Installed those steel centered plug wires last night. Stopped off to a local snowmobile shop justa wonderin, and sure enough, they had that copper center wire. Not a big role , maybe 10 feet , so I split it with him and bought 5 feet of it. He says he always keeps it on hand because the older sleds run better on that and champion plugs. Who knew?
Today is tank cleaning day, my orange tank that I thought had some fuel left in it wasn't what I thought. Though all the rest of my machines sat under water in last years flood, this was the only one that took on muddy water on the inside of the tank. poured out the goo and did an initial clean out last night with simple green first to break up the gas/mud mix, toilet bowl cleaner for a half hour , then rinsed it out with boiling water and a hair dryer hoping to dry it out faster and not flash. Wasn't completely satisfied, so today I loaded it up with vinegar, and I'll do the boiling water rinse, dry it and put in some fuel and fuel line dryer and maybe some Seafoam for good measure.
Okay so I'm back from the barn, The orange tank looks alright, the outside of it took a beating even though I tried to keep the acids and rust off it, was very stained and wouldn't come off with soapy water, so I hit it with Mother's mag wheel cleaner and polish, rubbed the hell out of it, and now it looks better than when I started. While waiting on the tank, I decided to clean up the rear of the machine a bit.Cut a couple inches off that rear fender, installed a smaller tail light and found some signal mount from the front of a parts 550 that would transfer to the rear if I remove the fender mount bolts and drill it out. Looks a little cleaner and not so heavy now. pics tomorrow.
