well my mod motor is a memory now

well timing could not have been better. two rides on $400 pistons and then it all happend......

I was riding with a couple good buds in a great area in fresh deep pow. I went over the bars on a pretty hard hit..... sled rolls over...no real big deal....this is step one of the end for me. I make a long pull up a not too steep hill with a couple step ups in it.....this got me closer to the end.....do you see it coming yet? next I jump off the trail down a pretty steep hill.....just about to the bottom I stab the juice....it makes a pop! crap.....I have one 50 foot hill between me and a good trail out....I stab it to the bar......I make it, but it is not good noises.

guess it yet?

ok, there was a clutch shim that was dropped into my air box ducting at some time in my sleds life......I think the roll over got it just perfect where it could jump into the airbox on the step ups........then the long pull was perfect for getting it to wiggle into place where it could get sucked in.....course the steep hill helped a ton.......so I broke the pto side rod pin clean off, beat the living heck out of my head, and, well I am looking at a bit of welding for sure

the killer for me is I JUST got to a place that I was happy with my clutching, and jetting. my good piston wash was bang on the money 100% perfect, I had not a hint of a bog....it was rockin'. bearing look perfect.....stupid space junk!!
it will be back next year, but I am done for this year......


so back to 862cc I go

moral of the story, check your sled if you bought it used, keep foreign crap out of your sled.......learn from my mistake!

I actually thought I smoked my reeds too, there was a piece of the shim that had not gone through te reeds completely... that was what actually told me what it was. I think the stars must have been in perfect alignment to pull it all off. the good news is the reeds are not junk.