case and chain, lower chain sprocket and both lower bearings. We would call in sick if we had one to fix.😊😊
I have completely rebuilt tracks and clutches for 30 years....fun and patients go well...
Wow! a Cheetah, my dad bought a new cheetah in 71-72. along with a kitty kat,
when i was little, we lived in Alaska and someone stole them both about 1974, the police never did anything, we never got them back. who knows, perhaps you ended up with our old sled 😂 cool find.
that fuel looks like a nicely aged Brandy lol
Wouldn't waste my time on anything till I heard it run!
Id say no to the drift trike because you're not a 15 yr old hipster, my vote is an offroad go-kart
I would have to agree, +1 on the offroad go-kart.....and his yard/property doesn’t exactly strike me as prime real-estate for a drift trike rip either?!
Plus the go cart can be fun in light snow.
Diesel Creek please don’t inform me I missed part of your show because your camera operator was sleeping on the job again because I would have never known that I missed it, somehow you magically make it appear.
Was just thinking that'd make an awesome donor engine for another build! Seems to run darn good, and *still* a good deal for the price, even if it's in a scrap sled right now!
Lol He don't want to Let that Go at all to funny Matt 😂 0:50 @Diesel Creek
Well Matt, now that you have an old snowmobile you will have something to do all winter long. My experience with old sleds is about a 1/1 split on riding and fixing.
Good luck 🤞
Good old Minwax Fuel You got there Matt Love the smell of Minwax 15:00 @Diesel Creek
I remember those old Cat's, the engines would flood out constantly, that's why they carried so many spark plugs, you'd be changing them all day. You never went very far since they were always breaking down.
Properly tuned they ran fine. My Dad bought an old Puma and Panther that was 70-72 when I was young. My brother and I would ride them everyday. I remember the Panther was sometimes hard to start but once started it ran well. Never left us stranded.
@@alcopower5710 That's right! My dad brought home this same model and year Panther in late 71 with a Lynx and Sno Jet to go with it. Never had a problem with any of them. Don't know what "he's" driving but we never had a problem with ours. (we kept them tuned up also) Most I had to do to the Panther was replace the clutch after about 4 or 5 years because we rode it so much! Put a Duster on and she rode like crazy then!
@@alcopower5710 BTW- You must be a train buff? (Alco Power!)
@@tmotorman ......yeah loved trains my whole life. Have a little RUclips channel mostly about rail fanning.
The first time your vacuum got a big piece in the glovebox I immediately thought "he got the mouse"
Ahhhhhhh...I was just gonna ask about Christine after seeing her pretty yellow motor still on the stand. Teaser there at the end :-)
Matt definitely some sort of go cart.Snowmobiles are a pain in the butt always fixing especially the old ones at one point my buddies and I had 7 when it would snow would be lucky if one of them was running gave them all away.
Awesome vlog ending had me in stitches spat my beer everywhere 😂🤣
On the exhaust you should weld a piece of strap across the u tube to give it strength mine cracked just like that and it’s whole weight is hanging of the muffler and vibration cracks it
Reach out to Golden Rust Or Bust. He’ll know where to get the parts I think
Him an kevin at junkyard digs just did excat same cat thou a yr older . He should know where to get the rear cogs as they just did them on it .
I love not knowing whether there will be success or not. He'll put it up either way.
Matt's pretty good with the carb reconditioning, seems to enjoy that
I almost feel weird admitting this, but this is basically my current sled. I've got a 1972 292 Panther. Been in my family since new, has been rebuilt several times and runs great. Fun to ride here in thin snow country. Cool video.
I rode one of those new in my younger days when I was doing a lot of riding, nice machine
It's a shame you couldn't rock that sweet Cheetah seat at the snow park; You'da been STYLIN !
Needle screw starting points: Low end 1 turn out, Hi end 2 1/2 turns out. The back (left) cylinder can burn up easily if the fan belt breaks or the carb is too lean.
Yes the back one is far from the fan, gets less air and if there is any obstruction, it will be worse...like the legendary cyl #3 at aircooled VW boxers, according to Mustie1...
:-D
we got a "Tired Iron" race every year. Seen some dinosaurs there. We used these for Ice fishing. Dad had an Alpine. I always was on the back of a "Fold-A-Sled"
Ahahahaaha that ending when the garage door opens and your face reaction gave me a good laugh!
Great video as well, Thanks Matt!
Derek did one this old too. Got his running for his boys to use
Love it thanks showing that old rusty things can come back to life.
That's a panther, I had one just like it about 25 years ago I miss it terribly.
I would love to see you putting that motor into something like a racing go-cart. Thanks for your cool videos.
Use 309 for welding that. It is very ductile, so it won't crack. It also cleans the base material. For hobby use only of course.....
"She's a bit of a fixer-upper" ummm yea, you don't buy anything that isn't lol fun to watch "will it run" videos
We just put our Arctic Cat Cheetah up for sale for $250. It is in really nice condition, but it has never ran since we bought it and I see the fuel cap gas cage rod is completely corroded.
I remember tgose, fun as heck too. also. MEATBALL!
Summer here and I like it that way. We have not seen snow in over 4 years and it only lasted 15 min. Jim in Chile
Check out off-grid with the skinners. He has an EXTENSIVE collection of parts.
I'm from Germany and I like your videos very much. You do cool stuff!
That thing sounds like an old east-german car, like the "Trabant". It also has a 2 stroke engine, 600ccm and brutally 26HP. Less power gets replaced by insanity ;-)
That my friend is a panther cause the tanks in the back
Jijii
I could watch these videos all day, thanks for the awesome content!
I watched a batch of 7 in a row last week; am I an addict now? lol.
In the realm of fixer upper and handyman I think this is almost Red Green Show level
Well that was a fun little job even if you didn't have a chance to get out and rip on it. BTW: I'm pretty sure that the Cheetah print seat adds about 4.7362 HP to that machine!
My 1973 el Tigre 440 still runs. It’s a family heirloom that will live in infamy.
About time you get a snowmobile👍👍Great Video
Matt, I see Junkyard Digs has done the same model Snowmobile a week or so before you. I watched yours first... I always have a A Hankering for restoration, to CONTINUE HISTORY with examples of it.!.!.?
Yank the motor out and put it in the junkyard golf cart. That would be pretty cool.
This would be awesome. The perfect project
You have a 1972 Arctic Cat Panther 340. 26 Hp Kawasaki twin cylinder 2 cycle , withe a Walbro WDA carburetor. The spindle is not fixable! Lots of parts available everywhere!
Reach out to junkyard digs he just finished one he'll be able to help with the sprockets
Awe, ya gave that away... Just about to go TO DIGS and watch their episode. I wonder where J. Mook has been, I miss her smile and can-do spirits...!
JYD's buddy that runs golden rust or bust would know where to get anything you'd need for that.
Swap out the drive system with one from a 74. Me and was buddy of mine did it in one night. Had the sled up and running by 11pm. We started with a 67 panther. And put the 74 track and drop case in with the drive shaft. Only thing we had to move was the back suspension mount.
She sounds great and I can’t wait to see what you have in store next.Excellent work and thanks for the awesome content stay safe and take care
Old Arctic cats, start getting finicky at -10 C ! And the warmer gets the more you will "heat seize "the Pistons , to the piston sleeves!
🤣🤣 the ending was golden!!! Great job, love the vids
My buddy took the motor off his and now his goffcart goes about 90 m.p.h works good too !!!
The bull dog reminds me of when I was a kid many many years ago. On my paper route this bull dog would run out and bite onto the front tire of my bike, and wouldn't let go. The kid that owned him ran out and grab him by the hind legs, and started pulling him as hard as he could. After about five minutes he was able to pull the dog free. After that when I would go past that house, I would speed up and go by on the other side of the street.
Love the reverse welding , all the burn hole just fix them self
Another great one, thank you for my the daily dose of happiness!
Congrats, I had a similar year arctic cat that had the drive cogs blow up on me while trying to drive it out of the garage. Now, any vintage sled I buy. I check the cogs.
It's always a fun time watching your videos. You are really good at what you do and that even makes it more fun to watch. You had me going for a moment at the end, I really thought you were going to ride off into a beautiful snowy ride. Would love to see you repurpose that engine into something cool you could ride around on go-cart style...
Anyone else smile when she started up?
I can't look at that seat without thinking of leopard print undies!
Yours or hers? 🤣🤣🤣
@@bluegrallis We have matching thongs. ;)
I’m with you brother, there’s just something about leopard print.
And that's a bad thing!!!
That scene from road trip. “What’ed you do, skin a cheetah?!?”
I would totally put that in a go cart. I have an old go cart that would be perfect in
Back in the day, that was maybe the best snowmobile made.
Huuuum, not really ! Bombardier's Ski Doo was and still is the benchmark. Yamaha was/is still a close contender.
@@marcryvon We didn't have that many Ski Doos or Yamahas in my area, as i remember. Maybe dealerships had something to do with that.
Brings back memories. I had a 72 Panther with the Wankel engine. What a great machine!
dammit I knew it was coming but I still had a good laugh about it.
I have a 1971 Arctic Cat Panther with a 303 Wankel engine I hope to get it running again this year I had it running a couple years ago and then I got sick but they are good machines.
I would like to see that engine switched with the golf cart
My thoughts exactly.