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We busted close to 40 lbs of ice out of the skid of a buddy's 900 RMK a few years ago but that was the most ice I'd ever seen built up in a tunnel. Hard to see that there would be room for over twice that much in there.
 

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If its an issue for you to wrap around, why not spend the money and buy aftermarket?
Wrap around??:confused:

No issue. I have them-in fact I had them months before I even recieved my sled. And I had them on my '04.
Just saying if they do such a good job of helping to keep things cool why not make a smaller cooler and make scratcher's standard like they are on other sleds? I'd rather have scratchers and a lighter sled with a smaller cooler than the other way around.
 

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I will go on record that there is no 47-90lbs of ice build up on a sled. Maybe they were pouring concrete in the gas tanks under the tree?
 

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LBZ I could be wrong but i don't think the scatchers are for cooling the motor I believe their intended purpose is to keep you from burning up hyfax on packed snow.
 
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They do both.
Seen it personally on my '04. Sled ran cooler with scratcher's down on the hard pack then it did with them up. Then fins aren't big enough to work as just an air cooled cooler alone and be efficient. And then you put jerry can and tunnel bag on top of it so only one side is open to the air-you need the snow.
 

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LBZ I could be wrong but i don't think the scatchers are for cooling the motor I believe their intended purpose is to keep you from burning up hyfax on packed snow.

If your implying polaris...your wrong!!! The poo pro will over heat the engine before melting hyfax on the trail almost everytime!!
 

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If your implying polaris...your wrong!!! The poo pro will over heat the engine before melting hyfax on the trail almost everytime!!

Absolutely ! On both my '06 900 RMK and my '12 Pro, the scratchers will lower the engine temp over 40*F on packed trails.


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looks like that doo handled better then the flickable polaris......
 

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looks like that doo handled better then the flickable polaris......

And so it should.

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I dunno. They all looked like they handled fairly well but in snow that deep it's tough to pick one over the other.
 

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well it did look like it was carving better. polaris looked like it struggled.
I noticed too....the cat and doo were holding a steady line there in one spot while the poo was bobbing closer to the trees....looked too....flickable?
 

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I looked at the vid again.. Just a tad doctored..

It's amazing how the snow doesn't even stick to the fabric storage bag on the cat... but the snow is just packed on the other 2 sleds behind the seats...

Just an observation..

well,my guess is.... if there is no heat warming up the tunnel like on the Cat, snow will not stick as much...right?
 

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LBZ I could be wrong but i don't think the scatchers are for cooling the motor I believe their intended purpose is to keep you from burning up hyfax on packed snow.
You would be mistaken in that belief. They do both. Critical on the pros to keep the motor from overheating on the packed trails
 

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well,my guess is.... if there is no heat warming up the tunnel like on the Cat, snow will not stick as much...right?
That's right.

Or if the entire tunnel was heated, it would all melt off.
It melts off about an inch or two on either side of the cooler on the Doo so even if they ran a couple aluminum tubes for coolant to circulate through in the corners on the inside it would cut down on ice build up. Or cut down on the length of the cooler like I said before and add scratchers.
 
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