Springtime Snowmobile Trailer Maintenance
Andy Swanson
April 10, 2012
Spring is the time to slather parts of snowmobile trailers in lightweight oil and grease to protect it from corrosion over the summer. Taking, literally, a few minutes now to work some preventive maintenance into your springtime ‘to-do’ list will help prevent serious corrosion that could... Read more »
Prepping A Snowmobile For The Off-Season
March 7, 2012
Every spring, many a snowmobile coasts to a stop at the end of the season’s last ride — and there it sits. In the yard all spring, summer and fall for the world to see. Unprotected from the elements, it degrades. Fuel hoses harden, seat fabrics dry out and crack, and rust forms on internal engine... Read more »
How To Remove An Arctic Cat ProCross, ProClimb Drive Belt
February 14, 2012
The easiest way to remove a ProCross/ProClimb belt is to remove the driven clutch. Have you been stumped about how to remove the drive belt from a 2012 Arctic Cat ProCross or ProClimb snowmobile? We have, recently, and ended up using brute force to take the belt off the rear clutch of our Arctic Cat... Read more »
How To Replace a Snowmobile Seat Cover
February 10, 2012
Hold on to a snowmobile long enough and its seat cover will eventually split, crack or tear. Maybe a boot-lace eyelet hooked it or a neighbor’s dog chewed a hole. Maybe you’re restoring a vintage sled and it needs a new skin. No problem. Replacing a seat cover is relatively simple … if you have... Read more »
Cracked Snowmobile Fuel Tank Filler Neck
December 13, 2011
Back-ordered snowmobile parts are a bummer, but sometimes you can get by and make the old broken parts work until the new one comes in. In this case: a fuel tank. If the threads are cracked on your snowmobile’s fuel tank filler neck, you might be able to cut the neck off and still get a good seal... Read more »
Does this orange helmet make my head look big?
June 24, 2011
I wear a blaze orange helmet — and a Tekvest chest protector — to be safe, and fact is that most other people who work in the snowmobile industry do, too. There’s a reason that snowmobile racers are required to have 144 square inches of international orange on their helmets; it’s so they can... Read more »
Snowmobile Chemicals, Lubes and Cleaners
June 2, 2011
Almost all snowmobile repairs involve the use of a lubricant, solvent, sealant or chemical of some type. Fact is that there are a lot of these products available, so how does a person know which is the most effective or safest cleaner or chemical for a particular repair? Here are 10 common products that... Read more »
Snowmobile Product Testing: TEAM Tied clutch
January 7, 2011
January 7, 2010 Yesterday was a fun day of tuning and testing on our 2011 Ski-Doo Renegade E-TEC 800R X demo sled. I spent the day at the TEAM Industries shop on Detroit Lakes, Minn., with TEAM General Manager Mark Schiffner and Product Development Coordinator Jason Koskela where we installed the company’s... Read more »
Tech Professor: Two-Stroke Exhaust Hardware
January 7, 2011
In the 1960s, it wasn’t uncommon to see a piece of flex pipe hanging out the side of a snowmobile hood, obviously retrofitted by the sled’s owner. It was loud, and if the pipe happened to be about 15 inches long, it made better power than the muffler that was originally attached to the exhaust port.... Read more »
Why Snow Goer uses snowmobile studs
December 22, 2010
December 22, 2010 Yesterday was a busy day out at the Snow Goer shop near our office in Minneapolis. The place where we store and service our machines needed some organization and some of our demo sleds received their first modifications: snowmobile studs. Our toolbox was in dire need of a refill after... Read more »
