Well it was the biggest powder day I've ever ridden today and we got out before anyone else. So I was breaking trail and getting the most snow in my face ever, then after a while I noticed my RPMs were dropping.

Well to keep it short, we have this very wet snow here that we call Cascade Concrete and today it kept getting sucked into my intake filter and clogging it up. Check out the pictures. Basically every time I got fully submerged, which was a lot today, the filter would get clogged up. It usually didn't affect me while it was happening but after I stopped and tried to wind it back up again, the sled just wouldn't get any power. The sled ran great the rest of the day as long as I kept scraping the snow out of the intake every once in a while, but it was annoying.

Are there any solutions for this?

You can try some Flow Rite intakes from SLP beside the tach/speedo. They also have the Flow Rites that go where your speedo is. Starting Line Products out of Utah I think. The micro filters that cover your stock filter may help but for me it seemed like they just made it a bit easier to wipe the snow off - they still seem to clog in some condtions.
Snowest.com may be a good source for answers too.

Get some snow dust filter material and make a sock for your foam. The good filter material repels snow.

Get some snow dust filter material and make a sock for your foam. The good filter material repels snow.[/b]

That is my first plan, I figured it would be quicker and cheaper. But where do I get the filter material? I think the intake will still plug sometimes because the actual intake holes in the hood can just completely pack up with snow, but this would be a lot better than the snow actually filling up the filter.

You can try some Flow Rite intakes from SLP beside the tach/speedo. They also have the Flow Rites that go where your speedo is. Starting Line Products out of Utah I think. The micro filters that cover your stock filter may help but for me it seemed like they just made it a bit easier to wipe the snow off - they still seem to clog in some condtions.
Snowest.com may be a good source for answers too.[/b]

I'll look into this, I trust SLP probably more than any other sled company, my pipes, intake, primary spring, secondary spring and helix are all SLP and their tech support is excellent so I highly recommend them. It seems like with how much snow was packing under my windshield yesterday any intake would get clogged but I'll definitely check it out. I'm realizing that at some point when you fully dunk the sled in powder over and over the snow is going to get in the intake. That wet stuff was just setting up and packing into an iceball, but that type of snow is pretty typical here.

Make sure you run some heet though your motor to.

You mentioned intake. Seems that I have more problems in deep snow since installing my SLP intake, I like the throttle response and power but if had to do over would leave the intake stock.

As Simon said, SLP sells 24" X 24" sheets of the material on their website.
Just make sure you don't double it up when fabricating the sleeve for your stock foam filter to slide into. Doubled up, it restricts the airflow too much.

Thanks for more great pics.

Jeff

for a really quick fix take some duct tape and put it on the inside of all but the top vents on the hood. a friend of mine does this a lot due to the same problem. my sled came with all the lower vents made so that you can loosen a wing nut and close them while the top vents are just hexagonal screens.