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1 hour ago, Not greg b said:

I have a 15 year old Walmart huffy. It doesn’t spin shafts in the bearings 

You don’t have the kind of power in your legs that the newly redesigned 600 ctec does and you sure as hell don’t have factory vforce reeds!

9 hours ago, Not greg b said:

They should switch to bicycle chain/sprokets in stead of a belt 

Textron sold off huffy a few years back or they’d make it happen

On 4/29/2024 at 7:12 AM, Crnr2Crnr said:

put the brake back on the jackshaft where it belongs 

Can’t do that with these hoopty ass belts ready to blow at any minute

On 4/28/2024 at 1:07 PM, racinfarmer said:

I have found a way to finance riding next season.

Bet I have a gallon ice cream pail full of these, if not 2 of them.

I saw that, the exact one is $9 brand new on Amazon.

8 hours ago, jonlafon1 said:

Been through this and had a failure at 7K  the fucking ball bearing came right out of the bearing. Felt a major pulse on the break . Pulled over and bearing under brake. Shut it down and towed. Seen a 8000 with 120 miles on it completely worn shaft toast. The fit was so bad it would never make 1000 miles.  ALSO seen some with 5-10K with no issues. The ones with no issue rust to the shaft usually. What happens is the bearing is neglected and then it sits and water and dirt get past the cheap ass seal. Then when the sleds put back into action the bearing spins on the shaft because its got rust and crude inside. IF you service this bearing EVRY year your fine. maybe.  Works best to just split the brake, especially if you have one that's rusted on or has a tighter fit.  Pop seal clean out and re grease with a LOW TEMP grease. Seen this go both ways and the best is if you can catch them early or start with a fix when new. Once they start slipping it just goes to shit pretty quick. They eventually will fail that bearing. Rust is your friend on this fit. Service the bearing yearly your fine. Most/ average guys are not going to split the brake or remove and service this bearing. 

I see it on a lot of really clean sleds and roached sleds. I think a lot of lower mileage sleds you see it on get water pushed in there when pressure washing. I also think that’s a common thing with stuck roller bearings in the clutch.

7 hours ago, Premium said:

It isn't 1 in 1000 though. I've gone through several shafts on multiple sleds...it's just not something that should be happening.  Bearings are wear items shafts are not.

Change the bearing before it locks up and spins on the shaft then

5 hours ago, mnstang said:

In reality I probably won't even do the loctite haha.  This is one of those issues that a few people on the internet like to freak out over but in the real world it's not a big deal.  99% of people don't do anything for this "issue" and never have a problem.

5 hours ago, Deephaven said:

3 times the green goggles...you've got it bad

While I’ll normally get in stupid arguments with mnstang on green goggler issues I’m with him on this. The Yamaha guys really started this issue because a 1 in 1000 issue drives those dorks into a frenzy. Have I seen a bunch of them that are absolutely smoked? Yes. Have I seen a bunch of sleds with well over 5k miles and the original shaft is completely fine? Yes.

7 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

How do you get chatter from a brake rotor at idle? 

As in loose tolerancing?

I get chatter (pulsing) on the scallops rotors out trail riding, but that is all I've really noticed.  

From what I’ve seen on pretty much all cats is initial run after setup the rotor will rattle a little bit. Grab the brake a couple times and it seats on the shaft where it wants to be and its fine from then on

3 hours ago, krom said:

You didn't get that thing through the racer program, just warranty the entire bulkhead assy

Mine isn’t broken yet 2 that came from the race department are

8 hours ago, mnstang said:

I took the starter out of my catalyst and remember it was more time consuming than the procross.  I think I removed the throttle bodies but left the air box in place.

I think maybe if I take the TB’s off I’ll be able to get the airbox far enough back to get it out but I lost interest in it for now 😂

Maybe they could buy Cat and revamp and rebrand the dirt line Cat/Argo/Bass Pro and consolidate their manufacturing so they could give line employees 40 hour work weeks.

18 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

To hell with the GGB stuff, he needs himself a Sno-Stuff Stumble Pack

Does Argo assemble their own ATV's and whatnot?  You'd think if they don't Cat could be a good acquisition for them to move that in house.

I’m not sure isn’t argos facility in thief the old BM building and fairly small? Cat would be a good acquisition for Argo because more people at Argo know the workings of the catalyst than people at textron/cat do.

12 hours ago, Not greg b said:

No but I am going to be ripping my hood apart soon to put the windshield trim on it 

#AirboxMod

Any of you guys had the airbox out of one of these piles yet? Finally working on the sway bar braces but either I’m retarded or you have to take the whole sled apart to get the airbox out

Wait you can’t keep people working on 3500 sleds a year?!

8 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

he actually discusses towing during the Iron Dog 

That was a cat though 

1 hour ago, Not greg b said:

Not much to tell. They had a couple big bores built that were in the early prototype phase. 2018ish textron shut the whole project down and yer done and get rid of everything. The 858 probably shares nothing those prototypes. That would be where the rumors of it being in the 870-890 range would have came from even though those engines were long gone by the time they released the catalyst 

The original big bore ctec was tested as an 850 and 900 too IIRC

Wes clains that the catalyst was supposed to be released in 2020. We’ll have to ask @ZR6000RR if that’s true

37 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

that's what I was thinking as well...

the ZR 6000 indicates Procross to me

Possibly to not raise any flags and/or disappoint when they don’t build a catalyst sx

11 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

I stand corrected...[XXX] is the model number, not the units available for allocation. 

So I learned something new today...  

 

 

I was kind of thinking that might be the case but the TBD on the snocross sleds threw me off but may mean catalyst SX? Last years application didn’t have those numbers and was the first time I applied

3 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

That is the one.

Wes is pretty damn fun to be around, unless you are a goat.  Then it is concerning.

I could imagine he’s a riot in person

2 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

I saw on Marketplace it sold for 10,500.

He just relisted it for 10,250 o thought it was 10 even but yes it does say sold now.

Speaking of gunner there’s 3 hours of goat fucking up on his podcast now

15 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

What does the first used Catalyst sell for with some miles on it?

About $10k.

Gunner is down to 10 even on glens sled 

3 hours ago, AK440 said:

Just like Tucker winning on the old ass, not competitive Pro-Cross chassis. No one else won on it then or since. 

We care about the GD Soo now? 

Pretty sure cat kicked everyone’s ass in 17 and 18 on the procross 

1 hour ago, AK440 said:

Put up some money if you are so confident you are right. Tell you what, you prove me wrong I’ll leave the site forever. You’ll have succeeded in what Bontz couldn’t do when I posted the  photo of his fat face off his public Facebook page. You lose then you pay my subscription fee so I can post photos. 
 

Let’s see how confident you are in your tiresome, never ending accusations that I don’t own a sled. 

Just go delete old attachments lmao

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

I suggested he pull one of the race 600's off the shelf and shove it in there... 

I got a helluva 550 mill that’ll bolt in there