FORGOTTEN 1970 Evinrude Skeeter Snowmobile - Will It Run? Part 1

hey welcome to vice grip garage i picked up this 1970 evinrude skeeter snowmobile for 350. looks like it hasn't run since 2005. so i'm just going to get her fired up and tooling around again which is a pretty bold statement considering i've never even owned an evinrude snow machine and i know nothing about them that's that's fine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] well fn curiosity is just biting on you right now the reason i picked this machine up here is i've got three boys and as much as i hate to admit it they're just growing like a patch of wild clover dang it i've got two other classic yamahu machines i mean they don't run either but that's a story for another day but anyway eventually they're going to say that's not fair i need my own and there's no way i'm going to go mortgage some new pile of plastic that looks like an alien designed it my kids are going to learn patience and perseverance just like i did but being stranded in some stubble field 20 below pulling on that rope hoping it starts so they can survive so i found this here machine on the interwebs and bought it site on scene and picked it up just a couple days ago again i've never worked on an evinrude other than an outboard boat motor those seem fairly straightforward but we'll just kind of gander around this unit see what we got drink it in and we're gonna have to just tear into it and see if we get this thing fired up well first things first let's get into the stickers on this we've got a minnesota department of natural resources from 96 but we've got another tag up here from o5 so one can assume that she's been sitting off the trail for 15 years maybe she's been started since then my guess is someone let it sit from 96 and then they fired her back up in 05 and that was pretty much that but we'll go around here and cover the basics look at this thing that is majestic i mean you can't beat the styling of 70s and 80s snow machines early 80s not late of course everybody knows that evinrude means angry sailboat and down here it says 25 if you look quickly you might think that says 125 but that's wrong 25 stands for 25 horsepower we'll get to that here in a little bit we got some really cool controls compression release this is a big boy now we're playing with show you in a minute you need this to start it over here you've got the warm-up control which is a super fancy way to say this is the choke primer mandatory neutral lockout we'll get to that in a little bit and then this is where the reverse lever would be so we'll talk about that right now this is what you call a i think it's an e 1500 is a model number and what that means is the track is 15 and a half inches wide then they had what everybody calls the wide track which is the 2000 and then they had a 2005 model which i believe the only difference literally was the 2005 had the electrotronic starts which this one doesn't see it just it doesn't do anything even though it says start what's weird about that is the length and overall width of the machine does not change from the 1500 to the 2000 series so that's that's pretty interesting the reason i bought this is the engine it's really unique well get there just wait patience right i got to show you something even cooler look at this pipe what is this you ask what's this doing how come it's why is it back here these pipe fittings i'm not sure but wait is it on this side too yep it is all the way up look at that someone took the exhaust made custom duals well it's technically two under one and she comes back here and then dumps right there so she's got custom exhaust that comes out back here when these are cold and that exhaust dumps up here plus the this is a two-stroke lots of smoke you know right under the long wind bags looks like a long drawn silver seat you know she's filleted open a little bit but i'll show you how to fix this for about three bucks oh look at that it comes right back around no one will even notice that got the original hand grips i mean it's in pretty decent shape overall i did look at the track a little bit when i first brought this to the shop so i'll show you that video clip right now that seems to be i mean it's worn but it's not tearing or ripping all the bogeys seem to be fairly decent track might need an adjustment but that's not a big deal or out of the norm inside lugs aren't ripped off a little bit of a tear there it's best just to get those off on there too so this side is chunking a little bit so we might have to take a look at that up there and see what's going on and then there's a closer look at this exhaust that's pretty unique both sides it's run like that and it dumps out in the back here now we'll get to the actual reason i bought this here fine specimen and that's the engine itself and i am admittedly an arctic cat or a yamahu guy growing up my grandpappy used to sell arctic cats at least that's what i was told before i was even born and growing up on the farm there was just kitty cats every the lt grays and the panthers and whatever else the first machine my dad bought me when i was way too small to ride a 440 was an articat and my brother used to come out and save me 74 miles from home and shorts and pull start that thing for me thanks chris i just didn't have the horsepower to get that thing over anyway this is a 437 cc 7-1 compression opposed two-stroke two-cylinder engine how is your brain now because mine's going let's get this hood open and dig into this thing oh the latches are already ready to rip by the way don't go spend 150 on snowmobile dollies and all that stuff just go get a 20 furniture mover from harbor freight and this works just fine here we go look at this thing right here does that belong in an airplane wrong it belongs in the snow machine i just can't believe it and it looks to be in pretty good shape i did put about 17 gallons of engine degreaser in here but it came around pretty good but you can clearly see the opposed to cylinder spark plug there spark plug there single fuel make it happener here and everything looks to be in pretty good shape i did take the air cleaner off when i bought it i just wanted to make sure that all of this was functioning and looked fairly decent-ish ish and surprisingly looks really clean in there i don't know why but it does look at that they went on to build a lot of boats we got dual coils down here and of course the exhaust we talked about that and that really is the only thing changed on the sled that i can tell from you know the factory position but we'll kind of start looking into this thing we'll start with some engine components we'll get into the drive box and the belts and see if we can figure out apparently there's a sequence of operation so let's hook our peepers in a little bit closer here we'll start here with the pulley an assembly that's hooked right to the crankshaft of the engine here and this is basically your clutch unit your centrifugal clutch and this might be on some other sleds but i'm just not familiar with it because i'm an arctic guy and i haven't seen this it's a pretty neat feature and what this cable does if i pull it over here it's a neutral lockout so this just to press this pin in the spring and now you can idle it and free rev it and it's not going to engage this belt and this is hooked directly to the sled so if i roll this the sled will actually move see there you go so you can warm it up this way and then you can pop it out of the neutral lock and now this clutch will move and the belt will walk up and you can actually move this out this pulley is hooked to a chain here in this case this belt based on the owner's manual i know is from 1991 and that looks to be wrapped in like a kidsled maybe some kind but here on the 1500 model there's a chain in here and it's enclosed on the wide track or the 2000 or 2005 model the chain is actually exposed and you can see the idler pulley and all that this is the adjusting wheel so you run this forward back these nuts out and then spin this here counterclockwise and that will tighten the chain tension you just tighten it finger tight and lock this back down we'll be sure to check that these drive pulleys are definitely going to need to be cleaned up we'll run a cheek poker on that when they're rusted and pitted like this you're going to get a lot of slip and a lot of folks will say i don't have any power the sled just doesn't have any guts and a lot of that is belt slip actually and this is a napa so this has been replaced several times at least but everything is here it's put together the brake pads look decent this is a disc brake style this is significantly loose [Music] see the movement there but the good news is this is super easy to adjust and i could tell no one's done it all you do is pull this cotter key out run this castle nut down until there's friction here on the pulley which is completely nothing back it off a quarter turn or to the nearest pinhole run this pin back in then you can use this to adjust the brake handle up here and it looks like what they've been doing and i know for a fact that from the factory this nut is usually way up here and look at this spring it's just completely collapsed so what they've been doing is they've been trying to make all of the adjustment up here instead of actually adjusting it here well if you've been watching the channel a while you know that one of the biggest things that drives me to save all these classics whether it's a car truck boat motorcycle snow machine is all the history behind it and the stories that they could tell i mean if only they could have a voice blake shelton bad music good host anyway this particular machine came with the original owner's manual and in it you could tell it's an old-timer's writing because they just had better penmanship back in the day there's just a ton of notes almost on every single page in here which is really cool and digging through this i could see that he's had some starting problems clogged vent mixture was too lame bad plugs air leak somewhere question mark uh had a primer bulb issue he changed the fuel mixture to 50 to one we'll talk about that in a bit not really liking that too much and then there's some notes on this page about the sparklaters in 86 so 16 years after he owned it he changed it from a j plug to a jnc which is a champion model and looks like in 1991 i think i replaced the plugs okay that was probably the last time but there's a lot of good information on here mainly chain drive track maintenance things like that so i'm going to use this to kind of follow along and this has a lot of pictures in it which is great because i read bottom to top right to left and pitchers just help a guy out so i think where our guy is going to start is right on the fuel tank there's a little bit of fuel in there it smells really bad which i'm used to but two strokes are really particular with fuel and fuel mixture and going back to earlier there were some handwritten notes in there it was like 50 to one question mark or 40 to one but the manual and right on the tank says 24 to 1 mixture is absolutely needed my guess is they were fouling plugs and thought it was too heavy oil in the fuel mixture and they ended up changing the plugs i think it was a 91 we just said i can't remember anyway i think they were chasing a problem and the issue was actually the plugs and not the fuel my hope is they didn't wear out this engine in the rings by running it too lean of oil because in a two-stroke your oil and the fuel is actually what lubricates the piston and rings of the top end of the engine so let's get that off clean it out see what's in it see if we can see any oil in it fingers crossed by the way this is really really unheard of if you're into snow machines especially vintage snow machines i am legitimately the third owner and as a 1970 that's mind-blowing usually someone pays it off in three years and then they sell it and then every season thereafter or every two seasons it goes to a new owner so when you buy a snowmobile it's really common that it's had 15 16 17 owners so tracking the history and the maintenance of it is really near impossible but this machine there was a guy before me had it for a couple years and that was basically it and then there was the original owner so that's pretty nifty my eyeballs are telling me bolt bolt bolt i'm sure it's the same on the other side it is and then we've got obviously the fuel line on the inside but i think we can pull the tank back and then disconnect that the winterizing procedure in the manual actually tells you to remove this tank every single year and empty it out this seat's brand new but i think i'm going to take that off as well and that'll make sliding this tank back easier plus i might i mean because i might be getting carried away but maybe we shine on all this you know with the whirlyboo and some sort of cream and with the seed off that'll be a lot easier so i'll grab some ranches and get to this thing oh it does have a little drainer room there and she does have some newer rtv so my guess is looking at this they've just been draining it here which is not adequate because look at how high this is relative to the bottom of the tank so we could have a lot of crud in here it's hard to say it's too bad about this the rest of the machine is pretty good but obviously i couldn't buy it without some sort of rust my youngest bentley's with today he learned we had the snow machine and he would not stay home he had to come with and help so i got him taking the fuel tank off here and i'm gonna go find a socket that'll fit that fuel line way back in there because the guy's just not gonna be able to fit a brew driver back in there and i think we'll take the fuel make it happener off as well this might be a bendix carb not quite sure but we should probably take that and clean it up and maybe even look at the diaphragm in here make sure that's all good and over lunch i'm going to try to pick up some new fuel lines too these are just rock solid and they're not going to be fun getting on or off and you can always tell when they get this yellow orange color it's time to replace them these are supposed to be clear so i'll probably do that as well i think i have some of this little quarter inch line the rubber from the snow machine yet if a guy's looking for a snow machine just look for the ones that say don't run or not running or this and that just like any small engine 99 chance it's going to be fuel related and folks just get so worked up about taking these we'll make it happen apart and they're really not difficult at all so take a gamble go pick one up grab a carb kit and just get into it i don't even have a carb kit for this one we're just going to try to do some surgery on it save on the gaskets if we can then if i have to i'll just let this sit in pieces for two weeks while i wait to find a carp kit for it that seems to make sense okay the thing is off whatever that did what's next not sure there's a bolt there okay and then over here i got three more bolts and then this guy should come out um always make sure your vents are working on see this one was closed always make sure your vents are working when you're running this kind of fuel pump if it's not venting properly you're not going to suck a late fuel very good how you coming bud good i'm on my last boat well you got three more over here still remember oh yeah you have to switch sides he busted out his tool kit here you know he's throwing his own collection got some safety goggles you got scissors even yeah oh my goodness nice high quality set of sockets there all right get that out of there oh we got some weight reduction oh it's not too bad yeah it is a couple holes well now i know this was meant to be she's got some weight reduction on her some of this is just starting and then there's pinholes we got a couple holes back here so i'm probably going to take the cheek poker and the retina runner and just kind of clean this up a little bit and i'm going to have to try to save on it because once these tunnels go the sled's pretty much shot i have rebuilt one of these but it takes measuring and angles and diagramical engineering and basically it's a whole lot of work so i'm just going to try to save on it a little bit if i can get this tank slid back i got easier access to this right there so i'm seeing a lot of this copper wire hold down fuel lines in here and i like it definitely could have drank beer with the previous owner go ahead and get this off bentley shake her around a little there's some juice in there we can use that to our advantage a lot better shape under this which is good even had the original rubber seal over here missing over here that's okay now i can pull this whole fuel line out which will have a little filter in it and have a line should have a line to the primer as well which is this guy right here this hole the 2005 e's not only did they have the electrotronic digital start but i think there was a lever here for uh reavers actually because they were a little bit heavier of course more wire perfect got the fuel line out and this was kind of like this to the tank and then this came up here to what we'll refer to as the pump filter in it will definitely replace it i can't even see through that thing and then this right here is a fitting that goes up to the primer and that's this line here and basically what you're doing is you're drawing fuel from the tank and then you're snipping it into the intake directly over here and that's for your cold starts and then you can use what they call the warm-up control like that which you should fire off or just jam two cans of huff and gas down the intake here and that should fire it off so we got that out of the way i think i bent this that's fine more wire that's good so now we'll get all this kind of off and pretty much everything i'm touching in here is more brittle than betty white's back so we got to be a little careful but not much we'll get it out and then we got some cable laters and some other stuff we're going gonna have to really pay attention how all that goes in there because i just get in a hurry and start snipping and then putting her back in i just i can't know [Music] so it's a guy who doesn't have a plan that's weird i think i'm going to change up the processes here i'm going to clean up this tunnel get rid of all this rust treat it prime it paint it that way that's just drying or cleaning up the fuel tank and hopefully we can get everything put back together quicker that way so we'll start by shop vacuum this will get the cheek poker out maybe we got a sand on it don't know what we're getting into i know that i would really like to not weld today if possible but we'll see what happens [Music] well i feel like this is a part in the soap opera when the doctor who's clearly never even picked up a knife in his life walks into the waiting room well it's it's not good news i've got russ coming through in places i never imagined and i think if we're gonna do this let's just cut it out put some fresh metal in there and just get it done yeah we're gonna do that before we even make it run because that's the right thing to do no not even close here's what we're up against guy cleaned it up and this is why you should always just clean on it when you got some weight reduction or you suspect you have some because it just ends up being a lot worse once you get all that bubbled stuff off basically this whole area of the tunnel is a shot and then back here in the corners which is to be expected because this is where all the slush you know she always picks up the old arctic cats fuel tank was back here actually set up up here and this spot always rotted out but each corner you can kind of see a line i think i can get some fresh metal there here this is going to be not so good but i got this piece back here that's solid that i could tie into and then i think i'm going to take this whole chunk out here if i had the material on the patients i would just chop it from here and bring it all the way down to the end and just do the whole tunnel but i don't so here's what we got now i could lap this i've got a pneumatic lapping tool but this doesn't need to be flush so i'm going to cut a sheet out that's close to this dimension i'll mark that out and then i'm just going to leave an inch lip all the way around and we're just going to lap or overlap weld this new piece into this old piece once i get that cut out and then i've got some duplicolor paint it's not perfect but it'll close this hitch matches just here and then over here we'll treat on this too see if we can convert her over you know and then we'll paint on it there and this is the color we got it's for dark blue and i don't know i mean it might it's close enough it's under the seat except for that side now i just got to decide you know do we do the whole tunnel and over i'd hate to lose these graphics over here but with the exhaust being hacked in it's not like it's you know cherry original or anything like that but we've definitely got to slow this down or we've only got a couple years left and this whole tunnel is going to be rotted so we'll start by grabbing this sheet cutting out some pieces and then we'll start cutting into this tunnel got some pieces sliced out and i think that will work we'll snip them right in here nice thing is this is all leftover material from making my own pans and the chevelle for independence so no cost there and they're not perfectly square but that's okay bentley insisted on using his square i think it's fine construction grade so what we've got here is the the yellow is where i'm going to cut and then the red is the actual outline of the piece of material we're putting in so there'll be a lip here that we can set it on for a little bit of i don't know what are we calling it strength i guess so back here the same thing a little bit dicey down here on the edge what i'm gonna do now is take the lightning scissors and then after i get done slicing this out and hopefully not light the track on fire which is right there then we'll get the grinder disc out and see if we can get some stuff in her eyes clean this up real nice and get ready to weld her down [Music] what is that oh this is going fairly well got some uh maybe i should make this a hatch and do some sort of track inspection i can't see the track is too loose so we're gonna have to fix on that in a little bit also got a better view back here there's actually a muffler on this thing i'll be dipped i thought of a straight piped the rumor is the previous owner the old timer was an engineer and he came up with this design here and by the looks of it i'm going to go on ahead and believe that but this worked pretty good uh this is i used a yardstick kind of as a guide you can see what that looks like and then this is freehand so there's a couple different ways you can use that lightning scissor stuff like this that you don't see it don't really matter but it's just easier to go down two by four something you got laying around i've got a support bar across here of course i wanted to leave these bolt holes here one is for the tank and one's for the seat so that's why i didn't want to get this up and around in here now we're going to have an issue down here i haven't decided what i'm going to do and i probably will never decide it but i don't think i'm going to get a wild in there she might just have to float a little bit but that's going to be better than having rotten metal back in here so now i'll just take the grinder and just get me some fresh metal in here so we have something nice to weld to get some weld through primer laid down and blast these patches in and then we can maybe move on to cleaning the tank like we were two hours ago well a guy and a little human guy are working our way through this stuff and we're kind of wandering around and trying to get all this surface rust off and trying to expose these pits because we're going to put a converter in here and try to you know flip this over got a little bit more here to do and then bentley's going to get over there and you're going to get this foot pad cleaned up right all right it better look brand new when you're done so is it should it look like this shiny yeah it should be real shallow i think we're ready to start putting this thing back together she looks like a jigsaw puzzle that's fine i used some dupli-color rust converter and just pretty much everything that's dried up before i get to welding i'm going to lay down this dupli-color weld screw primer here pretty much for all the exposed metal and anywhere that i'm going to be welding or any metal that's going to be overlapped basically we want to control the moisture under there so it just doesn't start rusting again immediately that'd be nice well this is all drying up here i'll grab all the pieces that we got ready and put them in the vise and just kind of deburr them and clean them up a little bit then when this is dry we'll be ready just to rock and roll here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] got this thing all stitched up i'm gonna use my stability tester 200 and make sure the strength is there you know yeah it passed you probably noticed i did most of it in about two inch stitches instead of what you would do on like body panels where you jump around and just spot weld that keeps your heat under control so you don't get any big warps you might have also noticed a little bit more splatter than usual i had the heat turned way down and also my gas a little bit lower than usual now we don't have any big warps in this not that it matters because it's just a tunnel but you know i'm going to hit it with this primer from dupli-color it's self-etching this is really ideal for bare metal and also creates a lot of adhesion for us so we'll kind of just mist this on let that dry and then we're going to hit it with that color i think i'm actually going to run a tape line believe it or not i'll be dipped make sure my 74 million dollar painters tape sticks why does that cost so much anyway i'm gonna hit it with some ace frilly sauce here that'll clean up any dirt and debris and that tape will just stick on there real nice i gotta find some rags you don't need a lot of this juice it's pretty expensive just get a little in here there we go oh just getting spit on it [Music] these tape lines aren't perfectly straight because the guy had to snip down here and there to get kind of the rest of the rust and stuff but it doesn't really matter all this is going to get covered up to seat anyway the blue is not a perfect match i think it's gonna dry a little bit darker but again with that seed on it don't matter we know it's good underneath and gonna last a few years anybody can just get this thing running and go bang around for one or two more seasons but i want it to stick around for a good while and this should hopefully help with that anywho this time change has just gotten me wrapped up sun's coming down didn't expect that i think we're going to clean up for tonight and call it off this has got to dry anyway tomorrow jessica and the other two boys are coming out so we'll really just tie this thing in a bow quickly start with the fuel tank fuel make it happen or in the pump and if she runs which i think we can make that happen we're going to reupholster the seat put some shine on this thing and it's going to look like a brand new machine see you in the morning what do you got going on here um we're gonna launch a rocket a rocket did you build this thing yesterday how is it powered there's a little engine on the bottom here okay and you got some sort of wires running take the safety cap off all right let's fire it up don't you gotta plug the wires in careful now don't get electrocute okay is it wired right yes okay you're gonna give us a countdown um here okay three two one we've got failure to launch oh your leads might have been loose huh everybody get back this is gonna be big okay i'm honestly pretty impressed i have no idea where it went we need like 15 of these just i know keep them running all day right anyway back to the snow machine jessica and the kids are here obviously they're going to help today all of you know that jessica's kind of the interior know-it-all boss queen princess good worker person she does she does interior stuff so i want you to take this seat jessica and i need restoration quality like classic vintage look just i need it to be good okay okay and while she's doing that i'm gonna hand polish up the tunnel and the bottom of the sled here kind of gets shine coming out before we put what i assume is going to be a brand new seat back on here and then we're finally back to the tank and getting the rest of it done you have high hopes guys some mystic wizard cut and i just used my hand started polishing in the sides of the tunnel and then it kind of eats into the different blue the ford blue that we got on here it's close enough and again you're never going to see this into the seat but it's starting to come around a little bit and it's cleaned up will definitely give us a couple more years of use this way we won't have to worry about this brought out guy doesn't want his hind end to drop into that track that's for sure i got to figure out where we put that fuel tank we'll start cleaning it oh it's right there i wonder if a guy can just use the juice that's already in this tank to clean it up and i think i can i got a box of 9 16 nuts here that i'll probably never use and i still can't afterwards anyway but i'm just gonna dump all these in here shake it around a lot and those nuts will break loose any corrosion or surface rust inside the tank and then i'll dump it out and just flush it a couple times and that should work pretty good okay i got that seat done come and check it out oh all right yeah all right jessica said she's got the seat down already so let's go check it out restoration quality oh it's blue oh yeah is this poverty chrome it is oh man it's perfect you really came through on this one yeah there's a reason we get along yeah good job i had to bust out my good skills here so most of the old snow machines will have a dial here and all that runs on is just this cork piece here and as it raises i don't know if you could see that just a twirling away in there like a merry-go-round but that's what moves your gauge this is really rusted and corroded and this thing is not going to float correctly so i'm going to put this on the cheek poker hook to the bench and just clean that up hopefully i got 77 of hardware in the tank so i'm just going to shake on that and not sure where we're going to dump that probably in an environmentally friendly container outside you don't want to shake it too hard apparently [Music] [Music] oh man [Applause] i'm gonna see if i can find a way to dump this into something where you guys can see it so what i'm gonna do is take this and just dump it in here this is already dirty we're not gonna be able to see the sediment but at least you get the color effect anyway this is one of the smelliest tanks we've had in a long time oh yeah that's what is that that's the pickup tube or was the pickup tube that ran into the tank i'm glad we did this because that was never going to work [Music] this completely squished look at the sock fully corroded this most certainly had a fuel delivery problem [Music] and now that i could see in this tank it's really bad i'm going to have to do that a couple times then we'll back this out there should be a fitting and we'll have to put another hose in there with the sock on it because this one is just [Music] it's down look at it plugged completely solid so this is the second time i've flushed it now so the contents of this pan i emptied out and it was clean when i dumped it in the second time so this is legitimately what is coming out of the tank and it's like a rusty mud sure wish all that was gold flake but i'm gonna clean the nuts up put it in the tank keep going we've used about three gallons of gas now it's getting a little bit better but i'm glad we flushed this there's no way this was gonna run on this tank [Music] i could still hear a lot of stuff in here of this lip is kind of preventing that from coming out i might have to pop this drain and see if i can get some of it out of that you can also use marbles file 17 walmart you get a bag for like two bucks and you can dump them in here these have a little bit sharper of an edge but not everybody has this many big bolts laying around so when the old lady goes to walmart just having to pick up the bag of marbles this is now the fourth time yep so i'm going to run this through the wheel here i got to be really careful not to damage this cork and then we need to test this vent as well which is plugged so that also would cause fuel flow issues because we're running a vacuum pump which i'll explain here in a little bit you can see here it's a little bit better and this already moves tremendously easier but i'll get some memory cloth in here and clean this up and then i got i could probably run this through one more time but it's gotta slide smoothly on here so that fuel see this should easily drop to the bottom and it doesn't so that fuel the buoyancy will actually make this needle turn where was i looking at it just oh right there so you guys are probably aware this shop is in bfe wisconsin i mean she's just it's out there i called around 150 miles square ma circle miles radiuses anyway i use the in the map of them this phone book thing and no one's got what i need the little filter on the pickup tube also unfortunately this vent is plugged and this is pretty much hermetically sealed not really worth my time trying to do surgery on that so i need a capillator fuel riser upper downer i need that screen in the tank as well i'm gonna have to google machine that up tonight see if i can bring that in on the line you know so i think a guy's just gonna jump right in and a fuel make it happener and a vacuum fuel pump there and that way if i need any parts i could just order everything up at once bring her on in but one way or another i'm going to get this thing to fire today so this little do dabbing majigger thingy here is actually basically a vacuum fuel pump and there is in from the tank there's out to the fuel mechanic and then one from here usually goes to the end tank plenum or the crankcase and how this works is basically positive and negative pressure from the rise and fall of the piston and that pressure hooks into here and there's a little diaphragm in here and that creates a sucking action it gets your fuel from the tank brings it in and pushes it right into the fuel make it happener usually these have a screen on both sides for fuel in and fuel out kind of like another pre-filter and then in the center here the older units will have like a plastic kind of like a coke bottle plastic that's flexible then the new ones will have like a metal diaphragm with rubber around it and that basically just pushes in and out we'll take this apart what i'm hoping is it was never ran on that kind of fuel that was in the tank and that's just from sitting for the last 15 years and this is clean because it's one less part that i got to try to clean or buy i'm trying to keep the cost down on this thing as much as possible dang screws are longer than a cattle trailer hey clean and this is old style so this is what it looks like screen screen you can hear that clicking that's not moving up and down so this is in really good shape and i didn't ruin the gasket on this i'll be dipped so i'm going to pretend we didn't even take this apart just put her back together pop it in and rebuild [Music] i think it's time a guy changes my water this looks like mud so this is actually a tillotson carb i haven't been into a ton of these but they all work relatively the same this is a diaphragm that sits on here and i believe it's late enough in the year i couldn't be wrong but this looks like the newer style to me with the metal disc and this looks intact and not too dirty which is another good sign looks to me like the needle and seat have been replaced i'll try to get in on this needle see that green this was stuck in the seat and that's another sign of ethanol fuel and that was stuck in there so i had to kind of beat it out and blow into the inlet and i did get it free but everything else looks relatively clean so i think i can soak this run some carb cleaner through that clean it up clean up the needle there and then just reassemble this it was able to save the diaphragm and gasket so that's good news the inside looks really clean not gonna have to do much there might run just some fine sos or something over this emery cloth it's kind of gummy clean that up just a little bit but slap that thing back in here in just a minute craigslist rebuild complete brand new parts everything thoroughly gone through spec bench flowed tested ready to rock what do you got going on over here oh okay did you change the plug today or just check it i checked it you look good all right taking your flag stand off huh i don't have a plane flipped okay well have fun over here we got the shield make it happener back on choker later's on or excuse me the warm-up control i got to find a tiny little cotter key split pin nail for this should be good to go and then i started thinking you know i don't want to have 47 000 of these hose clamps kind of show you i think i got some in here they had on here like this i just no i need to keep these for something else so i'm also going to try to interweb up some of the original style banjo clamps friction clamps you know the boing boing ones that they just slide on here and you can never get off when they're cold i need that but i think i will loosely mount this in at least so i can see what we're aiming for as far as tubage goes easy over there guys getting impatient i want to hear this thing run probably should check on the lightning cylinders down here but we're going to do it all in one shot i mix this up heavy on the oil and that way if it don't fire at least for lubricating the top end i'm just gonna shoot some of this in you know hand injection and give her a couple poles and see if we can at least get it to fire off the guy can get to it fast enough with the bottle we might be able to just keep feeding it compression release arm ignition on neutralis and lockout warm-up control here's some juice almost not so much warm-up control more fuel okay fire we got lightning anyway i don't know where it wants to work [Music] she ran pretty good there for a second [Applause] so [Applause] yes runs great sounds good didn't blow anything out of the exhaust of course we got a bunch of cobwebs and junk blown out here but the sheaves sound good i don't hear any clanking or clanking over there neutral lockout didn't work at first but then you know she came around eventually that's great news we got lightning it's going to run just fine but now i got to get some parts in we need some clamps we need that pickup tube filter we need a fill cap a couple other little things might even pick up an air air filter for it so i'll go home and chop all that stuff up that's going to do it for this video stay tuned for part two hopefully coming up very soon we'll see if we can get the tank back on this thing get it all put back together and even if we don't have snow we're just going to test on this thing see you later [Music]

Channel: Vice Grip Garage

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Keywords: motortrend, roadkill, vice grip garage, vise grip garage, vgg, snowmobile, classic, vintage, supercharged, water skipping, polaris, yamaha, arctic cat, skidoo, bobcat, skeeter, will, it, run, start, revival, budget, restoration, rebuild, send it, ET, enticer, omc, johnson, boa-ski, evinrude, snowmobiles, harley-davidson, harley, davidson, amf, wheel, horse, sno pony, viking, opposed, engine, 440, suzuki, kawasaki

Id: NQvhHDHKic4

Length: 55min 3sec (3303 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 06 2020