This happened during all 3 speed runs after riding for several mile so the pipe should have been nice and warm. Clutches where just cleaned at it was a new belt as I toasted the previous one the day before.
The track is pretty loose but I don't think it would be loose enough to skip. Now that its been mentioned I never did check the rpms out, next trip out I'll mark the clutches and keep an I on the rpms. Like Rick said this would tell alot.
My exhaust valves where cleaned at the start of the season but could they have any affect in this area?
My flux capasitor must not be working, isn't it 88mph and you get blasted back to the future :tongue:[/b]
Hay Jason, I thought of somthing that might help but I did'nt see your oppsy. By any chance is your damage bad enongh to shift anything under the hood in the motor mount area?Somthing tweaked?(clutch aligiment?). Another thing after I been thinking of this...With you running a big lug track it could just be slipping (breaking loose). You need to fill the lugs up w/ snow and have some base left for the tips of the lug to bite. What could be happening is your not fillin the lug up enough for it to bite and it breaks lose and then grabs giving you the feel of boost forward. This would show in the R'S too due to the tourqe resistance in CVT system. I did feel this a little when I was running last wk too . BUT you have a 1/4 more lug lower gearing than me and thats all it would take to make it stand out more than others. Think of it as a tire out of balance, the bigger& faster the more its noticed.
WITH these paddle tracks I noticed something about them after being on a studded low lug track. If your not filling the whole lug up so it scoops or getting a good bite with the tips in good snowpack NOT ICEY PACK, your just running on the tips(less grip, less surface contact ,SPINNING). ROAD crossings...sugar snow... icey hardpack, IT makes sense If your not getting full lug fill or good tip bite to drive you forward and are in a condition of inbetween the two (grab slip ,grab)... this is what we were riding on last wk. I felt this on the trail too , spin out the loose stuff down to the ice and then get a bite on some good base and grab.
Low gearing has a spot in this too... at high speed and low gears your tourqe to the track is higher(more addgressive, ie, stuckin 2nd wanting to go to 3rd gear ) then stock or a high gear ratio. With any gear change your shiftting/backshifting is changed to a point at high speed . With a low gear your always pulling and will take more of a load to make it backshift . UN like a high gear that will sense the lightest load change to keep you closer to O/D.
I really think if you pay attention to your R'S you will see. One of the tricks I learned on clutching and stuff is.. Go out and run a hardpack trail at high speed and dump off in the powder with NO throttle change , your R'S should move a bit and climb right back up to show your backshifting for the load change. A lower gear will take more load to change the R's.
This could be something simple as a adjustment to your clutching or it was just the conditions we had up there. I know ..another book :blush: , but I wanted to explain my reasoning, hope it shed some light on things, it sounds good anyhow :thumbsup:
OH the flux capasitior is set for 88mph for a 2500lbs car , so for our sleds you need to re-adjust for the wt ratio, works out around 68-73 mph for avg sled and rider :wink:
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