Bolens Diablo
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Topic: Bolens Diablo
Posted By: WDman1951
Subject: Bolens Diablo
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 1:54pm
Since everyone is so upset I never post nothing and thinks I'm dead here ya go gonna get myself into another expensive hobby and get a vintage snowmobile but not just any sled a cool rare bolens Diablo ever since I seen one at a show a couple years ago it just caught my eye but they're kind of expensive never seem one for under 1500. Well this one needs tracks but it's only two hundred bucks it runs and I found a guy in Wisconsin that remakes all the parts for this model so new parts are easy to find. Needless to say I'm pretty excited gotta get it hauled down from Canada but that's no big deal. Bolens bought out huski in 67 and made this sled from 67 to 69 kind of odd looking not overly fast but very Cooland rides nice I've been told       ------------- 1951 WD 1945 C 1936 WC |
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 1:59pm
| Does the chair come with it , ride in style |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 2:52pm
OK but where's the snowmobile?  Interesting, I'll have to google it. OK Googled [TUBE]c-c1IrbYseg[/TUBE]
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 6:01pm
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First glad your still with us! Looks like you have reinvented your hobby! I had never seen one of those. Pretty neat old machine. Regards, Chris
------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 6:05pm
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Hi Cody, I had a model 200 Hus-ski from 1992 to like 2000. Bolens bought Hus-Ski. My kids loved it. Do you notice the off set up in the handle bar by the brake and throttle. Well mine was straight across. So when the front end dropped quick, the handle bar could hit your chin. Then when the front end went up quick, this like crossing a road, the handle bar would come right down on your legs. You'll get the hang of it real quick. I'm thinking your gas, and brake levers are reversed compared to all other snowmobiles now or then. Tim ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: WDman1951
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 6:52pm
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Yeah I think that's there major downfall is the chin and knees but otherwise people like them. I thin of it like the early power unit tractors like horse drawn but with a motor idk just kind of guide it along idk don't see many of em they're fairly rare so I'm happy to have one it'll go good next to the Terra tiger ------------- 1951 WD 1945 C 1936 WC |
Posted By: A-C_220
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 7:07pm
| Good luck with the project. |
Posted By: im4racin
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 9:18pm
| I would like to find a chaparral ssx they were only made in 74. I have found a couple but didn’t have money at the time. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 10:17pm
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When and where are you going to ride it?? We don't have ANY snow!! Got some freezing rain today, but no snow.... It's a good thing the handle isn't longer.....think about it.  When I was a newlywed, I had some quite different hobbies.....just sayin.... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 9:55am
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The mans gotta take a break and cool off somehow. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2019 at 11:56am
| I just saw a raid trap 718 for sale. Never heard of those either. Cool lookin rig as well. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2019 at 12:10pm
| Cool. I've rode quite a few sleds in the past, but never seen 1 of those. Lots of Massey,JD and Polaris around when I was riding in the 1970's and 80's. |
Posted By: Ken(MI)
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:00pm
| I have a friend who owned one of those back in the day, he just aquired one for antique rides, not fast, but about impossible to stop also, those cleated tracks were only bad on ice. Probably not very comfortable, but none of that old stuff was. |