Not many.
-Stabilizer bar tabs off the frame. It was either tear down and weld or replace. Factory said to replace service frame.
-One of those fancy new clutches decided to blow up the fixed sheave. Not bad, clutch, ring gear, TCL, and starter assembly. Didn't even take out the belly pan.
-Fairly new 800 motor decided to start blowing coolant. Haven't pulled the head yet. Maybe get lucky and it's just gaskets. Yeah right.
-New long block at 4,300 dings on the mile counter.
We have five sleds. If you do the math, that leaves one energizer bunny that keeps running. The bunny sled is a basic '22 800. Each trip, that sled gets unloaded and parked off to the side because it's "only a backup". Seems like every trip the crusty bugger gets the snow dusted off and keeps getting miles. Dang thing passed 1 and four zeros this week. Every bit has been old lady miles. Four primaries and I think seven sets of weights. I bet it's thrown apart 20+ of those crappy idler wheels. We would have been big dollars ahead by simply switching to the Soucy wheels and good bearings from the beginning.
Funny thing about that sled. Last time I looked, it had 10,220 miles and 255.7 hours. It has to be getting tired. I wish Cat would buy the thing back and do a deep analysis of all the components. Anything that has held together should be a mandatory component on every single machine made in the future.
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