These sleds are amazing. A single carbed, fan cooled monster of an engine. I still don't know how these made so much power season after season. Just a basic snowmobile. We beat that sled to death and it NEVER gave up. I think my friend still has it after 30 years...
I owned a 1980 Moto-Ski Futura LC which was the same as an Everest LC with the 462 cc rotary valved liquid version of this one. I always thought it had a cool look about it and the LC was pretty fast.
Nice find. I got a 1981 Everest 500 I bought for 50 bucks 8 years ago and I use it for ice fishing or bombing through the fields with. Very reliable engine on them
My dad bought a 69 Olympic when I was very young. It was broke more than it ran so I learned a lot of mechanical skills as a kid. It's hard to believe the evolution that took place over that 10 year span. I'm looking for one too but we don't get winter like we used to where I live. Good luck finding a deal like this one!
Fun little sled. Store it well off season now. Green lantern gas baby! Thanks so much for the carb clean part and Fuel filter and rest, I have to do all that for my 1985 Artic Cat Panther. Very helpful! I'm on Day 5 of zee bug. Mines pull start only but oil injected and fan cooled not air cooled like the Pantera Artic Cat. Has hand warmers! ooh lah, lah! How are your disk break adjust? I have to sort that out on mine. No breaks. My coworker says, "Why do you need breaks on a snowmobile?". terrific video guy!
Excellent video! I actually have one too, 1981 Everest 500 electro. Still runs great and requires little maintenance. Sometimes we don't get enough snow every year, so even sitting for 2-3 years at a time, I can put fresh gas in and it starts right up. These things are beasts. Your idle still sounds a little high, (compared to mine) either that or the fuel/air mixture might need tweaked a bit yet. But looks like it's running well for you and great to see another one out there. Enjoy!
Young guy, nicely done! Have you greased the skid? Checked the bearings in the idler wheels and the wheels that tension the track? Please, consider covering these machines. Just a tarp, something.
I used to have an Everest 440, but I think mine was a 74. Mine had issues, had a shop replace all the seals and gaskets and never got it completely back together before I had to sell it to move. Never got to ride it. But it came with a 76 panther 440, that one I got to ride😢
33:56 Thank you...I got mine going last year (1980 Mirage ll) but the fuel system is still not right...I thought that was a check valve coming out of the tank, but I never tried cleaning the blockage out. Thanks again! ( I have a video on my channel)
Id be interested to see how the fuel primer lines are connected. Mine has a primer, but the lines are all gone. Im not sure where they are meant to go?
The fuel pump is operated off the engine vacuum.... The engine must be sealed up in running position inorder to work. Think of it as a closed circuit .
If I'm not mistaken, that is the exhaust pipe for the engine fan cowl. Hot air blown over the engine exits through there out into the exhaust. The Everest seems to be one of the few sleds I can find with this type of setup
