Doug

Check out this guy Dr Mario. He's primarily Polaris and actually makes cleated tracks for 60's and 70's Polaris sleds. I don't know if Polaris ever had a center drive but this guy may be able to help out. https://www.ebay.com/str/drmariosvintagepolaris https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Mario-Vintage-Polaris-Parts-381398125388699/ http://vintagepolarispart.com/?fbclid=IwAR2tu9auWiu6paZORT8PXpeLKp7f6vDUMrGVngfe21aM2JSQ9LwV2CRn1YQ

I still have it active but was looking into disabling it.

The silver looks good with sleds in the pic. Those are my winter tires and rims from a 2015 GMC

Yes

We have one couple that are true Arctic Cat rides. When he went to buy a new sled from his normal dealer that is a multi-brand dealer it was his dealer that steered him away from Arctic Cat. He kept his turbo and has a new Ski-Doo for this year. I hope Arctic Cat stays around. Wouldn't be good for the sport to only have 2 manufacturers.

My 2020 GMC 1500 pulls everything I want it to pull with a 5.3 but I have the HD trailer package with 3:42 gears. I haven't pulled our 4 place trailer with it as we haven't used it for a couple seasons yet. A 6.2 would pull better obviously. Friend of mine owns a body shop and when they work on a Ford aluminum box it a little different animal to work on to keep contamination away from the aluminum prepping and painting them. If it's not done right the paint will fall off. Guess the key here is don't damage the box. I'm sure both the Ford and GM trucks will work fine. Take dealer support also into consideration.

Now your making Joe jealous again.

If Cat has them. Worked on a real nice 95 Thundercat that needed fuel pumps. No rebuild kits available or fuel pumps. Any manufacture now most dealers don't want to work on older sleds and no parts available from the manufacturers.

Yup. When its -25F but nice and sunny much prefer the groomer those days

Kiekhaefer powered SKI-Doo?? In 1970 Carl Kiekhaefer broke away from Kiekhaefer Mercury and restarted Kiekhaefer Aeromarine Motors his original company. After failed attempts at building a successful snowmobile Carl turned his attention as being an engine supplier. He set his test bed on racing and built a 649CC F/A 3 cylinder mounted in 1971 Polaris TX chassis which won both oval and obstacle course events in the open non production class with engine sizes larger then 800CC. He later turned the lead design over to his son Fred to build a liquid cooled motor. Fred designed an inverted V-twin liquid cooled. They made the rounds of all the major manufactures with Ski-Doo showing the most interest because at that time they did not have a liquid cooled motor. In May of 1973 the papers were being drawn up with a closing date of July 1 1973. The problem was 1973 was a terrible snow year and after the year was over all the manufactures had extensive carryover inventory and Rotax had also come out with their own liquid cooled engine. It was agreed upon by both parties to back away from the deal. Fred Kiekhaefer still has 2 V-twin motors, one under a coffee table the other still mounted in its Chaparral test chassis.

One of the radar runs our club had in 1990.

What was the question who's the last one to blow up a motor in this thread. That would be Z

I heard they offered it to Joe but he failed the Snowmobile safety course.

No need to answer the question. I'll leave that to the last guy to launch a motor in this conversation. Wow sledless and no pit jacket. Next you'll be voted out of the MADCATTER'S for not having a pit jacket.

Hold on a minute he does have the pit jacket yet. No sled required then.

Joe's Bitch

I see your posting spam (HCS). That should be grounds for being ban. Maybe the admin can put a filter on so it defaults to FreedomSledder.

Bets are you still get hurt.

For you you should buy a sled you don't get hurt on.

Been grooming for over 25 years when we have snow around home. Our club use to have a LMC groomer but found it makes more sense for us to use a tractor because we cannot rely on the amount of snow we get. We have 2 Cat Challengers that we actually rent our during the off season for lite field work.

Wisconsin has a 55 MPH speed limit at night. This was a temporary law about 5-6 years ago when Wisconsin had a record number of deaths and became law the following year. We've been stopped once and received just a warning.

It's not the speed it's the sudden stop.

Just don't say Freedom Sledder that will get you ban. Oh wait that's the other site.

Some of the triples made by the aftermarket speed shops you could buy in the 90's. I have a SLP RZ 700 trail version in a 1985 Indy 600 SE chassis. Had a Arrow motor in a 1987 Indy 600 chassis lined up to buy but when I went to pick it up the guy backed out. This was a race motor made in Shawano Wisconsin and Mike Weindant and Dean Schroeder were involved in with this motor.

Currently own 6 1975 Rupp Ntiro 2 440 FA, 1985 Indy 600 with a SLP 700 RZ motor, 1990-1/2 RXL, 1994 XCR 600, 2020 XC 137 2021 RV1 137