smallengineguy

Like to tinker with your sled? Here are some links to help!

Wanna know how to check your sled over before the season starts? Check out these Pre-Season Checklists!
Sled prep 1
Sled prep 2
Sled prep 3

Here are some how-to's to help you save time and cash by doing it yourself!

Hard starting engine?

Carb Rich vs. Lean Symptoms

Carb Cleaning

EVERYTHING you need to know about how Mikunis work!

Mikuni Carb size chart

EVERYTHING you need to know about clutching!!

Mikuni VM round slide carb manual

Tillotson HD carb diagram/rebuild guide

Tillotson HR carb diagram

Walbro diagrams and tuning

Firecat tips and tricks

Arctic Cat throttle switch override how-to

Piston Diagnosis

Clutch Removal, cleaning, etc.

Clutch cleaning Advice by RJGleason

Speedometer quit? Check these things!

Track Changing

Got a stuck/spinning skid bolt? Try here!

Priming your oiler system

Airbox Mods

Track fitment guide (bottom of page)

Seat Recovering

How to polish your tunnel to make it shine!

Ski Doo operators manuals

Ski Doo Clutch Spring Colors

Yamaha Trouble Code list

How to build a ramp for your pickup

Power Sports Resource

Vintage Snow

How to fix a broken Recoil

A little interesting reading to take up some summer time!:

2-stroke porting article

Clutch Theory/Calibration

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Baitbucket

Nice post smallengineguy....extremely helpful

Cat Kid

Thanks for the good post SEG... very useful

maytagjoe

awesome post (again) thanx.

Articat6524

Hi. I have a 1971 panther 399 and it has no spark. i checked the points and they were working corectly. could you help me out.

smallengineguy

It can be the coil, the points, condenser, or key/kill switches. Unplug those first to eliminate them.

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1993 Ski Doo Mach Z 780 triple
2001 Ski Doo Mini Z



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If I'm not home, CHECK THE TRAILS!

Bottomsup

Good Post SEG, Thanks

puteman1

smallengineguy thanks for the links for the sled maintenance. They will help me greatly on getting this sled ready for this winter. I printed everything out

smallengineguy

No problem, man!

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1993 Ski Doo Mach Z 780 triple
2001 Ski Doo Mini Z



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Arctic_Cat_27

Thanks for the info!

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sledneck369

hey got a question i need to loosen my belt on my 99 indy 340 deluxe cuz it won't stay idling and the local sled place said the belt was too tight...any thing on that???

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tamacat

Firecat tips and tricks disappeared. Can anyone else open it? I can't for some reason.I keep getting the PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND message.

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jagermiester

Not me, same message

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beavernutts

Same for me "Dead link alert" Can you add this one?http://www.motorcyclecarbs.com/carbs101.pdf

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formulaplus93

very nice helpful ! cheers !

wildCatjamie

perfect just what ive been looking for,,,,,perfert post,,,thanks

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Snohorse

Absolutely in the middle of the bullseye, especially the stuff about the blasted speedometer!

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frozenbeaver

small engine guy thanks a bunch, I read a bunch of your tips and have used most of them to track down small to medium problems I wanted fixed before hitting the drifts this year. awesome post.

RenegadeSweden

Hi

I have a prob with my 2000´Arctic Cat ZRT 800. It runs good with half-throttle and RPM goes also up to 8000.

But if I go on full throttle (and just there) it seems like it is getting no gasoline and the effect isn´t there anymore.
I already changed the spark plugs and the response was better. I also checked the Safety Switch.... and I took away all electric devices by unplugging the 4-pin cable next to the engine.

Any ideas what it can be?

Yamagirl

Hi Small engines guy. I've got a 1979 Yamaha ET300 and I had the oil tank off of it. I read how to bleed an oil system but there is no bleeder on the oil pump. I will tell you what I did. Could you tell me if you think my way is Ok please? I already made the mistake of not bleeding the oil pump on one other snowmobile. That was an expensive mistake. Anyway what I did this time was gently pressurized the oil tank while the engine was running. The tank is about 1/2 full. The oil line from the pump goes into the intake and I cant see it. But it is still smokeing like a 2 stoke should. Please let me know what you think of my method for bleeding the pump.