1972 Massey ferguson Ski Whiz! can we get running? 

We used to put ski spreaders on old machines like that. They're about a 4" square piece of flat stock with a 1/4" drop-down offset in the middle (so it wouldn't raise the front end at all) They actually worked wonders for stability

I had one in the 80s! Looked like a garden tractor goin thru the woods! Lots of fun! Thanks for the memories!

I had one my boss had it in the yard sitting cars and trucks . He said he took it from the dumpster from lake Geneva Wi. Rich flocks trow away. Said brand new really . I loved the sled fast sold it a friend who collect s old sleds thats best thing i did for it

My buddy's dad worked at Massey YEARS ago. We had 2 of them. I believe they were actually 292cc one lungers. Probably the only carburetor that I can rebuild blindfolded. Trust me, it'll really twist your brain for a long time if you flip flop that spacer gasket and diaphragm. Lots of good memories and 1000's of miles on them things. Definitely cables on the recoil, a frayed one one would remind you often. The good thing about the stance, I lost a bolt once on the ski, I was able to ride it home across the fields tipping it on edge until I got a bolt from the garage. There should be rubber strap keepers between the bogie wheels also. FYI... That is a handy bit of information there!!!! Great video!

Oh my gosh, lol. What a funny one this is hahaha. Thanks Man. Really appreciate all of your videos.

My neighbor had one of those Massey's when I was growing up. We hooked a tube to the back of it and beat it forever. That thing was a tank

Torch tip cleaners....nice one!

Man, childhood memories,in Alberta. Dad was a M.F. parts man/ owner & had access to that one & newer models. Thanks.

Man that sound brings back memories from the '70's. I need to go smell a chain saw running. I'm in AZ.

Had a farmer neighbor with 2 of them. Every ride he went on during our weekly rides..something on one...or both of them had to be fixed to get home! We rode Skiroules at the time...never a problem! 🙂

That victory dance was hilarious. Thanks for that.😜

Hey Pete, Ive been watching your channel for a while. I finally subscribed. Just to let you know on a trick I learned. Dried up, gooey plugged jets and fuel bowls. Its still dried up shit gas. Take a small soldering torch and heat your jets, and pilots and the clogged jet will shit out the turd. Its amazing. Take fine piece of copper wire and finish cleaning the orffice. You can take a dremmel with a wire bit and shine up the outside to make it new. Also burn out the fuel bowl and believe me it will burn cause it was once gas. take a scotch brite pad and clean the bowl. Burn the shit and its easier than waiting hours with carb cleaners. Brake clean will make it pretty again. Taking torch tip cleaners are fine, but when you have a pilot jet thats 34.5 and running a torch tip cleaner through can make it bigger and screw up your idle circut and making it run rich on idle and bog when you punch the throttle. Also another tip. Siezed bolts or broken bolts use candle wax. Heat the shit out of it and use a candle and melt it into the seized bolt. It will wick into the threads. Let it cool and extract. Repeat if necessary. Putting penetrants just make fires. Use sented candles itll make your shop smell nice. LOL

I grew up riding a blue one in the early 90s. Soo fun. My dad had the bigger version with the wide track and bigger motor. I remember drifting this till the sun set.

The old colts had the steel cable pull cord as well:) awesome old school

Just found your channel and am impressed! Those old classic sleds were built to last. I had a 68 Snow Cruiser, 70 399 Olympic Ski Doo and a 309 Chaparral. Being recently retired I am looking for a project. I will be watching your past vids. I vote for the Cummins as your next project.

Hey there!! I was just awake in the middle of the night and watching your video. You said the Tilliston carburetor is from Toledo, Oh. I am also from Toledo and have never heard of that company before. I just looked it up and learned a lot more about Toledo history. Thank you sir for that quick little statement in your video!!! Keep up the great work!! I enjoy watching your videos.

I remember rebuilding those tillotson carbs every other season because the gasket/diaphragms would dry out. Great video love that one lunger sound!

The torch cleaner works well for me. Back in 96 I went to play in the snow with my (at the time) girlfriends family, her dad had just gotten his hands on a 69 Polaris, one ride on that slow sled and I was hooked. Within a month I had a 79 Yamaha enticer 300. Been a motor sports guy ever since. No snowmobile currently but have several quads, a few three wheelers a dirt bike and my Polaris ranger. My 17 year old son has more than me. It is an addiction

I had that exact sled. Flywheel cracked. JB welded it and rode it until I used the track for a bigger john deer.

Love you fixing the older sleds and muscle sleds 1997 and up. Ski Whiz is the money shot. Take a lighter and burn the little cords showing on edge of track.

That’s Awesome , Nice Job Pete 😎👍🍺

In Huron county (Ontario) we had a 1972 while our neighbours 200m down the road had a 1970. We kids were envious of the White's (our neighbours) as they also had a wheel kit for their machine. Two wheels in place of the skis and a big driven balloon tyre under the track tunnel! We raced go carts and old motorcycles up and down the county road and they run their Ski-whiz. Our other machines were a 67 BoaSki and a 69 twin track/single ski Alpine. I cannot tell you whether this wheel kit was an option or after market. The hole in the gas cap was a fuel gauge; a spiral rod was attached to a float, it turned and moved a pointer under a clear plastic cover on the gas cap. Great videos you have.

We have two at my grandpas. They’ve been on the farm longer then I’ve been alive. One of them still runs good.

Great job Pete... Tractor week is cool!! I. Think any project you pick will be a great build. Enjoy your videos keep up the good work 👍👍 Have a good rest of your week.

Haven't seen one of those since I was a kid. We used to attend local ice festivals that had vintage snowmobile "races", they always ended up being the most reliable that wins because it was the only one that finished

I have had 7 massey ski whiz sleds still have my 74 444t since i was 16 yrs old

great channel to watch (sled guy myself in maine ) love these old iron videos of people bringing them back around! hope more people watch and you get more subs!!!

That is such an awesome snowmobubble...I would love to find to find one of those.Looks like that is going to be an awesome series....??

Boggie wheels, got to love em. Ran my 73 12 Elan all year round. In the summer I would take the cab off, had big loops for the skies and used her to cross the big bog to get to me cabin. little bugger always worked like a charm.

My neighbour had two deluxe models in the early 70s. Black with lots of chrome, and a cigarette lighter.😂

That was an awesome video. I wish you could post daily!

Do you remember when these machines were called 'Massey Ferguson snowmobiles' and the 'Ski Whiz' label came later? Those bad-boys were built to last, albeit the MF brand like everything else back-in-the-day required some frugal 'tinkering' just a few years from the assembly line. Ski Whiz is on my bucket-list of must-have restored snowmobiles.

Reminds me of my dad's ol Massey tractor lol

Love your channel Pete. Keep up the great work. Those Tiltoson HR and HD carb diaphragms will distort from the ethanol in our shitty gas now. That’s what the bubble was that you said something must’ve got in there. It’s also what causes them to go hard.

That was a good one. Your project, you pick it. I'll be pulling the skid out of my phazer 2 or at least checking all the bogey wheels & replacing all fuel & oil lines. In the summer when I won't freeze doing it. I'll be loyal. Keep uploading, I watch. ENJOY.

Amazing job! You looked a little to happy at 28:49! 😂 Yell deserved!

Sweet vid Pete! Love those old machines. I vote for the LS Dakody for the next big one. THAT looks like some fun! 🍻

I remember as a kid my uncle dragged a ski whiz out of the Golden rods. By the time he got it running for us all the snow had melted. So we rode it in one of his flooded fields.

Seems like the needle retainer would need to be adjusted. Can't recall the spec. but I think .012 proud of the carb body , measured with a straight edge. So the button on the diaphragm opens it the right amount. Been a while since I've had one apart. Probably have an old manual laying around some where. These old sleds bring back some fond memories of a simpler time.

That is one well built sled, but winter is almost over but I'll still be going on the tundra when the game birds get here another great video Pete, I'm actually partial to Tillotson carbs and the sound of the engine is now one of my favorites 😂i think that is one baddddd sled👍

Great vid!

That gas cap looks like it'll be a potential pain in the ass!😮

Nice. I have the same one lunger and a couple twins. Grew up with the pop pop popper. Lol

I have a 73 arctic cat panther with a tillotson carb. Doesn't run so good, probably needs a carb rebuild. The sled is mint though for a 73, looking forward to getting her running for next winter here in central Maine.

Pretty badass Ski-Whiz

Great video peat

The old sleds are fun to ride. You had to ride it can't just jump on and go like the new one's. It is a blast here in Wisconsin with poker runs with 40 or so sleds eh!

Definitely need the bourbon would love to see the lift kit put in and that was a great video

I had one of those machines back in the 80's as a teen - was a blast in the snow. Also had a Moto-Ski 440, but the MF'r was better in deep snow.

Last time I saw one of these ole girls was down here in South Dakota.

Had a 1973 Ski Whiz 340 great first sled looked way more modern

I think you missed your calling. I'm sure I detected a few notes that were on Key.... NICE!

What a beast ! Sweet

Benn plowed so much, Old JLo’s diaphragm was wrecked/worn out at least twice👋👋😉

Nice vid as always

I had the same problem getting at a nit on a 7,5 mercury i heated my rinch with a torch tell it was good and red and bent it worked like a charm hope this helps i no iam not the first to do this love your v ids iam hooked.

Switch over to a mikuni and you got a sweet running machine that starts and runs every time, had the 350ss with the 340 single for a few years and used it a lot for pull wood out of the bush and daily rider. 2 pulls cold and a quarter pull hot every time.Not a tippy ass it looks. Good on fuel too. Miss that machine.

Had one of these long ago as a 13 year old, old reliable but so slow. No electric start and an actual wrap around the pulley rope start since so much was missing from my machine. The hood was barely holding on and the carb would fill with snow at times but I always got home with it. Also had the 440 twin JLO, faster but so prone to melting pistons, bad design.

Nice job

This will be cool I hope the buddy of mine partially restored and get one going

pretty cool that uses the same carb as 70s and 80s stand up jetskis

And yup, I drove one of those as well. I would call it, " A Rough Rider " not unlike the older Singles , Snow Jets.

Hey Pete…I just bought a ‘18 Sidewinder XTX SE 141….i was wondering if you could do some sort of video to do pre-season maintenance on a sidewinder….how you change out the belt quick among other tips and tricks that has to do with this particular sled. Thanks, Pete. Keep the great videos going

Interested in seeing more of the Dakody project. Got a couple myself.

Had the same machine, pretty fast for the day but did not like deep snow. Steering was also a suggestion, wanted to go through instead of around.

The old scorpions had steel cables as well

When holding fine machined parts such as carbs, in a steel vice, I usually will place heavy rubber between intake and outflow of carbs, just on the more safe side. Awesome videos Man.

My Dad whated to buy me one when i was younger because he could get a good deal he worker at Massey's in Brantford but I convinced him because it was to heavy and I didn't want a tractor for the snow lol I finally got a ski doo tnt 294 1971 thank God lol

Not a bad LOOKIN SLED

Pre-mix works every time. Need some squirt bottle(s) from eBay... makes it a lot easier...

Oh don't forget to put a couple ounces of oil in the chain box. There should be a filler plug about 2 inches from the bottom.

Love watching your videos, makes me miss the great white north, How do I get one of them sweat shirts for the cool nights in sunny Fla ???

We put one of those boat in line hand pumps in our ski whiz so that we can prime it

Toboggan with skis😂😂😂😂😂

My friend had one back in the day, we referred to it as “the cheddar”

dodge is going to be a sweet build👍

I love your videos they're so informational I have a 1990 Indy 500 and I was wondering about if there's a thing that commonly goes out on the old wedge style Polaris sleds just want to know because I'm finally getting about a foot of snow

Canadian Tire sells those rebuild kits for Tilson carburetors as well

Cool little fix… film yourself working on anything and people will watch ✌🏻

Love your channel. Could you find a 1999 polaris xcr 800 to work on :)

If it’s a small engine and you can make it go fast that’s what we want to see. We need to finish that golf cart still lol

The suburban with a lift kit bro do that one 👍👍

I been looking for a 72 skiroule rtx 300 for years. I had one when I was a kid. 72 mph. fast for a 292 sach.

Bad ass !

My buddies was a little older and it actually had electric start and it was a 500 I believe

Ram that air into a snow storm, and have a great day when going home after the long weekend, hurry. Get back to work for the next day, sun is setting. Blizzard is on.

Well I had no clue you were a fellow Canuck or as we seem to be these days Chinadian. LOL. Oops sorry. So any way I guess I'll support my local madness and subscribe!

I think you need to buy a set of Crow's feet ranches

What's the best way to clean out a gas tank ?

By the way your a blast

where do you fid these carb rebuild kits. been looking on amazon and ebay and cant find one

Mine was v 2 cly. Jay jo

Have you thought of starting a collection or museum of some of these

sweet

I had a 74 ski whiz 440 wt

Doing a old 68 moto ski

The tag on mine says manufactured 9/72 but it has square headlights. Are you sure yours isn't older?

We have a lot of good deals for blown motors. For ATV's

we had one. Nova Scotia Canada. eh.

remove the fuel line and throw it away, they leak. Pull it over with the key off after 4 pulls turn the key on