Your Pre-Season Checklist

[gary_in_neenah]

Here's hoping for an epic winter for snowmobiling and we certainly deserve one after last year. With a 4 Stroke in the garage, my preseason maintenance is at a minimum. I believe there's only 2 or 3 grease zerts on the entire sled and the battery's been on the maintainer all year. So yeah, pretty much gas and go.

One thing I encourage everyone to do is check your lug nuts on the trailer. I averted a near disaster last year when I found every lug was loose by a complete 360 turn to tighten. It only takes a few minutes and you can check the tire condition while you're down there. A quick check of the lights and wiring would be a good idea too.

What else do we have to add to the list?​

 

[mezz]

Check tire pressures and grease the wheel bearings.

 

[eagle1]

Haven't even thought about sled yet!
Been busy trying to put garage back together after finally getting it finished/remodeled. Although I did pull my snowblower out of trailer today after delivery mom n dad theirs. Ohh and finally put mower to bed today so maybe after Thanksgiving I'll pull sled in.

 

[pclark]

Check your chain case level, replace lube if necessary

 

[indy_500]

Been tearing sleds apart for nearly a month now. Never ends! Not 1 thing gets overlooked on my sleds and all of my families sleds that get dropped off.

 

[stinkstar]

Been tearing sleds apart for nearly a month now. Never ends! Not 1 thing gets overlooked on my sleds and all of my families sleds that get dropped off.

Can I drop my sled off???

 

[goofy600]

Can I drop my sled off???

I‘ll do one better and give him a room for a weekend if he comes up and goes through all mine

 

[mspease]

I grease all trailer wheel bearings and any zerks on the sled when I put it away in the spring. It gets all the moisture out of there so it doesn't sit in there all summer. In the fall it's just charge the battery and go.

 

[onlypolar4me]

Been tearing sleds apart for nearly a month now. Never ends! Not 1 thing gets overlooked on my sleds and all of my families sleds that get dropped off.

OH! to be young and that ambitious again!!

 

[indy_500]

OH! to be young and that ambitious again!!

Man I’m not sure if ambitious or unlucky is the right word LOL. Taken 3 skids out already, couple oil changes, heated visor kits on 3 different sleds which required A LOT of plastics to come off and they were on 3 different chassis skidoo’s so I couldn’t repeat the process on any of them. Got 1 more sled to go thru and I’m losing steam, and this one will probably require the most work.

 

[euphoric1]

Been tearing sleds apart for nearly a month now. Never ends! Not 1 thing gets overlooked on my sleds and all of my families sleds that get dropped off.

Agree to that thought process, I do the same when its winter I want to ride them, not work on them. A lot of break downs are a result of a simple problem that could have been remedied just by doing a little pm prior. Have weeded out some guys from our group over the years that only parked and rode every year and usually spent first day of riding fixing things.

 

[durphee]

I usually do most of my work but this year I took it to a guy who is an excellent mechanic and does maintenance on the side. I told him to give me the works and check everything. After last season I am taking no chance on breaking down, season is too short and I am going every chance I can get......and I am putting in a new kitchen on main floor and new bathroom in the bonus room above the garage so my time has been scheduled.

 

[onlypolar4me]

Man I’m not sure if ambitious or unlucky is the right word LOL. Taken 3 skids out already, couple oil changes, heated visor kits on 3 different sleds which required A LOT of plastics to come off and they were on 3 different chassis skidoo’s so I couldn’t repeat the process on any of them. Got 1 more sled to go thru and I’m losing steam, and this one will probably require the most work.

Keep up the good work!

 

[indy_500]

4th skid of the year I’ve pulled, and it’s flurrying out!

 

[Hoosier]

Been tearing sleds apart for nearly a month now. Never ends! Not 1 thing gets overlooked on my sleds and all of my families sleds that get dropped off.

I think we're all family here right?