a buddy brought this one by for a bit of a check over. this new to him sweetie has a few issues but over all it should be a blast to rip with the ski tips up!!!
I have a 2013 F1100 Turbo. From factory, the jackshaft flexes up to 180 thousandths of an inch and the bracket that holds the jackshaft bearing on the clutch side comes attached to the engine. Every time you let off the throttle, the belt takes the brunt of the force from over shifting and it heats up. Guys have spent thousands trying to fix belt blowing issues by installing new clutches, jackshafts, etc. If you want to be done blowing belts, especially if you have it tuned up (I have 240 horse tune, cold air intake, extended track, Bikeman Clutch kit), you'll have to replace a couple parts. The bracket that holds the jackshaft on the secondary side has to be replaced as well as the jackshaft. The new brace will stop the overheating on deceleration and the heavier jackshaft will keep your secondary from pulling out of parallel when you're accelerating. This should have been addressed right from factory and a couple engineers did in fact lose their jobs at Arctic Cat over this. They now work at Polaris. lol. Scott Taylor Engineering still makes these parts and he does them well. For the double approach fix, you're looking at just shy of $1000. That's a bit to spend but better than having a $5,000+ paperweight that you don't want to ride because it constantly blows $120+ belts.
I like the trick of saying it's a pile of junk, then sayin it's pretty nice, then sayin I wanna buy it 😂😂 .. rock on .. oldest trick in the book, talk it down, then offer to buy off ur buddy after u point out all minor imperfections.. lol. We need new videos Pete, we just got snow here 2-24-2023 in NY .. IT'll prob rain tmrw and bye 68* again
Top rankings past 30 years: #1 ski-Doo #2 arctic cat #3 Polaris #4 yamamaaha They all have had seriously bad sleds But also make a few amazing sleds My opinion try em all 97' Mach z 03' F-7 98' thunder cat Yomama triple not sure what year 😎
Nice graphics,but ill take a thundercat that thing sounds like a vw or one of those rice burners.hey i need you to do a vidieo on how to figure how the old style fuel pumps work my indy 440 is driving me nuts on what nipple goes were.yup its old school not turbos n fuel injection.i may use a clicky clack just to get a run on it.ok keep them jokes coming!!snookie pa.😜🤪🤟👍🤟
I’m a long time cat fan but that year 1100 turbo I’d avoid. It’s like the 1973/74 Panther VIP. A nice idea half baked before being shipped. Cat was smarter in the old days. They didn’t hesitate to axe a model that failed and they quickly replaced it with one that was better. 1976 Panther 5000 was an anvil, a good family sled easy to maintain with a torquey 500 Suzuki that’s still easy to fix. These Grass Hopper looking sleds have a lot of issues and it seems the company just couldn’t swallow its pride and fix the design. Insanity is described as doing the same thing over again and expecting better results.
I am new to sledding and I didn’t know what to buy so I erred on the side of caution and bought a couple of new Polaris Indy sleds with 2 strokes. Nice and simple compared to what I see here and much slower. I think I prefer simple and light.
@@bartdaw6681 how is a 4 stroke have maintenance? Change the oil once a year? Boy so much maintenance. No going to the store to waste money on oil to fill up every time you go riding. No cloud of smoke from those horrible motors. No going dead from the horrible noise. You don’t smell like smoke and oil after riding like on a 2 stroke. Trust me kid, I’ve had plenty of 2 stroke sleds. Sure they are so great until you have a 4 stroke. Its night and day. Never buy a shitty slow 2 stroke again.
@@bartdaw6681 and 2 strokes blow up. Just wait and see. Nothing lasts as long and is as durable as a 4 stroke. See I you rode it one season. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️. My current sled I’m on my 11th season. ZERO problems. 100% perfect. 2 stroke would of blown up long ago. And you said it right, you don’t know much about sleds. Thinking 4 strokes have all of this maintenance. 2 strokes ur changing out plugs every 200 miles because they foul like crazy. I’m still running the same plugs that came in my sled from 2013. Never had to touch them. Factory oem. 🤣🤣. Show me a 2 stroke that’s lasting more than a few hundred miles. Not happening. Now tell me you rode 5000 miles last year on the same plugs. Looking forward to hearing that.
@@executiveinvestments how often do you have to adjust your valves? You actually have to shim them and it isn’t that much fun and requires a trip to the dealer unless you are a mechanic and there are lots of other moving parts in the valve train like the timing gears, cams, and some have lots of sensors and computers with proprietary software.
I have a M1100 turbo 2012, just bought it and it sounds like it hits a rev limiter at 8000 rpm, can’t hold it to the tape only about 3/4 throttle. Was wondering what to do was thinking of changing clutch weights? Or do you know of something else?
Hey been watching your channel for a couple days… not too shabby man. Crazy question. Why is 4 litres of 0w40 and a filter with a paper funnel worth a hundred freakin bucks? For my bike I make sure to use Jaso / MA2 rated oil, because of wet clutch. My Tacoma uses 0w20 (only use Rotella) and two 5 litre jugs are less than 80 bucks at Peavy Mart.
im a tad late on this but i recently came across a this kind of arctic cat and the engine is smoked.. my question is, will a sr viper engine fit in these 1100s? not a cat guy but more towards yamaha, but yeea would be cool to know whats compatible with these yamacats 🤔
I have that same sled onLY a 2013 RR. I bought it used the guy couldn’t tell me much about it cause he was scared of it. If there is an aftermarket can on it will it have a tune? I don’t see a programmer on it anywhere!! Man I wish u could live closer to me lol
You can send your ECU in and have it flashed. I sent mine to Speedwerx and had it flashed to 240 horse. That's about as high as you'll want to go without having to replace head studs, etc. If you have issues blowing belts, see my comment above. I just dropped $950 to fix my issues with that.
@@funtyes1970 yamaha is junk.. I use to be a ac and yamaha guy.. since they merged yamaha chassy is a pos.. bent tunnels.reverse servo. Yamaha cheaper out on the cranks now and are blowing up. Wrong shimmying of the lifters in the head causing them to have no compression in below zero temps. Ac stole skidoo x platform and got sued over it and had to pay out and stop using it.. then hacked the tooling to hack out what crummy sleds you saw for the 22 season.. half the people still waiting for the 22 season sno check sleds.. need I say any more.
@@nunyabiz8708 if someone buying a brand new i think all sleds or nice . I haven't owned a snowmobile long time but I did have few ski doo and Ac. I been watching some snowmobile videos on YT seem like there a lot of 4-stroke snowmobiles in Canada 🍁 🍁for some reason . in US I have few friends owned a 2019 an 2021 and there are 2-stroke
@@funtyes1970 the rx1 I just sold was my favorite.. got 21 mpg.. 1/4 throttle and cruise 80 mph.. your seeing a lot in Canada because of fuel and oil consumption is less.
@@nunyabiz8708 oh I see ..i was wondering ..where I live I don't see many 4-stroke snowmobiles even brand new sleds . here they still buying 2-stroke snowmobiles . I was told from my friends they said they like 2-stroke snowmobiles cuz they do a lot of mountain riding . I'm sure 4-strokes are great snowmobiles . see I was in my 20's in 90's and pretty much everything was 2-stroke unless you buying a 4x4 four wheeler
