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List of
general tips for restoring your snowmobile:
1. Before you buy a project snowmobile, do a little research. Find out how hard it will be to find parts. Hard to find parts equal more money out of your pocket to restore it. 2. Once you have a sled in your possession, look it over. Get a feel for how it was made. 3. Take lots of pictures. This is where a digital camera can come in handy. You can never take enough pictures. They will become very handy when it comes time to put everything back together. 4. Find all the documents you can on the snowmobile. If you can get your hands on a service manual, that book will become your most valuable tool. 5. Take more photos. 6. Begin the process of stripping down the snowmobile. This is the best bet to restoring your project. This way you will know, if parts are missing, or broken. 7. Metal parts usually need to be cleaned of rust. Sand blasting is the best way, but wire wheeling is also a good method. 8. If you are to sand blast, make sure any "soft" parts are either masked off or removed. Sand being blasted from the gun, can easily destroy rubber bushings. 9. Fiberglass parts need a softer touch. If those glass parts need repainting, gently sand the surface first. 3M rubbing pads work the best. Be careful not to dig into the surface. Repainting will bring out any deep scratches. So make sure the surface is very smooth and clean. 10. Plastic parts need a delicate touch. If broken, they can be very hard to repair, and can be very costly to replace. 11. Examine the track. It makes no sense to put time, effort, and your hard earned money into a project, just to have a dry rot track blow out the first time you ride. 12. When painting metal parts, put on a good coat of primer first. This will inhibit rust, and gives your finish coat a good base to bond to. 13. When painting fiberglass or plastic parts, you may need to put down a coat of primer, to allow the finish coat to bond to. 14. Be gentle putting parts back together, you don't want to scratch up that nice paint job, you just spent hours on....... 15. Take more photos, to be sure things are going back together correctly. 16. Check your documentation, do things look correct? 17. Take even more photos. You need those good before and after photos, to show off to your friends.
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