My Blog: Saturday, December 15, 2007

Well Project ZRT was coming along good and earlier this year I thought it was done for a while but NO! I have rebuilt everything on the sled so far except the motor and of coarse now that I got all the bugs worked out of it the last thing that could possibly need to be rebuilt takes an atomic shi*t! I was riding it to school the other day and I had just put in new spark plugs that morning. The sled was running decent that morning and then about a mile down the road I puter to the boards and about 200ft later she started missing on one cylinder really bad but would occasionally fire on it. So I limped it in to school another 3 miles down the road got there and pulled the plugs thinking maybe a bad plug. But when I pulled the plug on the PTO side it had 0 gap it was smashed flat. So I thought ok well I have to get it home so I went to napa 3 blocks away and got a set of new plugs and re gaped the one that got smashed. So I put the old plugs back in and started riding home and the confusing thing was it ran A ok but then about a mile down the road it started missing again and acting if it had no power so I put the new plugs in but none of the old ones were smashed again. So now with new plugs in it ran good again for about 500ft then started acting up but occasionally it would run flawless again. so I got home and did a compression test and the center and right cylinder had 125psi  and the PTO side had 93-98. So I tore it down and found that the piston skirt on the front side of the piston on the Pto side was gone a whole 2"x1" piece was missing so that explained my smashed spark plug. So now I am stuck rebuilding the top end New Wiseco pistons, rings, cir clips, pins, and gasket set are $395 then add another used cylinder on that is another $100. Ok so thats a total of $495 yeah I can handle that. But no when I tore down the other two cylinders the dumb ass that had it before me tried to hone those two out way to far and the nicacill coating is starting to wear through so now I am stuck buying not only 1 but 3 new cylinders now my cost is up to not $495 but $695 and that is the story on how the ZRT blew up and cost me a shi*t load of money that I don't have. But the thing that really makes me mad is the ZRT was the replacement for my ZR when it blew up and I thought $700 is way to much to rebuild it so I scraped it out and got my ZRT and now I am back in the same spot I started 2 years ago.  I am looking for a crashed 1998-2000 ZR or ZL Preferably a 600 or a 700 but anything els works to. IF YOU NEED ANY THING FOR A SLED IN THE MID 1980'S TO LATE 1990'S LET ME KNOW I HAVE A SMALL JUNK YARD OF ARCTIC CAT PARTS AND SOME KAWASAKI PARTS. I ALSO DO SNOWMOBILE REPAIR AND MODIFICATION

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Published by Klide: 7:49 AM Updated On: 3/8/2008 at 8:33 PM