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Been a Yamaha, Polaris guy. Had opportunity to p/up low km M1000. Looks clean. Seems little beefier than my Polaris RMK. Waiting for Snow......Yahoo........ 11EC9430-9B05-40A0-BE2C-3E0993999F39.jpg 8DEC0B18-D3B9-4953-B5B1-044CD383339F.jpg
 

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Right on. You'll love it.
I had one. (Well 1000 crossfire so a little shorter)
I did find the seat was too low.
I put a 2012 cat seat on.
Loved it.


Happy riding.
 

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Loved my M1000. Great sled and super reliable. 3” Track is a great upgrade for the big twin.
 

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Best hp gain on that sled it’s to put the track on backwards. If not it just spins for ever! The m1Ton pull hard! Nice sled

Interesting. I had look at track, not sure how the sled would gain horsepower by reversing track. Here is a pick. Maybe sled reduces trenching, more forward action. Might have to do some R&D this winter. Here is a pic of the track. Thank You PB43.

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Interesting. I had look at track, not sure how the sled would gain horsepower by reversing track. Here is a pick. Maybe sled reduces trenching, more forward action. Might have to do some R&D this winter. Here is a pic of the track. Thank You PB43.

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The track doesn’t add any power of course. What this sled needs is to channel its huge torque to the ground. The flimsy, soft paddle track that Cat put on was a terrible choice - could have used a 2.5 to 3.0 Camo extreme right out of the gate.

If it was me I would be probably do a 3” powerclaw.
 

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Pistonbroke, I agree 100%. “Torque matters”. Forward Motion. 3” would likely do wonders on this sled. I will look into it. Thank You.
 

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Pistonbroke, I agree 100%. “Torque matters”. Forward Motion. 3” would likely do wonders on this sled. I will look into it. Thank You.

Yeah man, especially being a 153". We had the same sled back in 2007 and the difference a 2.5" camo extreme made was incredible. If a 3" was available to me back in the day, probably would have gone that route.

Have fun and stay on top of wires, hoses, etc for chaffing. She's a Rosie O' Donnel caliber vibrator...LOL
 

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Interesting. I had look at track, not sure how the sled would gain horsepower by reversing track. Here is a pick. Maybe sled reduces trenching, more forward action. Might have to do some R&D this winter. Here is a pic of the track. Thank You PB43.

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Lol it doesn’t actually add hp it just makes it get to the ground in form of traction. My wife had a m7 with that track. On hard packed snow if you punched it the sleds you just spin. Put a 2.5” stiff paddle track and was a totally different sled.
 

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This how I read your conversation. Wrong!!! He stopped riding with you, you never made it to top mountain. Then as you said, “got stuck”, waiting for you on top.

Hahaha nah he got stuck on the ride up so you did read it wrong. He got a 15 M8000 153” and it greatly improved his riding
 

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Fired up the cat. Idle, no gas. Let it warm up about 2 minutes. Then she settled down. Notice there is big vibration from this motor at idle. Might have to check motor mounts regularly, along with replace bearing in diamond drive. The ski are 6” and 42” long. Thinking a longer, wider ski, order some motor mounts. A big motor like this pumping out 165+ hp stock. Think a longer track would perform excellent with this setup. 174”?
 
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