99 rmk 700 trailing arm mount again!!!!

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• Jan 31, 2011

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i had my sled out this weekend and i was bangin down this coolie and my ski barely got hung up on the right side and i heard a snap i was probly only doing about 5 mph when i heard the snap i thought i broke a trailing arm but the trailing arm showed no damage got to lookin and it broke the mount that i had to replace when i bought my sled, its a pain in the a** and the mount is like 180 bucks from the dealer is there anything you can do to reinforce these mounts because i would prefer to break a trailing arm over the mount and only have to fix the mount one more time, thanks in advance!

 

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• Feb 1, 2011

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Stop hitting stuff.

You can build a bracket to rivet to the mount by the foot rest and then tie it forward and in to the bulkhead. Guys that do chaincase rolls do that to give some support.

Are you still running the stock skis with the stock rubber stoppers. In my experience, the stock rubber stoppers were so soft that when you bumped across stuff the ski would flip straight up and cause all the force to transfer into the trailing arm instead of bouncing across the object. I tried several things and finally just put SLT skis on mine.

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• Feb 1, 2011

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sled_guy said:

Stop hitting stuff.

You can build a bracket to rivet to the mount by the foot rest and then tie it forward and in to the bulkhead. Guys that do chaincase rolls do that to give some support.

Are you still running the stock skis with the stock rubber stoppers. In my experience, the stock rubber stoppers were so soft that when you bumped across stuff the ski would flip straight up and cause all the force to transfer into the trailing arm instead of bouncing across the object. I tried several things and finally just put SLT skis on mine.

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thanks sled_guy might you have a few pics of this fix i got a good idea of what you mean but a pic is worth a thousand words they say lol, my sled does have slp skis so i dont belive my ski folded up causing this, i was thinking of maybe coming off the shaincase bolts to the bracket to beef it up but dont know what i will do with the other side, and i will try to stop hitting things but we all know how tough that is lol

 

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• Feb 2, 2011

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I don't have a picture. But it's a strap that goes forward past the chaincase and then rivets to the bulkhead in front of the chaincase.

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• Feb 2, 2011

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ok well i grabed a street sign from work got the old mount straightend out and goin to start on it tonight will see how it goes!

 

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• Feb 2, 2011

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you might look at your radius arm too, thats what was causing mine to break repeatedly..rod threads were stripped out.jamb nut must have come loose at some point....hard to see with the skid pan in place

 

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• Feb 3, 2011

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hey how do you put pics up on here i snapped a few amd want to show you guys what i got goin do i need a photobucket account or somethin to post pics?

 

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• Feb 4, 2011

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posting pics

You need to have some place to host them.
Photobucket works great. You can upload the pics to there and post the link here and they pop right up.

 

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• Feb 5, 2011

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ok got a photo bucket account so hope these pics work, im not for sure if my tunnel is stock or not but i believe i was having problems because there was like 4 rivets that were at the edge where the trailing arm bolts on and for some reason there is no tunnel to rivet to. so this is what i came up with to fix it it really stiffened up my tunnel also. now i just gotta do the other side let me know what you guys think!