Here's to no more blow-outs for you, Morris My French teacher back in high school used to take his Toyota 4-runner on the sled trails...I'm sure your F150 could do it.

Happy Hump day all...

 

Sledders just love 4X4 tracks on the trails eh Sherm, not

 

Morning Guys

Curtis - you are correct with the 12 hour drive, my dad has done it in 10 hours but I'm never in a hurry enough to risk losing my license haha. My inlaws are about 10 minutes from your house so if people needed a safe place to leave their trailers, I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem with that.

As long as the sled trip is after new years I'll be there! I gotta work Christmas eve, day, and boxing day!! ALL TRIPPLE TIME!! Just too bad its only 9 hour days and not 12s!

 

Its a good way to get hurt if you get caught doing it, or sledders could get hurt also. I remember one ride back east where someone had stolen a Timber Jack log skidder and went down the trail for a bit with it. 3' deep trenches for about 2 miles before they rolled it over an embankment. That was a very unpleasant 2 miles.

 

That would be nasty to hit at trail speed, I was up in Quebec sledding & I came head on to a car with a woman driver, good thing I had room to pull off to the side, wow

 

Good Morning gents. Feels like a nice day out there so far. Contimplating a sled ride today or hitting the city for some X-Mas shopping. Dunno







I'd love to turbo as well. If the Phazer had another 20-30hp it would be a contendor in the speed department. More so some bottom end rump is needed so you don't have to keep speeds up to manouver certain obsticals. Most of all a bit more bite out of a tight corner. The only part, and i'm not a mechanic, I don't like is the going into the motor to reduce compression for it. I don't care what anyone says, as soon as you open anything up it'll never be the same. Reliability goes out the window as well. I met a fellow last season with a supercharged phazer. I didn't see it go but did hear it run. Electrical bugs had him down and out. Was an 07 1st Gen GT (red one) without the coldstart ECM update.

Day 3.......hopefully!! Glad there fixed Morris. Guess who has a leak in his drivers rear It's a slow leak, must have got it Monday somewhere. Darn it. Free repairs but getting it in will be a pain.

 

Happy Hump Day Mornin all. stupid busy this week. Have a great day guy's.

 

I posted this on another forum but I figured I'd post this here for those that haven't seen it.

How to get Conditioned for Snowmobiling

1. Go to your local snowmobile dealer, smile and give the first guy
you see $200. This will get you used to spending money there on a
regular basis.

2. Fill a 45-gallon barrel with sand. Lower it into a hole. Now lift
it out. If you can, add water to the sand and try it again. Do this 5
times per day. This will get your back in shape for lifting your sled
out of the deep snow.

3. Tie a rope to a heavy-duty spring. Pull the rope repeatedly with
each arm until the pain in your shoulders meets somewhere in middle
your back. This will get you in shape for starting your bud's sled,
which he conveniently forgot was out of gas. It's best to do this
exercise while someone is spraying starting fluid into your nose and
eyes also.

4. Drink four ounces of cod liver oil mixed with a strong laxative.
Dress with long underwear, wool pants, snowmobile bibs, insulated
boots and heavy coat. Walk far into the woods without any paper
products and wait for a personal emergency. This gets you prepare for
the Beer ****s that come out of nowhere, and at the wrong time.

5. Place your hands in a bucket of ice water for 20 minutes. Put the
carburetor from your lawn mower in the bottom of your deep freeze. Now
climb in the deep freeze, shut the lid and overhaul it while holding a
pen light in your mouth. This gets you prepared to work on your sled
in the freezing cold and black of night. Advanced riders do this with
a leatherman tool.

6. Dress up in your new $350 snowmobile bibs. Pour 2 stroke oil down
the right leg, gasoline down the other and Butter Ripple Schnapps and
Beer all over the front. Fill your boots with ice cubes and ask your
wife or girlfriend to dance. This will prepare her for the stops at
the local bars during a ride.

7. Put on a Balaclava and a full-face helmet. Attempt to drink beer through
the opening. Advanced riders attempt this while riding a lawn tractor
over in the nearest farmers' plowed field.

8. Find a place where you can pay $1.40 a litre for regular gas;
$19.99 per litre of oil; $16 for a Hamburger and frozen French Fries;
$3 for a coke and $160 to sleep in a cold cabin on a bed with springs
sticking through the mattress. Stay for two nights, minimum. This will
prepare you on the high cost of your future winter trips.

9. Practice explaining to your banker why you need another loan for a
$70,000 truck to pull the four $20,000 sleds, on your $15,000 trailer
that you still owe $50,000 on. Now, you are 50% ready, and somewhat
conditioned to head for the trails and ride your sled.

 

That's hillarious Randy!!

 

Good one Randy.

 

Well played Randy, part of that is the reason I don't ride sleds anymore,
I still have my 1st sled in mint condition tho,
1972 Arctic Cat Puma 340 with the Kawasaki engine

 

Happy Hump Day folks.
If I ever think I might want go sledding I`ll remember your words Randy!
Hopefully you can find a place to get your tire fixed soon Curtis, some times that`s not the case.

 

171kms today 1st one on the groomed trail (70% of the trip)
Woooooooowhooooooooo.
Still can't corner worth crap, I'm pretty sure I've had a broken part in the rear piviot arm 2 since i've bought the sled. (axle that big springs are on) Doesn't bottom out barely, ride height is 3-4" higher in the rear now and I can't drift it around corners anymore. Twitchier than heck cornering now.How could I have the skid out twice and not notice it. I had it so dialed in last season it railed the corners. Now it's the complete opposite. Arrrgggggggg, have some work ahead of me dialing her in again.

Guys, any feedback with Fox shocks? I've played around with 70-100psi. She's sitting to low and at 100psi ride heights better but there's a hard kick if I hit snow/drift with one ski. It's like there is no rebound in these shocks. Compression seems too hard. Sailing across all trail conditions they soak up little bumps like my Elka's on the race quad. Like there not even there. Very smooth throughout. Very impressed. Just have to figure out how well these can be dialed in for compression and rebound.

Morris, Gotta get it done before the Xmas break. Don't want to get stuck with a flat somewhere during the holiday. Cause murphy's law would indicate that's exactly when it'll happen lol.

 

I think I'm running like 60-70in the front, 130ish in the rear for my floats 2s.

 

Randy that was an awesome list. Very accurate.

Curtis, ditch the Fox Floats and do some Walker Evans needle points. You won't regret it.