Time to confess... I hurt my XM....... at the 40km mark on the odomter

[Circled-Mistake]

Picked up sled on Thursday night (thanks Martin Motorsports)... Put first tank of fuel in Saturday morning, headed out to make a few miles with my brother (Young-Gun) in the fields around my old stomping grounds..... WOW are these sleds wicked!!!!!!!! TOTALLY different animal than what I was expecting!!!! Coming off of a 2006 REV I had no real expectations but wow!!!!! Amazing power throughout the whole rpm range, smooth ride, excellent maneuvering and reaction to body movement... All in all a great ride..... Until the end where we were coming home.....

We decided to head back a little early, had a birthday to attend anyway, was ditch-banging like us prairie folk like to do... I lined up a few drifts (or what i thought was a drift) do get some decent wheelie action... Came up off of one, about a 4 or 5ft wheelie.... Upon coming down, what I thought was my second drift to hit ended up being a HUGE rock!!!!!!!!!! I didn't even know what happened until i quit rolling on the ground and got on my feet to see where my sled ended up.....

So it happened, I crashed..... The right ski ended up hitting DIRECTLY ahead of the pivot point of the ski, completely directing all of the pressure into the shock.....The shock bottomed out HARD, bending the Shock rod.... The ski then went completely vertical, and smashed into lower A-arm, which completely severed front section of A-arm from the mount on sled..... Completely collapsed Backside of Lower A-Arm, bent up top structure of ski, and turned my Upper A-arm into a boomerang.....

My brother didn't believe me when I yelled "SNAPPED AN A-ARM"!!!! HE called Bu**-Sh*t... Then he walked up and saw the carnage..... I swear he turned whiter than the snow we were riding.....

Lesson of the day.... Its early in the season, watch out for rocks ( not only in mountains, in the ditches too) and take care of your brand new sled.... It hurt my pride a little, but Im sure the guys at Martin Motorsports will take good care of her and let me know if there's anything else wrong other than the obvious....

NOW........ PICTURE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cutting the bad pieces out to see the main structure on the sled revealed that there LOOKS like no other damage other than the A-Arm, Shock and Ski Carnage..... But time will tell......

HOPEFULLY THE WEAK LINK IN THE SLED WAS THE A-ARMS!!!!!!!!!!! Would be a crying BABY if there is worse damage that I can see...

 

[Clode]

That really blows.

 

[maxwell]

Almost looks like you may have gotten out of this one extremely lucky. Even if it is out a a bit just slap some new a arms on and ride it.

 

[whoDEANie]

Outch!

 

[duck]

Picked up sled on Thursday night (thanks Martin Motorsports)... Put first tank of fuel in Saturday morning, headed out to make a few miles with my brother (Young-Gun) in the fields around my old stomping grounds..... WOW are these sleds wicked!!!!!!!! TOTALLY different animal than what I was expecting!!!! Coming off of a 2006 REV I had no real expectations but wow!!!!! Amazing power throughout the whole rpm range, smooth ride, excellent maneuvering and reaction to body movement... All in all a great ride..... Until the end where we were coming home.....



We decided to head back a little early, had a birthday to attend anyway, was ditch-banging like us prairie folk like to do... I lined up a few drifts (or what i thought was a drift) do get some decent wheelie action... Came up off of one, about a 4 or 5ft wheelie.... Upon coming down, what I thought was my second drift to hit ended up being a HUGE rock!!!!!!!!!! I didn't even know what happened until i quit rolling on the ground and got on my feet to see where my sled ended up.....

So it happened, I crashed..... The right ski ended up hitting DIRECTLY ahead of the pivot point of the ski, completely directing all of the pressure into the shock.....The shock bottomed out HARD, bending the Shock rod.... The ski then went completely vertical, and smashed into lower A-arm, which completely severed front section of A-arm from the mount on sled..... Completely collapsed Backside of Lower A-Arm, bent up top structure of ski, and turned my Upper A-arm into a boomerang.....

My brother didn't believe me when I yelled "SNAPPED AN A-ARM"!!!! HE called Bu**-Sh*t... Then he walked up and saw the carnage..... I swear he turned whiter than the snow we were riding.....

Lesson of the day.... Its early in the season, watch out for rocks ( not only in mountains, in the ditches too) and take care of your brand new sled.... It hurt my pride a little, but Im sure the guys at Martin Motorsports will take good care of her and let me know if there's anything else wrong other than the obvious....

NOW........ PICTURE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cutting the bad pieces out to see the main structure on the sled revealed that there LOOKS like no other damage other than the A-Arm, Shock and Ski Carnage..... But time will tell......

HOPEFULLY THE WEAK LINK IN THE SLED WAS THE A-ARMS!!!!!!!!!!! Would be a crying BABY if there is worse damage that I can see...

That sucks but I know how you feel.....And good thing your not hurt....I wrote off a brand new 1997 RMK when I smoked a huge rock in Revy at christmas time.....no lump or anything, just a sudden stop. Can happen to anybody..... Hopefully its not bent too bad.

Good luck!!

 

[Dazzler]

Ouch!!! sorry bout yer wreck!! hope thats the extent of your damage..... been there and it's deffinately hard on ones pride!!!!

 

[Circled-Mistake]

Almost looks like you may have gotten out of this one extremely lucky. Even if it is out a a bit just slap some new a arms on and ride it.

I totally agree that I may have came out of this extremely lucky..... Seems the a arms and shock took all the force..... Oh and still waiting for you to pm me your A-arm fatigue hole locations!!! LOL

 

[ferniesnow]

Sorry for your pain. Yes, early season can be a time bomb………….

 

[maxwell]

I totally agree that I may have came out of this extremely lucky..... Seems the a arms and shock took all the force..... Oh and still waiting for you to pm me your A-arm fatigue hole locations!!! LOL

What you gona test them for me lol?

 

[Circled-Mistake]

What you gona test them for me lol?

Heck why not... I know the perfect rock to use!!!

 

[team-x]

If thats all at least its only an few hours to swap everything out and be back on the snow. Hope the e and s modules are still straight!
(When I was reading this I had a chisel plow in my mind hiding under a drift till you said rock)

 

[CUSO]

check your chaincase upper mounting points. The casting on the chaincases seem to be another weak point.

 

[pooch]

not sure if you looked into cost but it may be less $$ to get the S-36 kit and use what you need and keep the rest for spare's .

 

[Circled-Mistake]

If thats all at least its only an few hours to swap everything out and be back on the snow. Hope the e and s modules are still straight!
(When I was reading this I had a chisel plow in my mind hiding under a drift till you said rock)

Had u goin for a minute LOL!!!

check your chaincase upper mounting points. The casting on the chaincases seem to be another weak point.

Are you talking the actual mounting points for the case???? will look into that for sure!!!

not sure if you looked into cost but it may be less $$ to get the S-36 kit and use what you need and keep the rest for spare's .

Already got my name on a kit LOL (pending nothing else is wrong)!!!!!!!!!!!!! 80 bucks for a new shock rod, and 300 for right side A-arms.... Ill have a whole front end spare in case any of the 3 X's in our group take the same DARK path!!

 

[young-gun]

I agree, get s-36 package. never know who may need parts.

 

[machinehead]

That confirms it, any brand can self destruct at 40km..............:d
That's a hell of a first scratch !

 

[machinehead]

I agree, get s-36 package. never know who may need parts.

Brotherly love right there !

 

[takethebounce]

When you get it all back together and the shocks are no longer in matching locations in the arms, don't worry about it unless they are actually making contact with the arm. I will find it very hard to believe that the s-module isn't tweaked. And if it is, ride it. Replace it next summer. Or don't. I never replace mine unless it is really bad.

 

[Circled-Mistake]

That confirms it, any brand can self destruct at 40km..............:d
That's a hell of a first scratch !

Tick Tock Tick Tock....... BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Circled-Mistake]

Brotherly love right there !

HE agreed to buy the extra A-Arms to make a full kit again...... Just with that reply...