Hey guys! Was recently just given a older panther 440 for free from my uncle! :thumbsup: It run's alright but of course why not make it run better? Here's some of the questions and things i would like to do to it.
It idles but not the greatest, im gonna finish running this gas out of it (who knows how old it is) and clean the carbs. I've never cleaned the carbs but i'm pretty mechanically inclined and can learn how to do this. Does anyone have any good tutorials or links out there to doing this? Should i also need to rebuild my carbs? I know on my old goped gas scooters we had to rebuild the carbs every so often.
I think i also need to tune my carbs. You can get on the gas and it goes but then like mid rpm it's like it actually kicks in then. Could either not be getting enough fuel till that point where it kicks in or could be getting too much and not burning it till that point. Im thinking it's not getting enough fuel though because the carb's have got to be filthy and it's some terrible old gas and doesn't idle good. Is their a good tutorial or does anyone have any suggestions on how to tune my carbs?
I think the track needs tightening also. When turning the sled while driving slow it's got a pretty bad chatter like it's almost jerking and sounds like it's clicking or something. Im thinking the track is real loose or i read that theirs a chain that could have stretched? I've never tightend a track before as this is my first sled but i wan't it to run for a while
Is their a way i can stiffen up the rear suspension also? The front seems fine but i managed to find a cool snow drift that drifted around some haybails and it's probably a 15 foot gap that we were doubling, it was pretty fun! But the rear seem's real soft and mushy and it bottoms out sometimes coming down off ditch approaches hard. I don't know if the rear shock can be stiffened or what and i don't want to mess with the pre load or something and have it buck and endo me.
Seat, also the seat isn't in the best condition on this thing and im not a fan of the passenger seat on the back. Im really the only one that drive's this thing and theirs hardly any passengers. Could i replace the seat on this with one from a ZR or something?
Handle bars, i know these handlebars have hand warmers and all that fancy stuff but their way too low while standing. I mostly stand the hole time im riding the thing and these bars are very uncomfortable. Is their any bars that will work on this thing that are taller?
Pipe, I was reading some reviews on this thing last night and it said that the panther 440's only put out like 50 horse. Now i was wondering if their is any aftermaket pipes for these or any that would work on these from different models. I mainly like the sound of them over the stock but more power would be greatly appreciated
Here's a video of the little jump we were hitting. It's dark out so it's hard to see anything. But we come down that hump and pin it to make the jump. You can kinda hear it it's not revving all that high after we pin it. It's got some lag in it and then gets on it good usually from a dead stop.
I checked some of the links here and it seems that the clutch is the best way to change performance and what not. I don't think anything is done to this clutch. Should i dissassemble and clean it?
This is basically my first sled and i don't think very much maintenance has ever been done on it. Id like to get it running and in best mechanical state as possible for best performance! So sorry for all the questions, new sled owner here!
Ill try taking a better vid during the day the jump's still there
Here is a link to the vid
It idles but not the greatest, im gonna finish running this gas out of it (who knows how old it is) and clean the carbs. I've never cleaned the carbs but i'm pretty mechanically inclined and can learn how to do this. Does anyone have any good tutorials or links out there to doing this? Should i also need to rebuild my carbs? I know on my old goped gas scooters we had to rebuild the carbs every so often.
I think i also need to tune my carbs. You can get on the gas and it goes but then like mid rpm it's like it actually kicks in then. Could either not be getting enough fuel till that point where it kicks in or could be getting too much and not burning it till that point. Im thinking it's not getting enough fuel though because the carb's have got to be filthy and it's some terrible old gas and doesn't idle good. Is their a good tutorial or does anyone have any suggestions on how to tune my carbs?
I think the track needs tightening also. When turning the sled while driving slow it's got a pretty bad chatter like it's almost jerking and sounds like it's clicking or something. Im thinking the track is real loose or i read that theirs a chain that could have stretched? I've never tightend a track before as this is my first sled but i wan't it to run for a while
Is their a way i can stiffen up the rear suspension also? The front seems fine but i managed to find a cool snow drift that drifted around some haybails and it's probably a 15 foot gap that we were doubling, it was pretty fun! But the rear seem's real soft and mushy and it bottoms out sometimes coming down off ditch approaches hard. I don't know if the rear shock can be stiffened or what and i don't want to mess with the pre load or something and have it buck and endo me.
Seat, also the seat isn't in the best condition on this thing and im not a fan of the passenger seat on the back. Im really the only one that drive's this thing and theirs hardly any passengers. Could i replace the seat on this with one from a ZR or something?
Handle bars, i know these handlebars have hand warmers and all that fancy stuff but their way too low while standing. I mostly stand the hole time im riding the thing and these bars are very uncomfortable. Is their any bars that will work on this thing that are taller?
Pipe, I was reading some reviews on this thing last night and it said that the panther 440's only put out like 50 horse. Now i was wondering if their is any aftermaket pipes for these or any that would work on these from different models. I mainly like the sound of them over the stock but more power would be greatly appreciated
Here's a video of the little jump we were hitting. It's dark out so it's hard to see anything. But we come down that hump and pin it to make the jump. You can kinda hear it it's not revving all that high after we pin it. It's got some lag in it and then gets on it good usually from a dead stop.
I checked some of the links here and it seems that the clutch is the best way to change performance and what not. I don't think anything is done to this clutch. Should i dissassemble and clean it?
This is basically my first sled and i don't think very much maintenance has ever been done on it. Id like to get it running and in best mechanical state as possible for best performance! So sorry for all the questions, new sled owner here!
Ill try taking a better vid during the day the jump's still there
Here is a link to the vid
