MOPED ARMY

I have a 70 panther also. She is in sad shape now.

Fabricate some brackets to move the skis outward a couple inches , it'll be so much more stable

Snowmobiles are about the only thing I miss from living in the north.....

good stuff, love em.. the old cats with 17" wide track are a bit more stable than the competition. used to have a moto ski zephyr, interesting; but liked to tip over constantly. notable machines I also have are a 1970 sno jet thunderjet 634 hirth, and a 20 original mile 73 lynx. cant get enough of any old 2 strokes. we finally have settled at a place with many acres to ride on, been 8 years since riding, one of the perks of "growing up", and getting the a&p license.

good point on reliability, or lack of. as a kid I had 1 running arctic cat 292 engine and 6 lynx chassis, spent hundreds of hours swapping used parts back and forth to keep 1 going. back then I was so poor, I would pull steel rivets by hand, and reuse bearings.. pretty sure tractor had more miles on it towing it back.

does anyone go to the fulton ny eastern whiteout?

Hirth or JLO?

Front drive sprockets will need replacement, as they WILL shatter...

So many old cats up here for 50 a sled.

Kinda getting that way here unless you live in the frozen north. Yeah when I was big into it the old stuff was hard to get at a good price. Now I see parts sleds for $20 to $100. Mostly cats because they are all aluminium. Most of the old skidoos have done rotted away. I would like to get my hands on an old snow traveler with rear engine. Be nice to toss a modern fourstroke engine on one and just through the trails. A few years ago I thought I was gonna get back into it and picked up three elan projects but decided I didn't have the time and sold them.

We had a MotoSki Cadet as our farm sled

Finally had enough snow hit the ground on sunday to go for a rip around the back yard on the old Colt.

Hopefully get some more soon and get the trails open, i'm jonesin'... late january and only a couple inches on the ground. Miserable.

Nice, yeah, the pantera was a good deal but it has been sitting so I've been going through it. Finally thought I had it dialed in last week, estart working, everything, rode around the yard running great, pulled it back in to check coolant and stuff, huge cracks in the intake boots... EFI 'carb'was hanging off by a thread.... Definitely would have melted it down if I had kept riding.

Boots came in earlier this week but haven't been able to get to them.

I'm just looking forward to not having it load up and foul plugs when it's warm, the new stuff is crazy high tech, I don't really want to invest used car money into my snowmobile program.

This is the back side of the chain case. Fixed piston would be at 9 o clock looking straight on. Kinda clever design to kill a lot of birds with one stone but poorly executed.

This is the engine, how can you not love this, it's basically a 340cc dual av7 with a CVT. Free air cooled even, peak of Fuji heavy industries small engine tech in 1974. I think it does about 20-25 hp. Which is plenty in this 250# machine with like 2" suspension travel

Forgot the pic...

Also I'm definitely kidding... The scary thing is that this was actually running pretty ok. The efi compensated for the air leak but it wouldn't have lasted long on the trail.

Also found a big ol mice nest in the air box... I checked right away before starting it but it was trapped behind a secret panel go figure. Who knows how much mouse poop this thing ate. Piston skirts through the intake ports looking pretty good so 🤞🤞

It truly is just like mopeds in the snow. One of the all time best topics in O.T.

Woah yeah that's rad, 634 that's a big dude. Was over at a friend's house last weekend checking out some hirth... They definitely remind you of a puch or Sachs engineering wise. I like the big cast shrouds and everything, feels very old school. Old dolmar chainsaws kinda the same.

He's got a 69 evinrude that I'm gonna buy once I get some projects out of the way here. Talk about weird, designed by outboard engineers, totally different animal, opposed twin -that's why I want it... I've just got a huge boner for 2t opposed twin for some reason!

Didn't make much progress on the colt today, I procrastinated all morning making cookies and doing crafts with the kids, then had to do some plumbing, then cleaned up some frozen/drifted snow, put the new belt on my ariens single stage, and spent way too much time looking for this stupid little wire clip that holds the headlight in.... Finally found it and installed the new led headlight.

Some brands lend themselves well to the ski spreaders, my colt is a little more complicated than that but I do plan on doing it eventually.

Its a good way to get into it, have a rider that is rough and just fix it up a little as you go. I'm going to do a vintage ride on Saturday in below zero temps on the old girl. Gotta get everything dialed in