Good afternoon !

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OK, I havent wrenched that much on snowmobiles, have done quite much though, only things I haven`t fiddled with is the secondary and taken apart a sled engine. I guess the engine is rather easy to take apart, especially the two strokes, just like a moped engine, just bigger dimensions.
Today I went a girl-friend to pick up that V-Max 600. She lives about 1kilometer from house and since we`ve got some snow now I figured that I might as well ride it "home". I expected it to start pretty fast, not that long ago since we had it running. However, the last time I heard it ran, I heard that it wasn`t running clean when she stopped it. (typical, new sled, alot of start/stops without riding the sled only to show it off for your friends etc.). I pulled probably 30times before I heard the first sign of life. When it started I imediately heard that one of the plugs where fouled. I tried to let it warm up just incase it got better, but as I expected it would only bog when I hit the throttle. I rode my moped back home and got the sparkplug wrench, rode back and pulled plugs. All wet and oily. I put in the reserve plugs (which also was used, damnit, I hate it when I find used plugs in the reserve plugs holders) and it fired right up and ran much nicer. However, I think it has a glogged pilot jet or something because it didn`t run right on idle, but when I hit the throttle and got it over 3500rpm it ran like hell.
Guess I will have to pull the carbs tomorrow?. I`ve never pulled carbs on such new sleds, but I guess it`s the same as the old ones?.
Well I got the sled home and I removed the skis in order to install the new ones.
And, now I know that it`s a 97, or, I guess that the 98 came with plastic skis because I ordered skis for a 98` and the skis I got was made for plastic skis.
However, I figured that with some modifying of the steering irons I could make it fit. (I had to extend the bolts).
First I tried to extend the original bolts by welding a another "bolt" to it (cut from a "gjengestang) and then grind it down so that it was even and then rethread the whole bolt. However, this seemed to be a bad solution because one of the bolts broke off when I put the ski back on the sled. I don`t like to do bad work so I took the steering iron off again and cut of the whole bolt, like this.
I then cut new bolts and welded them onto the steering iron. This became MUCH stronger.
I put the ski back on the sled and finally everything was OK. I`ve never spent 5 hours on changing ONE sled ski, gees hehe!.
Tomorrow I`m going to do the same with the right ski (will take less time when I know exactly how to do it, when it comes to the modifying part) + I`m going to change the exhaust gaskets and clean the carbs.
A pic them. The red one was a little scared when I fired up the tripple, haha.