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Old Nov 6, 2007 | 11:46 PM
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snowmobile question

Any of you guys John Deere fanatics?

My Grandpa has two old JD snomobiles out at his place, they haven't run in years. He told me i could take them last year if i wanted to play around with them. Well now that i've bought a place, and i have room for them I think i probably will.

Anyways, my question is, does anybody know if any of the JD snowmobiles had reverse? I could have swore he said one of the them has reverse, but i was talking to a guy at work and he said he thought that JD never had reverse on any of thier snowmobiles.
 
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 09:11 AM
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i had 4 of them back in the early 80's 3 440 liquidfires, and 1 340. they all had kawasaki engines, and no reverse.
the 440's were very fast machines. they would 80+mph
 
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 10:49 AM
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I am not sure if they came with reverse but, you could get it aftermarket
 
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 06:57 PM
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it may be an aftermarket reverse kit, a good sledding buddy had 2 jd's the 440's were quick
 
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 07:11 PM
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they must not be the 440's, last time they were running I was probably 10 or so, but I think they only went 45- 50.
 
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Old Nov 7, 2007 | 07:44 PM
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well I have two arctic cats now with 800 efi in them and they will 90 plus so i doubt those JD's hit any where near 80
 
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Old Nov 8, 2007 | 12:56 AM
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well, from the spec i've found on them (none of them have told me they had reverse) they things only weigh 375-400 pounds. What do those arctic cats weigh?
 
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