New to snowmobiles, tips?

[fullrut]

If at all possible don't run ethanol based fuel. If you have to , make sure you use ethanol stabilizer and seafoam in the last batch of fuel you use in the late winter. You cannot imagine how bad things go when you don't. I have been working on several sleds the past couple weeks for a guy. Hadn't ran them in a couple years due to no snow. Had to replace jets that weren't able to be cleaned. Fuel pumps that needed to be rebuilt. One had the intake hose in the fuel tank get eaten up. Here's a first too. One had such dry rot from the fuel that the intake boots between the carb and reed blocks literally fell apart. The crap is extremely nasty, especially on older sleds that don't have compatible fuel systems for ethanol

I've dealt with some of the same issues. I put this in everything I have except daily drivers.


http://www.starbrite.com/item/star-tron-gasoline-additive?category_id=586

 

[guywhofishes]

Anybody use ice scratchers?

Yes. Flexible cable style is best. Reverse doesn't f them up like stiff wire versions... of which I've destroyed two sets.