You are now the proud owner of the original anti-snow device. Owning one of these practically guarantees that it will never snow enough in your area to actually use this device again.

@mitchcoop1

Жыл бұрын

YUP Black cloud boy here... Bought a used JAG 440 in 2014...Fixed it up to relive my childhood..and Snow in Rochester, NY. Has been sh^* ever since .. specially when I am not working and can get time to ride.

@josephbrandt6778

Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha ain't that the truth I spent almost three years and hundreds of hours and a grand later restoring a 73 John Deere 440...I've rode it I think 4 times....🤣😂🤣😂👍 Central NY

@anicekid

6 ай бұрын

Bought one for this winter, its my first snowmobile, and we have not had enough snow yet, google photos keeps showing me pictures titled "one year ago today", and "2 years ago" and theres like 2 feet of snow and my buddies snowmobiles just in frame :(

@connorsvintageelectronics909

6 ай бұрын

I always see snowmobiles ripping down the trail in my field and i just recently got an old sled and its December 2nd and we have gotten barely an inch of snow

Haha that ending when the garage door opens. Gave me a good chuckle.

@dans_Learning_Curve

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely shows creativity!

@MrGattor33

3 жыл бұрын

Ahahahaha, same here!

@stevenplaskett7728

3 жыл бұрын

Soon as he said a few weeks I knew they storm had gone past ha ha

@JaimesonLaLone

3 жыл бұрын

clearly no one has seen grass drags before...

@hoofie2002

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed myself stupid when that happened. Nice joke👍

Lol He don't want to Let that Go at all to funny Matt 😂 0:50 @Diesel Creek

Good old Minwax Fuel You got there Matt Love the smell of Minwax 15:00 @Diesel Creek

Oh my. Brings back ton of memories. Buddy had the same sled. Many years later he bought a new artic cat Wild cat or thunder cat. It was like a 900 cc. Anyway he calls me up and we trailer both his new one and that one to Allegan Forest is S.W. Michigan. I bet we went 150 miles that day. But that old sled kicked my ass. Those leaf spring skies up front and virtually no suspension under it. My whole body ached for days after. But it was a lot of fun and that old sled never missed a lick that long day.

Extra points to Diesel Creek for getting a snowmobile that matches his undies :D

She so close she just wants to run Heck yeah Nice and loud Sounds good Matt even on 1 cylinder 21:00 @Diesel Creek

Anyone else smile when she started up?

It looks like the first ignition coil measured 17 megaohms, which is pretty much open circuit. The second coil measured 6 kiloohms which is about right. When diagnosing stuff, make sure you take notice of the units on the right of the display.

"Up here in the north" sounds funny when I'm watching from Canada. I was wondering how all the under guts were. That 340 is worth more than 5 gallons of diesel. I've been playing with vintage sleds for .....well.....since they weren't vintage. There's a lot more to them than if they run.

@tmotorman

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm "up North" I always figured. Being on top of NY state, but you guys got us beat! (got friends in Kemptville, Brockville, Kingston and Napanee, Ontario!)

2 stroke snowmobile exhaust never gets old...

Wouldn't waste my time on anything till I heard it run!

I was waiting for him to say in the intro "well look what the cat dragged in"

I can just hear Derek from vgg sayjng... there's a 51.2%percent chance it will run... probably not!

@Dutchamp

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha he's very much being nuts but fun to watch his estimations in %

It's a shame you couldn't rock that sweet Cheetah seat at the snow park; You'da been STYLIN !

Compression for days Matt 4:00 @Diesel Creek

Id say no to the drift trike because you're not a 15 yr old hipster, my vote is an offroad go-kart

@jonnyonwheels

3 жыл бұрын

I would have to agree, +1 on the offroad go-kart.....and his yard/property doesn’t exactly strike me as prime real-estate for a drift trike rip either?!

@MRI520guy

3 жыл бұрын

Plus the go cart can be fun in light snow.

When you pull a line off like that give it a " yah!" Like Derek at vice grip garage LMAO

Accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory- Patton

It makes for a good KZread video, even if you know it's not going to run. We don't know that. You still making some money.😎💯

You’re the “King” of tinkering! Never doubted you for a minute.

Those Kawasaki engines (340 and 440) back then had points under the flywheel. Make sure you clean them up and set the gap. I had a 440 shoved into a Lynx and it would launch with the skis in the air for a few hundred feet. Those old sleds are light and fun to ride…and roll super easy;)

@marshallcurran1722

Жыл бұрын

I have a spirit 500 in my lynx

Yes sir go ahead and use it for something special Philip

Drift trike: All year. Unless its snowing. Heck. Maybe even in the snow. Snow mobile: Snow only. A custom drift trike made up with that engine would be a cool thing to see.

I don’t love the smell of varnished up fuel... I could almost smell that thru the screen. What I do love is the smell of 2 Stroke. I love it so much I got a Klotz racing oil scented candle at the snowmobile show a few years ago. Makes my garage smell of one of the best smelling 2 stroke oils on the planet. 😎

@thor942

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not even sure if you’re joking or not with the candle, but that’s a great idea.

@seastacker8582

3 жыл бұрын

@@thor942 Not kidding. I didn’t pay this much, but it’s very real 😎 Klotz Candle Famous Estorlin "Smell The Klotz" www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXSC7MU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_AHRMTE8S1YZ4AZ642E8G

@BassickS77

3 жыл бұрын

He’s not joking I have a diesel scented candle my buddy gave me as a joke it smells like raw fuel before then burnt fuel wheel kit haha

@bobadam7021

3 жыл бұрын

:sigh: going back to Amazon to check for a two stroke scented candle.

@usernotfound-ue7ld

3 жыл бұрын

Klotz sucks. Shit will gum up lines and all. I used to live by klotz now I wouldn't waste my time pouring it in the trash. It did smell good but it don't burn worth a f**k

The ending was funny that’s how some of my projects go. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there.

The first time your vacuum got a big piece in the glovebox I immediately thought "he got the mouse"

yea, derek learns us all alot about a lot of things, guys a born teacher. where is my diesel creek hat, you could sell a shit load of them, they would be manly. meatball is my hero.

Brings back memories from my youth. Riding sleds from bar to bar, getting buried in snow drifts trying to jump. Tinkering with it all summer trying to get it to go faster. Never did

Build a go cart or a trike. For the summer time. Either way I'll be here watching whatever you put out.

Junkyard Digs did the exact same machine a year ago. Loved the door opening and the snow was gone.

My mom had a 440 eltigra Artic cat, my dad had a 440 Stearns, and I had a 440 nitro full....sure miss those times

Slap it into a gocart! That would be AWESOME!!

that fuel looks like a nicely aged Brandy lol

I’ve watched every one of your videos for the last year and a half. I’ve never seen this one.

There’s been so many snowmobile will it run videos lately I even went and made a video of my old snowmobile that’s been sitting in my back field for almost 30 years lol I posted it on my KZread channel just so I can get it off my phone and like a hundred people have watched it amazingly 🤣🤣🤣

Yank the motor out and put it in the junkyard golf cart. That would be pretty cool.

@IspiraGaming

3 жыл бұрын

This would be awesome. The perfect project

Awesome vlog ending had me in stitches spat my beer everywhere 😂🤣

I had a 1975 Cheetah with steel cleats. Rode it out to the Kantishna mining district from Nenana, Alaska. Put a lot of miles on her. Camped at -20 and woke up covered in sand. No snow could be seen for miles.

In the realm of fixer upper and handyman I think this is almost Red Green Show level

Love it, Cheetah, Panther, Leopard. I remember when these came out, they were the bomb. Polaris, TNT 440, Elan 250. There was even a cool tow behind sled that Ski Doo made. Lots of snow in 70's.

@anicekid

6 ай бұрын

The skiboose!

@Renville80

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget the little Kitty Cat!

Ahahahaaha that ending when the garage door opens and your face reaction gave me a good laugh! Great video as well, Thanks Matt!

we got a "Tired Iron" race every year. Seen some dinosaurs there. We used these for Ice fishing. Dad had an Alpine. I always was on the back of a "Fold-A-Sled"

Excellent sense of humour 👍

When you unscrew the plugs on a machine that has been sitting, pour down a bit of two stroke oil in the cylinder prior to turning the engine.

@frogjunk

2 жыл бұрын

Haha gotta scrape that carbon off some how

The ending was great. Id love to see a repower. Man screaming 8 thousand, 9 thousand rpms. I love 2 strokes.

@SuperBigdanno

2 жыл бұрын

6500 rpm for that motor max

I love not knowing whether there will be success or not. He'll put it up either way.

That's a panther, I had one just like it about 25 years ago I miss it terribly.

Ahhhhhhh...I was just gonna ask about Christine after seeing her pretty yellow motor still on the stand. Teaser there at the end :-)

🤣🤣 the ending was golden!!! Great job, love the vids

Diesel Creek please don’t inform me I missed part of your show because your camera operator was sleeping on the job again because I would have never known that I missed it, somehow you magically make it appear.

Ahh, the old cigar box junk box. No great shop is complete without one.

"She's a bit of a fixer-upper" ummm yea, you don't buy anything that isn't lol fun to watch "will it run" videos

I love how you can take apart anything and then make it run. Good luck with this project.

Omg..love that look when ya opened the garage

Junkyard digs just did a revival of the same sled, but his had the rotary in it. His leapord print was nicer condition though 😂. He had to replace the drive sprockets/dogs or whatever you call them lol. He found new ones, so you might reach out to him for info 🤷‍♂️

funny at 14:44 when you moved the camera close to the fuel tank my nose automatically closed i guess i didn't want to smell that old fuel lol

Reach out to Golden Rust Or Bust. He’ll know where to get the parts I think

@arnoldhillbillygrizzlyputm1493

3 жыл бұрын

Him an kevin at junkyard digs just did excat same cat thou a yr older . He should know where to get the rear cogs as they just did them on it .

Bill’s Marine Service at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. I love here and used to work there. They sold Arctic Cat for decades. Worth a shot!

Always a great surprise junk start. Should call you channel Junk Start Garage. 👍

dammit I knew it was coming but I still had a good laugh about it.

That my friend is a panther cause the tanks in the back

@vaniadelfin9261

3 жыл бұрын

Jijii

My vote is for re-powering something, but not something normal. Make a 2-cycle winch, or a snowmobile-engine-powered chainsaw or sawmill or something! Making the chainsaw would require some sort of air or spring assist to manage the weight. That could be fun!

About time you get a snowmobile👍👍Great Video

At one point in my life I worked on Arctic Cats, and swapping those drive sprockets is a major pain in the butt. The under carriage, track, and drive shaft gave to come out which includes the chain case and chain, lower chain sprocket and both lower bearings. We would call in sick if we had one to fix.😊😊

@normsebby3421

2 жыл бұрын

I have completely rebuilt tracks and clutches for 30 years....fun and patients go well...

Is it just me? I just love getting run over at the start of every video!

Ending was hilarious 🤣

The bull dog reminds me of when I was a kid many many years ago. On my paper route this bull dog would run out and bite onto the front tire of my bike, and wouldn't let go. The kid that owned him ran out and grab him by the hind legs, and started pulling him as hard as he could. After about five minutes he was able to pull the dog free. After that when I would go past that house, I would speed up and go by on the other side of the street.

I hope you fix the sled up and wait till the next snow. To me she’s a keeper. If I lived closer I would be seriously bugging you to sell it as is!

@marcryvon

3 жыл бұрын

Well, make him an offer ! This is a useless money pit, man !

I rode snowmobiles back in that time period. Drive them on the weekends and do maintenance repairs all week. Then repeat!

Wow! a Cheetah, my dad bought a new cheetah in 71-72. along with a kitty kat, when i was little, we lived in Alaska and someone stole them both about 1974, the police never did anything, we never got them back. who knows, perhaps you ended up with our old sled 😂 cool find.

Well Matt, now that you have an old snowmobile you will have something to do all winter long. My experience with old sleds is about a 1/1 split on riding and fixing. Good luck 🤞

I remember those old Cat's, the engines would flood out constantly, that's why they carried so many spark plugs, you'd be changing them all day. You never went very far since they were always breaking down.

@alcopower5710

3 жыл бұрын

Properly tuned they ran fine. My Dad bought an old Puma and Panther that was 70-72 when I was young. My brother and I would ride them everyday. I remember the Panther was sometimes hard to start but once started it ran well. Never left us stranded.

@tmotorman

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcopower5710 That's right! My dad brought home this same model and year Panther in late 71 with a Lynx and Sno Jet to go with it. Never had a problem with any of them. Don't know what "he's" driving but we never had a problem with ours. (we kept them tuned up also) Most I had to do to the Panther was replace the clutch after about 4 or 5 years because we rode it so much! Put a Duster on and she rode like crazy then!

@tmotorman

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcopower5710 BTW- You must be a train buff? (Alco Power!)

@alcopower5710

3 жыл бұрын

@@tmotorman ......yeah loved trains my whole life. Have a little KZread channel mostly about rail fanning.

Those tillsons are so easy and forgiving

Derek did one this old too. Got his running for his boys to use

Love it thanks showing that old rusty things can come back to life.

I could watch these videos all day, thanks for the awesome content!

@64marine

2 жыл бұрын

I watched a batch of 7 in a row last week; am I an addict now? lol.

Matt is very thorough

Old Arctic cats, start getting finicky at -10 C ! And the warmer gets the more you will "heat seize "the Pistons , to the piston sleeves!

Matt's pretty good with the carb reconditioning, seems to enjoy that

I remember tgose, fun as heck too. also. MEATBALL!

That seat is the best part

In 1973 a local boat/outdoor equipment dealer named Anchor Marine (Baton Rouge La) sold an off road bike called a Tri-Sport. I had one. Engine choices were an 8hp Briggs or the 340 snowmobile engine like yours. It had 3 wheels, 2 large wide spaced tires in the rear with a disc brake and a long springer fork in the front with a motorcycle type handlebar. Mine had the 2 stroke 340 engine, with the variable pitch belt drive connected to a lawnmower type axle with a u-joint on each end, coil over shocks, making it an independent rear end. Driving it was a trip. It's hard to describe the feeling. At the time I was about 175 lbs and it would fry the tires with me on it. Top speed??? I chickened out at 80 mph. Had a friend follow me on a quiet road to clock my speed. There was no speedometer. Fun bike, but be careful if you build one.

Needle screw starting points: Low end 1 turn out, Hi end 2 1/2 turns out. The back (left) cylinder can burn up easily if the fan belt breaks or the carb is too lean.

@horstszibulski19

3 жыл бұрын

Yes the back one is far from the fan, gets less air and if there is any obstruction, it will be worse...like the legendary cyl #3 at aircooled VW boxers, according to Mustie1... :-D

Was just thinking that'd make an awesome donor engine for another build! Seems to run darn good, and *still* a good deal for the price, even if it's in a scrap sled right now!

Ending had me in stitches

I worked for Motorola for 13 years and the last 7 years I had a company owned snow mobile. I worked in Central PA around Harrisburg.

Check out off-grid with the skinners. He has an EXTENSIVE collection of parts.

I rode one of those new in my younger days when I was doing a lot of riding, nice machine

any video that starts with that much meatball has to be good!

Hey Matt those cheetah seats sure are pimpin 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Saw her in the garage in a previous video and was wondering when the video was comin out lol

She sounds great and I can’t wait to see what you have in store next.Excellent work and thanks for the awesome content stay safe and take care

"Meatball"!!! I love him!!!

Hi Matt, some people are just so blessed with being able to find good old junk. I'm telling you I wished I would have had the five gallons of diesel and knew the guy that you knew oh, that would have been a great project for me as I grew up in the South and raised my kids in Texas I've never been on a snowmobile and damn sure never owned one but I would like to do both. And then on top of everything else all the switches function except for maybe one wow and you know you could always get rid of that diaphragm crap and get a cheap Chinese carburetor that would work 10 times better on that, hell you might even be able to adjust it so it would run halfway decent??? You have the touch to to making things go pretty well most of the time. Hardy har. Anyway Matt I wish you well always buddy oh, and I usually enjoy all your videos. Keep up the great work you're probably going to be one of the channels I don't delete.

Another great one, thank you for my the daily dose of happiness!

Well that was a fun little job even if you didn't have a chance to get out and rip on it. BTW: I'm pretty sure that the Cheetah print seat adds about 4.7362 HP to that machine!

Gotta love 71 ;). Was born in 71.

I'm from Germany and I like your videos very much. You do cool stuff! That thing sounds like an old east-german car, like the "Trabant". It also has a 2 stroke engine, 600ccm and brutally 26HP. Less power gets replaced by insanity ;-)

I can't look at that seat without thinking of leopard print undies!

@bluegrallis

3 жыл бұрын

Yours or hers? 🤣🤣🤣

@Mikeattempts

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluegrallis We have matching thongs. ;)

@thor942

3 жыл бұрын

I’m with you brother, there’s just something about leopard print.

@tdtvkc1

3 жыл бұрын

And that's a bad thing!!!

@bobadam7021

3 жыл бұрын

That scene from road trip. “What’ed you do, skin a cheetah?!?”