BillM

Sweet anchor setup!

Give Ryan and Dan a call at We Pound'em fishing... Ryan is a board member, great guys, always on the fish. http://www.wepoundemfishing.com/

Appreciate the advice guys.. I rotated the crank and there's no pieces in the bottom end. From the looks of the mashed up piston most of that skirt is melted to the top/sides of it.. (I'll grab some pics so you'll see what I'm talking about).. I checked the intake/exhaust ports for any damage and there is none. Neighbour also came over to take a look at things (He's a snowmobile guy) and gave it a once over. Said a re-hone and piston and I should be good to go. He's also mentioned something to my oldman about filling the bottom end with oil to get any pieces out we can't see, Once I talk to him in person, I'll figure out what he's actually talking about. I'd love to blow some $$$ on a new sled, but I use this thing maybe 15-20 times a year for icefishing and that's it. I'm not ready to sink $$$ into a sled to let it sit there and collect dust, lol.

I can't see any visible damage to the crank, so hopefully a new piston + re-hone does the job.. Fishing was good, put 18-20 on the ice, nothing big but a fun day with the oldman.. I didn't even think of the sled overheating, 2 trips would have probably been a good idea. ecmilley, appreciate the advice I'll look into that site.

Nah, I'll just have a $1000 repair bill instead of a $100 top end kit I'll stick to the 2-smoke!

Well the 6-8inches of slush and at least a foot of powder on Lake Joe were too much for my sled yesterday. Was almost back to the truck when I felt the sled lose power.. I had my dad on the back + our Clam Nanook so there was no way I was going to stop.. Ran it on 1cyl for about 100 meters or so and once we got back to the truck.. Wouldn't restart (although it tried) so I knew I had a dead cyl. Got it home and pulled the head + cyl and yup, cylinder closet to the exhaust was completely destroyed.. Blew one half off the piston skirt (I've never seen that before).. Other cylinder looks fine. No metal or anything in the crankcase.. Other then ordering a new piston/gasket kit is there anything else I should be looking at? I know the 03-06 550 fan cooled engines had major problems, but I can't find anything on my '01.. I've tried to search for additional cooling mods I can make to the sled in order for it to run cooler but haven't had much luck. What about header wrap for the exhaust? Perhaps some ducting from the front to cool the engine down a bit more? I've heard about the 550 running lean in the mid range which leads to the engine popping, but again I can't find anything specific to my year, just the 03-06 engines.. Should I maybe run the tank at 100:1 instead of straight gas in order to get around this issue? Again, just looking for some advice, thanks boys! I had to keep the poor thing pinned to stay up on top of the slush, with all that extra weight it just couldn't take it.. I'm just glad it didn't happen out in the middle of the lake, we would have been in really bad shape if we had to walk back the 4+kms to the truck in those conditions.

BigUgli, you can probably blame your ISP's DNS servers for the 404 errors. I know that I was having issues with Rogers a few weeks back. If you know how, add the Google DNS servers to your routers Primary and Secondary DNS lookup list. DNS #1 8.8.8.8 DNS #2 8.8.4.4

I was going to print out that same pass for this weekend, except I blew the top end in my Indy 550 today, lol!

Only issue I have with my Saros 1000 on the ice is line freezing on the pickup and the spool. But that's mother natures fault, not the reels.

I used the 'personalize' option on the MNR website! LOL!

I've got a big fat turkey on mine.

I found some killer crappie spots last year on _______ ________. Big slabs, even a few on the flyrod in the evening!

www.paintscratch.com will make you up anything you want as far as paint is concerned.

Bob Cole on his worst day is better then Simpson, Hughson and Healy on their best.. I don't need Cole to tell me what's going on in the game, I'll use my eyes for that. His voice IS HNIC.... An absolute legend.

Where did all the Sens fans go? Getting drowned out by Leafs fans in your own building, man that's embarrassing!

I still love Bob even if he gets a few calls wrong I'd still like to see him and Neale back in action. Best pair of announcers to ever hit the CBC.

I already bought my marshmellows and trebles!! Ah well, I'll sell them to some Russian dude on the Credit I guess.

Absolutely not.

Now that is pretty cool.

LOL! I can be like Rose in Titanic standing in the front of the boat while my oldman drives :)

Boat chartplotter/sonar doesn't have a data connection to DL satellite imagery.

Bah earthworms! My 48.5in entry

I'll be fishing.

Lots of places in Kempenfelt Bay to access lakers without a crazy walk.

The unit doesn't matter, the map does.. If you had a garmin GPS loaded with a topo map for example, you'd get all the land elevations and the outlines of the lakes..