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Old 11-13-2005, 11:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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First ride damage!!

I've got a buddie's '03 Vertical Escape in my shop with the driveshaft removed since he nailed a stump on friday and toasted one of his extrovert drivers. Anybody else got any good stories?
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Old 11-14-2005, 03:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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damn that stinks, no stories yet
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Old 11-14-2005, 07:32 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Kelowna eh? B.C. riding rocks!
how much snow there?
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Old 11-15-2005, 06:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I took the cover of of mine sat on it drinking a beer and watched TV. put the cover back on and went back in the house. STILL WAITING FOR SNOW
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Old 12-12-2005, 02:54 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I just put a new front torque arm and new rear shocks under my 2000 rmk. One of the welds cracked loose and bent the arm and the shock up pretty bad. Of course this damage was all from last year. But, while I was at it, I swapped the 144" with a 159". I'm excited to see the difference.
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Old 01-22-2006, 02:23 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I hit a rock over christmas on my 04 700 vertical escape. Broken trailing arm $170 from polaris, broken stabalizer bar $30, 3 of those little eye bolts $30 each , a ryde fx clicker shock $310, bent trailing arm to running board bolt $10, and a little ski dammage free. Geting 2 miles from the truck before hitting a rock...Pricless.


Thats for parts only I did the work myself.


One ride before the drive shaft bearing went out but I didn't realize. So I rode it till the shaft wore through the bearing and into my tunnel. When I saw what happend I started for the truck but didn't make it all the way before it came so far out of alignment that the chaincase couldent turn it any more. So me and my buddy put the back of my track on the tunnel of his sled, tied it on and pulled it backwards to the truck...It sucked monkey nuts. That cost around $600 to fix, its been an expensive season.
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Old 01-22-2006, 10:04 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Ouch. Those repairs all together like that would put me out for the season!
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Old 01-25-2006, 03:27 PM   #8 (permalink)
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My first ride on my new skidoo and I was going farely fast across the lake and I heard a loud noise, stopped and took a look and I find that I blew a belt and my clutch spun out and locked at the end of the shaft lol.
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Old 01-26-2006, 06:44 AM   #9 (permalink)
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What happened to your oil cap?
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Old 01-26-2006, 05:25 PM   #10 (permalink)
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took my buddies to a meadow of powder I knew about and me and one or my friends did good because of the 136 tracks but one of my buddies has a 121 and it wasnt cuttin it he got into the deepest part and got stuck so we got him going again and he got stuck agian we did this every 10 feet for 200 feet pain in the @$$
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Old 01-29-2006, 10:25 PM   #11 (permalink)
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he got stuck about 10 times me on the 121 2 times the last was because i bolw my motor
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