Maggot snowmobile thread

**North** · 12-06-2023, 06:29 PM

Sounds like no digital engine temp display pre 2020. Ambient only. Module will only give you bars (like fuel). Ski Doods might know better. Dummy light works for me.

**Wapow** · 12-06-2023, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by North

Sounds like no digital engine temp display pre 2020. Ambient only. Module will only give you bars (like fuel). Ski Doods might know better. Dummy light works for me.

I had an XP and added the module bitd. It only adds the temp bars, but that's all you really need. Once you get to know your sled, you'll know when you need to start applying cooling efforts before it overheats. There are lots of techniques for preventing overheating, if you have half decent sled skills. Recommend the latest version SkiDoo ice scratchers for basic cooling. They work great and are hard to ruin.

Regarding the temp module, it's easy to see if you've got one. It should be mounted on top of the air intake under the hood. Picture here: http://checkout.store.ski-doo.com/p/...erature-module

**Foggy_Goggles** · 12-06-2023, 08:32 PM

Ha...scratchers. You would have thought they'd have spec'd reversible scratchers when sleds starting having reverse. The 'Doo ones are nice but you'll break the plastic bracket. Ibex makes the aluminum bracket. They also sell the Fidlock 25 which is key! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_3XP_k5hY

**adrenalated** · 12-07-2023, 10:00 AM

I'm a fan of Duraflex for scratchers

**sklar** · 12-07-2023, 10:31 AM

I do a decent amount of frozen road miles to my cabin, or road riding in warmer sticky WA snow, so just trying to be more on it this year, and overheat less. I'm plenty familiar with packing snow on the tunnel and getting better at the side of the trail fresh snow braap for cooling. I got new scratchers this fall, too. The old ones were so bent that they didn't really touch the snow anymore, hopefully that helps.

**Foggy_Goggles** · 12-07-2023, 11:32 AM

Cable scratches are a good retrofit value alternative. But they do lose spring pressure over time.

I rarely time in conditions where overheating is a major concern.

Anyone else ever seen a scratcher hook up a a trailer and stop a sled dead? I try to load and unload wearing my helmet. I've seen some shit!

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**nortonwhis** · 12-07-2023, 02:01 PM

I have a feeling this may have been asked before but am going to try again. I have lots of space next to my condo where I could potentially store my sled during the winter months so i dont have leave it on the truck all season long. However i dont think riding it into the place i would park it would go down well with the strata people. Theres a path that could be kept free of snow but in reality there is always ice buildup etc that would make it very difficult to be a smooth hard surface. So, any dollys that work for 4x4 walking a snowmobile thru snow?

**Foggy_Goggles** · 12-07-2023, 03:28 PM

https://www.discountramps.com/sled-dolly/p/SNO-1509/

This kinda thing?

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**Foggy_Goggles** · 12-07-2023, 03:50 PM

https://www.discountramps.com/sled-dolly/p/SNO-1509/

This kinda thing?

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**adrenalated** · 12-07-2023, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

Anyone else ever seen a scratcher hook up a a trailer and stop a sled dead? I try to load and unload wearing my helmet. I've seen some shit!

I have definitely never done this every other time I go out.

**nortonwhis** · 12-07-2023, 04:08 PM

Yeah that definitely looks like the best one that i have seen out there. Ill see if they have anything close to that up here in canada

**heckacali** · 12-09-2023, 12:50 AM

I will not rest until my gauges are working.

Thankfully (?) we don't have snow to go out in yet so I have time.

**ironhippy** · 12-11-2023, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by nortonwhis

Yeah that definitely looks like the best one that i have seen out there. Ill see if they have anything close to that up here in canada

they certainly exist up here, but are not designed for moving on anything except a smooth surface.

**heckacali** · 12-13-2023, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by heckacali

I will not rest until my gauges are working.

Fuck these gauges.

I am about to smash them to pieces.

Definitely something wrong with the plug to PCB interface.

Wiggle it and it sometimes comes to life.

I re-soldered the pins to the PCB and they are all solidly attached but maybe I went too hot and fucked something else up?

Also, I can't get the plug to go on easily far enough to get the retainer clip to catch.
Arrrggg

**SirVicSmasher** · 12-13-2023, 05:07 PM

Go ride it they'll probably start working

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**heckacali** · 12-13-2023, 05:26 PM

Lol, I've been thinking that also

**Cruiser** · 12-13-2023, 09:07 PM

These questions are moot when it gets deep cuz it either works or it doesn't

**SirVicSmasher** · 12-14-2023, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by Cruiser

These questions are moot when it gets deep cuz it either works or it doesn't

Can't see my gauges when it's deep

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**XXX-er** · 12-15-2023, 12:19 PM

A local philanthropist has donated a Taiga electric snow machine to the XC ski club which would seem like the perfect app

edit: I was talking to a ski club regular who told me the machine got an update that momentarily shut down the machine , sounds like a computer with a track

**Cruiser** · 01-01-2024, 05:32 PM

Low tide in the central sawatch but the kids are making the most of it

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**SirVicSmasher** · 01-01-2024, 09:27 PM

Speaking of kids ... picked up a 440 fan and a 488 fan and my girls are loving it . Skiing is terrible right now and so are the crowds so we've been getting our brap on

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**carpathian** · 01-10-2024, 09:10 AM

I loving the this new 850 eTec 165"
Finally had a decent weather window to get after it!

**Foggy_Goggles** · 01-10-2024, 11:51 AM

Good living Carp! Since this is the sled thread. Skidoo owners, check the T40 bolts on the backside of the secondary that attach to the helix. I found out the hard way that they can back out break. Could have been worse. They are a bit of a pain in the ass to get to and there are a few different ways.

**SirVicSmasher** · 01-10-2024, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

Good living Carp! Since this is the sled thread. Skidoo owners, check the T40 bolts on the backside of the secondary that attach to the helix. I found out the hard way that they can back out break. Could have been worse. They are a bit of a pain in the ass to get to and there are a few different ways.

Speaking of secondary bolts... check out this rare easy out victory after I sheared the secondary bolt off in the jackshaft at the end of a track and rail swap....
Probably going to miss the 163 on the deepest days but excited to try hopovers and re-entrys on the 155 . And just like skiing some of the best days on a snowmobile are the days you go rode with your kids

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