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So I am running the new lightweight 280 track in 174 length on my t3 174 sled.
When I put the track on I felt like it just didn't build ground speed in the soft snow very well. But I figured it just needed to break it. It pulled like an animal in a track or on a road. And on one day in late October it was June type snow...sopping wet, setup. Pulled good then too.
I now have 400 miles with the track. It just feels like it won't push the sled to any ground speed in soft snow. With my old t3 track, when I hit the throttle it would trench some but the skis would come up and the sled would head forward. After I was on the throttle for a brief period of time the sled would be planing and building speed. With the 280 the motor bellows and strains but it won't lift out of its trench. It now acts like a boat that wont plane. track speed is down on a typical climb from the old t3 track. I am chaulking that up to trenching deeper at any given point in the hill. You have to let off and coax it up on the snow...which can't be done when the sled is really having to work.
To get the sled to have any fun factor I had to loosen the limiter 2 notches from where I was running it with the t3 track. Or the skis were just planted, it would not loft the skis, just settle the rear of the sled.
It's strange to explain, but at any given point with the 280 track on the sled, I feel like the rear of the sled is deeper in the snow.
Skid is in good working order. I have tried a couple different clutch setups and a couple different gearing packages.
What's the deal? Anyone else having any issues with it? Or I am all alone..
Thanks
Jake
When I put the track on I felt like it just didn't build ground speed in the soft snow very well. But I figured it just needed to break it. It pulled like an animal in a track or on a road. And on one day in late October it was June type snow...sopping wet, setup. Pulled good then too.
I now have 400 miles with the track. It just feels like it won't push the sled to any ground speed in soft snow. With my old t3 track, when I hit the throttle it would trench some but the skis would come up and the sled would head forward. After I was on the throttle for a brief period of time the sled would be planing and building speed. With the 280 the motor bellows and strains but it won't lift out of its trench. It now acts like a boat that wont plane. track speed is down on a typical climb from the old t3 track. I am chaulking that up to trenching deeper at any given point in the hill. You have to let off and coax it up on the snow...which can't be done when the sled is really having to work.
To get the sled to have any fun factor I had to loosen the limiter 2 notches from where I was running it with the t3 track. Or the skis were just planted, it would not loft the skis, just settle the rear of the sled.
It's strange to explain, but at any given point with the 280 track on the sled, I feel like the rear of the sled is deeper in the snow.
Skid is in good working order. I have tried a couple different clutch setups and a couple different gearing packages.
What's the deal? Anyone else having any issues with it? Or I am all alone..
Thanks
Jake