February 28, 2009

Rebuilding the top end

Sludge rebuilt his top-end a couple of weeks ago. Then I rebuilt the top-end on the M7 Arctic Cat (with Tom's help), now it is time for the Ski-doo 800. Over 6000 miles on this sled. This will be the 2nd top-end for this sled. Figured it was easier and cheaper to rebuild them before they blow and actually do damage. Not too hard to do after someone shows you what is up. Prior to this we would wait until they blow and then pay someone to repair them. Doing it on our own....parts $210 for the M7 and $259 for the Ski-doo. Cheap maintenance to keep them going. Chris Appman and Sludge tore the Ski-doo apart while I was at work today. Took them perhaps 45 minutes. Probably took me 2 hours to rebuild it (drinking beer during the operation).

The cranks

The cylinders, cleaning them up

Double ring pistons, better than the crappy single rings that are stock.

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