I think I know the answer but is it a bad idea to store sleds over the summer in an enclosed trailer? The work shop is filling up with…well…work stuff.🤣

I have been doing it for years. No signs of trouble. My trailer is a clamshell. Tight enough to keep the critters out. I added some extra venting, soffit vents used on houses, two on each side at the bottom, one on each side at the top. There was already one vent at the top on each side. 

I think the extra vents help keep the temps down a bit inside the trailer, cooler air can come in the bottom, and out the top.

I also do the trailer. I have a fan on 24/7

Same here.  Trailer is in the shade as well.  I'd rather have them in my garage but only have a 5 stall so that isn't going to happen.

20 minutes ago, polaris7541 said:

I also do the trailer. I have a fan on 24/7

What type of fan? 

4 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

I think I know the answer but is it a bad idea to store sleds over the summer in an enclosed trailer? The work shop is filling up with…well…work stuff.🤣

Summer? Your sled doesn't leave the trailer in winter. 

Edited March 18, 20223 yr by snoughnut

3 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

What type of fan? 

small electric Hampton bay helps with air circulation and moisture, noise keeps critters out

As stated, air flow is key.

Avoid parking the trailer on grass if at all possible.

I built a rack so I can store one sled on top of the other.  Works good.  Then the AC keeps the space cool and DRY.  

btw I jack up the axle and put jack stands to keep tires from getting flat spots

2 hours ago, polaris7541 said:

btw I jack up the axle and put jack stands to keep tires from getting flat spots

you still running bias ply tires?

yep 8 ply  range e

Edited March 19, 20223 yr by polaris7541

Keep sled in my white clam shell all summer, park it in my side lot. Wipe the sled down with WD-40, treated the fuel, fog the motor and park it..Maybe once a month I'll open it up when I'm screwing around in the yard and let some air in there..Being white it's never very hot, my buddies black clam shell is fucking hot inside

 

Edited March 20, 20223 yr by Rigid1

Always.  I put a 12v computer fan on the vent and one of those menerds battery tender solar chargers screwed to side . Runs it when sun shines . Have one on all my trailers . For the 15 bucks and 20 min set and forget why not .  

Deff not needed but also can't hurt to be exchanging air in a 100deg trailer or when wet tools  or muddy sxs are stuffed in and forgot about for weeks on end 

I keep a couple in a trailer but the trailer is inside a building.

I think you want alot of venting so you don't get moisture in there.

12 hours ago, Rigid1 said:

Keep sled in my white clam shell all summer, park it in my side lot. Wipe the sled down with WD-40, treated the fuel, fog the motor and park it..Maybe once a month I'll open it up when I'm screwing around in the yard and let some air in there..Being white it's never very hot, my buddies black clam shell is fucking hot inside

 

My trailer is black...😜

9 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

My trailer is black...😜

The black is nice in the winter for defrosting the sleds!

3 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

The black is nice in the winter for defrosting the sleds!

Good point and doubles as a sauna in the summer...win/win!😜👌🏻

I did it for years. With my old clamshell and current inline. No issues. Now I have a barn that they can all sit inside, out of the weather. 

13 hours ago, Rigid1 said:

The black is nice in the winter for defrosting the sleds!

And looks sweet after going down the road for the first 35 feet .

 Can't even believe I bought another black truck.  

 

read on the internets come fall the sled will be a pile of rusty metal if stored that way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just hope insurance pays for it cause thats where mine will be,  didn't work last summer but maybe this summer

On 3/21/2022 at 7:36 PM, Ez ryder said:

And looks sweet after going down the road for the first 35 feet .

 Can't even believe I bought another black truck.  

Ha.  Exactly why I bought a dust gray trailer.

They guys that store the sleds in the yard, under a tree, with no cover seem to have the least amount of trouble  

3 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

They guys that store the sleds in the yard, under a tree, with no cover seem to have the least amount of trouble and have all been selling for top dollar on Facebook marketplace

fixed

6 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

fixed

I thought they did that to their wives sleds.  Babied, hardly ridden.

Store mine in snocap trailer. Vent oil cap - have heard of excess heat expanding oil and pushing into engine.