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you might be able to sell them on TY, those guys will buy anything

I'm sure jimwit will jump in and correct me, but despite him saying they will all be built in oct and nov... of the sleds we have on order, the earliest production date (subject to change) is an M on 10-30. all of our 129's are showing second week of December. trucking can add a few days to a couple of weeks (no rhyme or reason to how long it takes) They told the folks at haydays that about 80 sleds a day get built now (assuming parts are available)

A friend of mine's father had one. I remember the "gold" plaque on the dash. Eventually he was allowed to take it, and rode with a group of us on 700's in the early 00's. no problem keeping up in the woods, or jumping roads, but not much luck in the fields lol. That poor thing got shit whipped and put away wet, never complained. I don't remember what happened to it, he got an F7

first year twinspar had teething issues too, updates off the top of my head include remap, exhaust melting/staining the bellypan, ccu, and poor performance from the 1000 didn't the prowler have all kinds of issues with ball joints too?? or was that a different sled

first year procross was easier to live through than the first year F7. Neither had any real major problems that cost lots of folks riding time.. Only the 4 stroke reverse problems had customers bringing in unrideable sleds. Even those I could eliminate reverse with a washer and bolt, locking the sled in FWD and get the sled back on the trail. 03 recoil rope breaking was a far bigger pita to deal with than anything in 12

have an RXC on order, but if someone wants it bad enough they can buy it, and I'll ride whatever is sitting around. Hopefully it'll be an 858 sooner than later

Every sled through the shop for service gets the case opened up for inspection Pull the hood, muffler, toe kick, top belly pan screws. loosen chain case screws, let drain slowly while working on the clutches. 1/4" impact with an extension or 2 to pull the screws. The auto tensioners are on rev 4 or 5. The newest ones are pretty good. The tensionser gets checked, every automatic one that is not the latest version gets replaced. 998 sleds get the roller retaining screws welded if they are still tight, assy gets replaced if they are loose or have fallen out (screws welded on new ones before install). Even though I don't ride like old people fuck (unlike jimwit) I've never had one fail on my personal sled. Of course I only have time to put around 1,000 miles on a sled in an average season, last couple have been sub 500 miles. At least the new owner gets a deal on a clean low mile 1 year old sled .

X1000 Not sure what you guys get out in that part of the country, but the rail road beds here turn into washboard, then into a "rhythm section" without any rhythm. The washboard is stuff that at 60 mph shakes your head and helmet to the point your vision gets blurry. When it gets bigger, you have to either keep the hammer down, and live with it for 15 min, or slow way down and suffer through it for what feels like an eternity.

They stopped doing anything with catmaster, the annual tests, and more or less stopped doing tech updates. They haven't even sent out a pdf of changes in a year or 2. Textron has started doing classes in TRF for "Platinum Technical Training Seminars" and online bs called "brainier"

It isn't an eccentric bearing, its a self aligning bearing in an eccentric housing. as for the magazine riders claiming to put 2k miles on a prototype, re-read AK440's post as many times as it takes for you to comprehend what he said. (It's going to take you at least 10 times) Remember telling everyone that AC was going to build a run of catalyst in February???

Holy fuck are you stupid, and wrong.. Neither the bearing mounted in an eccentric housing, or tcl have anything at all to do with shock load BTW the eccentric is used to set the CTC for the pulleys depending on which ones are used (it isn't designed to allow for tension changes, it has set positions for different gear ratios) TCL keeps clutch ctc consistent, but does allow drive belt pulleys to change CTC, and parallelism (albeit only slightly) Shock loading comes from the track and has nothing al all to do with the moronic drivel you are spewing.

Saying stupid shit like that, and all the other bullshit, and lies you spread on here is why you are known as a jimwit. factory, and sponsored racers aren't ever going to say anything negative about the sled, or products. Hell its common for racers to not use a sponsors product, and use the sponsors competitors product.

18/19 ctec are/were very reliable, only issue is the flames out the exhaust that happen when ridden the right way. If you never stop, you don't have to worry about them. 20 was pretty good too '21 was a disaster, mapping, injectors, clutching all off. We had at least one long block on the shelf at all times , and had to take good parts from blown up low mileage motors, to get guys back on the snow (blast too) '22/23 reliable again, but still no oem fix for the bad low speed mapping. You really are stupid, and ignorant of what is going on aren't you???!!! textron does not stock parts like arctic cat did. I've even posted screen shots from long term textron employees saying they wouldn't buy a machine because of how bad parts, and warranty are. Yet here you are lost and lying out your ass. exactly, textron doesn't stock enough parts to do anything, its not that uncommon for parts to be on backorder for 6+months, it happened with 800 engine parts in 21. 600 long blocks, 600 and 800 pistons are currently on back order Hell if you need exhaust stud(s) for a 2024 998, a clutch for any year wildcat trail/sport, transaxle parts for an 18-2023 wildcat XX, you are sol as AC has discontinued them.

AC won with the barney sled

you mean the fusion could have gone worse than it did??!!

IMHO it was done for packaging. It needed to fit between the riders legs, the crankshaft has to be on the center line of the machine, and the pipe (expansion chamber) is cast and water jacketed, so pretty large. The first couple years had issues ingesting water and grenading, instead of re-designing the pipe to y pipe joint to prevent leaking, and the airbox, they added a rubber piece zip tied around the joint to catch the leaks, and rubber flaps to divert them away from the airbox..

yup, the name etec exists because ficht had/has such a terrible reputation. BRP hired one of the guys who is responsible for running AC into the ground, and put them in charge of Evinrude. Tracy Crocker

weird thing is that seadoo had lay down engines in the 90's (787 and 951) The 787 was available sdi (injector in the boost port like AC and Poo) 951 was available with carbs and, orbital di (opti-max) I don't remember if they had sdi as an option or not both poo and ac had versions of omc's direct injection in their watercraft as well. that ended when brp bough out omc, after forcing them into bankruptcy

that's a new one.. something you always wanted to do, or have you gotten to dirty old man age? how about college, or pro women's beach volleyball?

Don't remember mentioning it, feel like he's bragged to everyone about it. Will not mention it though either way

you are the creepy weirdo stalker that went out of your way to track down where I work

1. Yes you have. 2. Post a quote or link of me saying where you work.

Coming from a creep who stalked me to find out where I work I have never posted a single thing about you, or any other member, that they didn't post first themselves. Are you too stupid to remember telling everyone on here your name, where you live, where you work, that you steal stone from work, etc.

If you want to post personal information, I can post personal information. I'm sure the board, and taxpayers would love to know how you spend your time on the clock, proudly representing them. for someone who claims to do amazing paperwork, how is it you couldn't pass a 4th grade English class, using a machine with spell check???. How in the name of christ are you so stupid than you don't know what "rumor" means??? Is it going to take you longer to figure out than "all" BTW you left off the fact that despite all your claims about what I do for a living, and all the shit you talk, I make more than you.

@ZR6000RR said that never happened. of course he also said he is an engineer at arctic cat "all" didn't apply to his machine arctic cats relationship with yamaha was very strong and they weren't going anywhere the new engine was an 870, because he's buddies with a test rider and on, and on, ad infinitum