Anyone have any old John Deere snowmobiles?
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Topic: Anyone have any old John Deere snowmobiles?
Posted By: baverwolf
Subject: Anyone have any old John Deere snowmobiles?
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2018 at 9:54pm
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Hi guys! I'm looking for parts for a John Deere liquifire snowmobile. Parts from a John Deere cyclone snowmobile may work also. Let me know if you have one of these old gems sitting around! Be kind....I know I'm asking about that "other" green company! Thanks! Ben |
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:08am
| try Hudson saw company, they make portable and stationary band saws for making lumber, and they also deal in parts for all makes of snowmobiles. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 5:54am
Do you still have enough snow down there to use the snow mobile...? Darrel |
baverwolf wrote:Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 6:58am
| We have a '79 Liquifire 340. I think that's the correct year. It's been sitting inside though not covered. Ran perfectly when we quit using it. |
Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 7:28am
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Try here https://www.facebook.com/groups/275408332615206/forsaleposts/" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/groups/275408332615206/forsaleposts/ |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 7:38am
| I just bought a nice cyclone 340 last summer. Ran when parked 20 years ago... Hope to get it going. Before I bought it, google searches seemed to find lots of parts |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:30am
Yes Darrel, we do. Still about 2 ft in most places. More where it drifted or didn't blow. Supposed to be in the low 40s the rest of this week so it should start disappearing. We got another 6 inches of really wet snow last Friday and Saturday. It was basically slush. So far we've had about 53 or 54 inches of snow here for the winter. I've never seen this much snow here in my lifetime. We're thankful for the much needed moisture! |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:31am
Thanks Shameless, ill try them! |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 10:32am
I don't use Facebook, but my wife does. Ill have her look into it. Thanks! |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 11:23am
| What exactly is it you want? |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 1:41pm
| I'm needing a stator for a 76-77 liquifire or cyclone with the kiortz engine. |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 3:09pm
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Try Al's snowmobile in Newport VT. I see on their web site they have JD parts. I remember years ago, JD said they were staying in the snowmobile business, when so many others were getting out. But when they lost their engine manufacture they were done. Tim ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 5:41pm
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Yeah way back in th3e 80's when I lived in AK, The stator went belly up on my liquifire. I found one with a dusted motor in it in Anchorage. Stuck the used stator on my sled and threw the remains in the landfill. It ran like a beast. Only trouble I had was with the antique track and the bolt on cleats coming lose. Good luck in finding the needle in the hay stack. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 7:37pm
| So, Ben, the Powder River might actually have some water in it this spring...? Darrel |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 9:10pm
| go on to vintage sleds.com thats the other forum website that i get on every thing is on there and they have a very good classified and alot of good tech. as i like the old sno-jets |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 9:14pm
Yes, and it does now as I type! Actually, we had an ice jam in the powder on our place that just went out yesterday afternoon. It flooded quite a bit of our river bottom areas. Thankfully it's gone now. I was a little worried with the forecasted warmer weather with all the snow and an already bank full river with an ice jam no less. It was setting up to be a bad situation. How is your weather? Ben |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 9:15pm
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Thanks guys for the ideas. Ill do some digging and see what I come up with! Ben |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 9:23pm
| go to that vintage sleds.com and go to resserections down aways and look for a post sst 500 and thats what i rode this winter not a very good pictures |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 9:35pm
I feel your pain on the loose track cleats. This is the second track on this one. First one had the full width cleats. This one has the 2/3rd staggered cleats and seems to be holding up a lot better. Also, I'm finding that the stator is the kiortz engines weak link. Everywhere I've called says they were known to go bad. Apparently the flywheel had weak magnets so the stator had to have many turns of wire. To get the required number of turns of wire it had to be thin as a hair to fit on the poles. Add that with something that is 40 years old, is exposed to high humidity, and the occasional mouse wee wee. No wonder they go bad. I guess all things must come to an end. I might have to retire the old girl. I hate to as the newer sleds just aren't good for day in day out work on a ranch. The new sleds go fast but aren't good for crawling around slow or pulling a heavy sled. I've got a newer arctic cat that is really nice to ride to get from point A to B, but just doesn't pull like the old john Deere. It will do it for awhile, but $80 belts get expensive. The old liquifire will pull a load all day long and not wear out a belt. It's geared low. But it will still get up and go if you need it too. It might not go 80 but 50 will still easily catch a coyote. Enough of my ranting. Thanks! Ben |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 9:51pm
I found your post, but couldn't get any pictures to load. Might be my internet. Ill try again tomorrow. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2018 at 10:24am
| Ben, guess we don't have a fraction as much snow as you do. What we have had, has mostly been pretty dry, up until just the other day here. Got about 4 inches of wet heavy stuff. It's melting, but most of it's running off. Our sub soil moisture is non-existent. It's going to take some rain if we are going to get any hay or crops this year. We do occasionally get that two feet of wet heavy snow in April or May storm, that has helped in the past. Maybe we get one of them this year. Darrel |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2018 at 6:44pm
| i think that you have to registier to tha t webite to see the photos but once you do it is loaded with photos and brand specific tech sections oem parts books ect. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2018 at 8:51pm
| Don't have 1 now but used to run 1. Was a good runner had a lot of fun with it. |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2018 at 7:29am
Ill register. Sounds like a good site! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2018 at 7:51am
| Glad you didn't get washed down the river, Ben. How close is your place to the river? The Powder does kind of have a reputation for either being dry, or flooding, and not much in between, not....? Maybe you ought to write up a thank you note for Shameless, thanking him for all the snow you got, put it in a bottle and throw it in the river. See if Shameless finds it in the Missouri in a few years. LOL! Darrel |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2018 at 11:10pm
Darrel, the house and buildings are about 1/4 mile from the river. They're built up on a bank. They can't get wet very easy and if they do we're really in trouble. River has gotten right to the bottom of the bank in the spring of 1979. We've actually got about the same amount of snow this winter as the winter of 78 and 79. "Thats what I've been told by the old timers" Your idea of thanking Shameless sounds like a good idea! He must have spent a lot of time greasing and adjusting his machine last summer! I took a gamble today and put my one surviving snowmobile to bed for the summer. That will guarantee another good storm. It's melted a lot here the last few days. I put a set of chains on the 4-wheeler and can get around on my trails now. Spring is coming! How's the calving going?? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 8:47am
| Well, Ben. Calving isn't going as good as I would like it to. Death loss hasn't been teribble, but still worse than I like it to be. Ever have them calves that just plain act like "they are too stupid to live?" Had a couple of them. Had a couple that got trampled in the barn, which really upset me because each time there were only two pair in the barn, and we had put them in the barn to ensure that they had every opportunity to live. Should have left em outside. Weather has been tolerable, however that may change today. Wet heavy snow started falling about 5:30 this morning, and we probably have about 3 inches already. Could get up to a foot. I would imagine that you put calving season when snow should be a thing of the past for the year, not. .? Darrel |