OUTFITTING THE SIMPLE, RELIABLE YET MIGHTY TUNDRA LT (SKIDOO)
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2019
- Pre-Retirement is now 4 days away to 8 months of holidays before retirement. Getting the Tundra ready for solo adventures. The boy is in his final year of High School before entering engineering school and my wife is still working. Why the Tundra is a good choice for retiremnent and what I am doing to get it ready for adventure.
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Hi, Yeah I feel the same way, these old lightweight sleds are the way to go. Was stuck once deep in the AK Brooks Range with broken down sled, not fun. IF these clowns of manufacturers in recent days would make lightweight sleds with modern technology on the one side but reliable stuff on the other, that would be great but they get worse and worse instead. So buying and restoring old sleds is the only way out. Regards from Alaska!
Can you do full video on how to unhook oil?
north61 i enjoy your videos on stuff i don't see in FLA and what you post on the 24 hour campfire . keep up the good stuff thanks mc44
Happy to do it!
Congrats on your pre-retirement. Keep the videos coming.Their excellent.I love the wilderness and mountains.
Just like the small 2.5 & 6hp outboards the small simple snowmachines make great sense .
Hunting off of a machine you'll see a lot more when traveling 5mph than you will 50mph .
Good analogy.
the muff pot is a nice touch. I spent my childhood on a bravo and recently acquired a tundra II i’m fixing up. great machines
A lot of people unhook the oil injection because they say it’s unreliable. I put a little bit of blue loctite on with some silicone on the bolt heads and I have never had any issues with mine.
Quite frankly I thought of it to be pretty reliable! I do take the recoil assembly off every couple years to check the injection screw and re lube it if needed. But other than that for it being a 1990 lt it has been a very reliable machine over the years!
Oh but I do have a jug of oil fastened inside for manual mixing in the rare event something does fail!
Great video!
Good to know.
I might take mine trapping next check! I'd like to try to follow and clear the trail I cut several years back, but in thigh deep snow I dread getting The Pig stuck! Getting the little Tundra stuck is almost fun...almost.
I know what you mean. If you take it out give us a video..love that Tundra! I went and bought a nifty hoist, 1 pound block and tackle that should get me out of anything and is very compact. I'll demo it when it gets here. Should handle a moose or small bison as well.
Great Video. Your Tundra is MINT.
Just picked up a 1991 Tundra. It sat for a few years so replacing I’m the fuel lines and cleaning the carb etc. The oil injection is hooked up but I want to terminate it like you suggest. I have a couple of questions if you could answer it would be much appreciated.
1. Was there any mods required to the carb in order to terminate the oil injection and run correctly
2. What brand 2-stroke oil do you use and what ratio?
No Mods on the carb.... 40 or 50-1 with Bombardier Synthetic Pre-Mix.
It cooks food too!? Wow!
Won't do the dishes though.
Truer words never spoken. KISS theory. The less complicated, less to go wrong, easier to fix. Good video Greg!
I have a big shit eating grin every time I start this old Tundra. I love it!
Great video, Great Box, Great machine!! I wish they would make something similar.... But I think the market for light, "low power" simple machine is a really small market and little money to be made. Most people want more, plays more, just like with guns, more power magnum stuff!!
Up North of 60 there is still a market but not many of us.
Great video sir! Just bought 2 of those tundras, my first machines. Absolutely love em! Great ideas for mine thank you!
Scandics and tundras used to rule the back country when I was a kid, great old sleds for doing actual work not just looking pretty on a trailer 😂
That lid would make a handy cutting board, bit big to staple a flexible cutting board to tho by the looks of it?
I’m getting hungry just thinking about pulling the garlic shrimp out of my muff pot for a mountain lunch 😁
That cutting board idea is worth thinking about.
great little sleds, just to under powered for some terrain, was going to buy one when I got my trapline but went with an Artic Cat 340 bearcat with reverse, glad I did , plenty of power/torque and 2 cylinders, can limp out on 1 if you drop a cylinder.
my favourite ever machine was a Puma 2 up in a 340.
Looks like that machine and that set up is ready to go, make sense using the lighter machine that you can maneuver around by hand 🖐
It's a pretty great old machine.
I have a 1989 tundra same color where did you get electric start
The Tundra E was made for a bit and came that way from the factory.
Great video Sir !!
I was thinking, The SnowDog could be an option for simple reliable light machine!!
I have given them a look. They do look like they will fill a niche. Only machine slower than an Elan but they look like fun.
Just like Toyota trucks, they had to make them bigger!
Nothing much is getting simpler! Maybe the Snow dog, though it isn't really a snowmobile.
I love simplicity less shit to fix great machine it's funny if they work too good they just stop production sad happy new year sir
you are a bad influence..I love those old sleds..I just found one in my area on cl..its a 1998 really clean with new track..what's it worth? thanks
1800-2200 Canadian in really good shape. Down from there if any problems. Condition is everything on an old sled. Check all the suspension wheels, compression, clutch movement and take her out for 30 minutes if you can. Let it get cold and restart it. Look at the belt; is it wearing evenly? Body and hood? See if there are any leaking gear oil in the gear box. Play in steering? Has it been well maintained? See if the fan belt is in good condition..that's a clue re maintenance. If it all checks out I'd gladly spend the money. I bought mine from a stickler.
What oil ratio do you use?
40:1
I've never seen a combo crescent wrench/vice grip before.
Canadian Tire....it really grips a nut with no slippage at all.
what year is it?
1989
@@north61 did it come with electric start?
@@GusgusA1 Yes it did...factory equipped it's a Tundra E. I think they only made for a year or two.
@@north61 i see thank you. I'm looking at a 1990 LT ill look for an E then. thanks again.