I miss snow....
Working on restoring my 02 viper! It looked all polished when I bought it with 1100 miles but a few mis haps on my own AND I uncovered some things not mentioned by the previous owner so I'm repainting the hood, etc... everything painted will be new.
Next is the engine I'm getting that polished up and still debating on installing my SLP pipes, I wannnnnt them bad but don't know have the time to mess with them in the winter, SE MN means low snow and all we get is 10-12 trips a year plus whatever we drive up north for. Also going to try installing a ATACC and give that a try.
It has a new track but had used studs which are now shot so I'm replacing all those(192), replacing the skis and wear rods, replacing the snow flap and corresponding metal because all the rivets were loose, adding the rear heat exchanger, and fixing a minor coolant leak.
Next is the suspension, I want to get all the shocks revalved to my weight through pioneer and get the rear calibrated so it only drops the 1" or less when I sit on it. The trailing arm is a crinkled mess and getting replaced, the alignment is off at the bars and skies, etc. So its all going to get re-worked back to new spec.
A 02 shouldn't need all this! I am hard on things and so was the previous guy so all in all the yammie is the only thing that will keep asking for more!
I'm also a very newbie mechanic on sleds, I always just rode and never worked on stuff, but now that I own it I want it perfect so I probably wouldn't have to do most of this stuff, just want it set up perfect. This site is invaluable for helping me through this stuff. I'm a engineer by trade but clutches and carbs don't reside in my peanut brain, I'm used to other stuff so learning this is proving to be harder then I thought, next will be just trying to actually do it myself and not screw it up!
