Junked Snow Cycle In Sad Shape.
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- I picked up this chrysler sno runner at a motorcycle at a swap meet over the summer in very poor condition, in part one we got the engine to run, now lets work on the rest of its issues,
I love snap rings, they have the marvelous ability to be constantly in 2 potential states when being installed, either aimed at an eyeball and lethally accurate or nanoseconds away from flying across the room whist performing a transdimensional jump into a parallel universe never to be seen again.
Bwahhhhaaaa!
We've always called them Jesus Rings ... because you're either swearing saying Jesus that hurt .. or Jesus Christ, where'd it go?
What’s to love?
Probably how Heisenberg came up with that whole thing.
😂😂 big facts
The fact that you are able to find a track for that thing is amazing in and of itself!
GIVEN that the bargain was in NOT having to fabricate the thing...in those days we REBUILT or re-fabbed everything as parts were cheaper than rebuilt units.
I thought the same exactly... how the heck is it possible to find a special part for a 50+years old, obsolete device...
Yeah, I couldn't believe it! It wouldn't be hard to recreate those clips with 3D printing, but nothing beats being able to buy one!
It's always fun to hang out and wrench on some old cool stuff with you Mustie!
That stud in the middle between clutch & sprocket might have had an adjustable nylon shoe to take up slack of primary drive chain.
I loved the thumbnail. I have always enjoyed looking at the brochures of old machines.
Hey Mustie1, Mick here. I used a hypodermic needle to inject grease or oil through the plastic seal. The hole closes up behind it when the needle is pulled out.
essential Sunday dinner viewing. beautiful countryside round there, nice owl.. best wishes from the UK.
I am always amazed how you find replacement parts for some of your projects. You must have some kind of a magical parts catalog.
I always love this guy there is no doubt he knows what he’s doing and NOT over powering with the knowledge that he has. Great job sir
Mustie,
Nice on filming the owl at the end...
Your the only person whom I know of that comes up with these types of unique projects to work on. I've never seen one of those sno runners...very neat!
And thank you, sir, for showing and teaching how things work, like the reed valves in the carb, for example.
Greetings from Southern Michigan!
For those crunchy sealed bearings, I use a grease needle adaptor for my grease gun. The needle pierces the seal and then I slowly feed grease into the bearing. It works pretty good!
I love the outtakes and mistakes you include Mustie, makes it real and more relatable! Great video, can’t wait for part 3
Thanks for letting me participate in the shop with your builds and repairs. For some reason you can’t hear me when I make suggestions.
When I was a kid we used to wire brush off the rust and debris off our bicycle chain, put it on a hanger and drop it a can of STP oil treatment. Then put a can of sterno under it. Once hot, as in smoke coming off the can we’d cap off the sterno. Once cool we’d wipe down the chain and use it. Worked for us. BTW, you are fearless. Love that spirit.
The owl at the end is a Mustie subscriber, I'm sure. He knows that some of the stuff Mustie drags to the shop has a mouse house. He's just waiting for the free meal when Mustie opens up whatever he's working on.
Every shop needs a mascot and a wise old owl seems appropriate. Fun project.
Back in the day we had a boat shop and had the snow runners we could not give them away!
Never ceases to amaze me how you reconstruct even the most bizarre mechanical devices.
Coming along! Looking good! And what a beautiful Owl! Thanks Mustie1
Some friends and I Came across one of those machines as a kid back in the eighties. Yours is the only other I’ve ever seen. The skis were broken and parts were unavailable back then. We tore it apart and put the engine on a little western auto go cart. It wasn’t much on low end torque, but if you had a long enough stretch of pavement, I swear that thing would go 70 mph. We road it until one of the others got hurt and our dads made us take it apart. I still can picture that kid flying through the air. Ah, good times. Peace.
These seem straight out of a James Bond film. Just add a parachute for launching off cliffs.
Barn Owls are gorgeous! Thanks, Mustie1! Excellent job on the Chrysler, as always.
Back in the day, we used to pry the seal away from the ball bearing a bit like you did, and used a grease gun with needle tip to lube them up.
You can also drill a pin hole in the seal, then needle grease it.
You can make a chain tensioner, mounting the old sprocket end piece, if you can free it up.
My father bought one identical in the late 70's. I'm sure that somewhere we have some old VHS with us kids having fun using it. At the the we lived in Brookfield WI. Then we moved to Boston, we got to use it for a few winters in Charles River park, next to Mass General Hospital and I remember that during a blizzard we were having fun in downtown Government Center Plaza at the amusement of people, we even had a TV crew film us and air it in the evening news😂. The SnowRunner always worked well, especially with us small and skinny teens. Obviously it preferred compact snow but it did surprisingly well even in snow that was deeper. It took fuel for 2stroke engines, mixed with oil, and one day we forgot to add the oil, it was the last day we used it in the US😢. Many years later it ended up in northern Italy and the engine got fixed, a bigger carburator was replaced and the thing got a few more years of use in Asiago and even in the Dolomites. It's resting place is an uncle's garage, we hardly ever see it anymore but when we do it brings back tons of great memories
Going to Walmart today, apparently I need a turkey baster in my toolbox 🤔 luv this content bud, keep up the good work 👍
Barred Owls are very cool! Great video! Very satisfying for my wandering attention, never a deficit! Thanks!
I consider myself a small engine "piddler", but I have learned so much from you over the last 3 or 4 years. Great information, awesome entertainment and puns galore!
Oh yeah absolutely love the owl so beautiful
That spider ended up crawling across my leg after it fell off the bench and out of my monitor. Cool!
The camo on the owl is just awesome and so are you Mustie. Thank you for the owl and the videos.
It's cold and sleeting outside -so watching parts 1&2 have made for a very enjoyable couple of hours relaxation with both cats keeping me warm, and willing the snow ski to run correctly !
I always enjoy the nature shots at the end of your videos.
Coffee and Mustie - great start to Sunday! Good morning Mustie!
43:12 "put that old stuff in Brian's car when he's not looking".
A beautiful Sunday morning here in Massachusetts and a new Mustie video , life is good 👍
@Mustie1 on the loose chain, I believe it's supposed to go on the other side of the stud and the stud probably had a plastic roller on that broke
The owl at the end was the crowning jewel to the whole episode!
That’s going to be an interesting machine to try and ride! Looking forward to the next episode! Thanks for the very interesting content.
Great shot of the Bard Owl by the way! Thanks
I've been watching your channel for several years now. I don't comment often but I wanted to say that I miss the nature scenes you used to post at the end of your videos. I know the videos are a lot longer then they were in the past so I guess that's why you don't include them nowadays.That was a nice touch,I think and also like every video you say "Hey guys,how's it going?". Anyways big fan of yours I've learned a lot watching you tinker. Best Wishes and keep on Postin' haha
love the tidbits of nature thrown in, beautiful owl
I must say I am amazed you found parts for that thing! I'm thinking that it would probably help the cooling if you cleaned the corrosion off of the fins on the head.
Chrysler's East Jefferson assembly plant (in Detroit) used to have a showroom along Jefferson with large picture windows where they had on display their latest pieces of junk/cars/boats and that thing!
We had a company called JJ Blow in Chesterfield and they had a window with a petrol go cart in when I was a kid. I just used to look in and dream.
@@philtowle4683 Ha! Well I never did ride a sno-bike but I got inspired and have been snowmobiling for 50 years!
Thanks for all the explanations and time those take. This reminds me of a guy that does science outreach as a dinosaur paleontologist. Not that you are working on dinosaurs.
Great video as always. Can’t wait to see it scooting across the property. Thanks
On the bottom of Tillotson carbs they made a filter that screws on in place of the cover. We always put them on our 70’s Ski-doos
I've always wanted one of these. I'd love to have it at my campsite during winter, even though we are restricted as to how far out we can go during bad weather. I remember seeing a couple of these when I was younger being thrown away or given away.
The coffee pot is full, sandwiches ready and on top a Mustie1 video.
What a way to start a Sunny Sunday, Life is good.
Now you did it! We're gonna expect a blooper reel with each video!!!
Awesome as always. You may end up with a freakishly useless piece of equipment, but we had a blast watching!
God bless the out takes Mustie. It makes a good vlog a superb vlog .Greetings from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 and keep up the great work and stay safe and well 👍
God may be busy with other things aye.
That engine would be perfect for your next motorized bicycle
Hey Mustie. Huge thanks for all you do. I truly love the work you do. Keep it up. I've found that when trying to resurrect old chains like that one that an overnight soak in vinegar works wonders.
There can't be many of these still in existence.
As usual great content. I enjoy how most of your videos never end when you expect, always a little extra if you hang around.😊
“Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?” song of the Barred Owl, magnificent creature!
Gotta say I was looking forward to seeing Mustie make a new track somehow.🙂
We might see him make a new and wider aluminum ski for it. That would be interesting.
It's about to snow up here (wherever that is?!) Time to Plow !!
@@Frank-Thoresen some viewer should 3-D print him one!
@@edpoints1127 The question is how strong a 3D printed plastic ski would be. It is not made by a mold but layers.
@@Frank-Thoresen make one and use it as a mold. Just an idea guy. Adapt a waterski. Use a ski that slips over and typically attaches to a tire on an airplane for landing in snow. Personally, I don't think that thing is worth Fabricating something for. You can only polish a turd so much. There has to be something that's easy, cheap, partially made that will be able to be adapted. If you put a $1000 ski on it.... It's going to be worth $1025. So these are a few more options.... They are only my opinions though. Shoot down or dispel all of them too. I'm not here to argue on a UA-cam comments section about something that doesn't pay me money or affect my life. But... Thanks for your opinion on my opinion/option
I love watching you fix up these awesome machines. It brings me joy.
That’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen you work on . 👍 Good job
"Watch your eyes" he said while blowing out the bearings with comp. air and I actually did... 🙄😀Great project and video!
It might not make much difference but -- considering how flimsy the underside of this rig is (thin skis, skinny chain drive) -- maybe it would be worthwhile to give the undersides of the skis a heavy coat of floor wax with a lot of wheel buffing after its dried. To help it slide over the snow with less drag. Great video Mustie1!
Sounds like a great idea.
@@otroflores91 Maybe even proper ski wax.
I went back to Part 1 to look at the cracked skid cover. There is a way it can be saved and be stronger than if you simply try to Super Glue or JB Weld it.
There are plenty of videos on how to 'weld' plastic but the tip that I found most useful was to strip the insulation off of an appropriate length of stranded #12 or so copper wire and pull off a few strands. Bend one of the wire strands into a long 'slithering snake' shape allowing good overlap on each side of the split in the plastic. Lay the copper 'snake' along the underside of the split and tack it into place as needed using a soldering iron. The copper wire will conduct the heat and sink quickly into the rapidly melting plastic.
Then go back to one end, push the soldering iron tip ("Just the tip!") onto the wire and follow along on the copper snake while you squeeze the plastic cover back together. You will 'stitch' the split closed with the now fully embedded copper wire. Keep adding lengths of wire snake until you have reached the other end of the split.
The cover will now probably be stronger where you stitched it than it was when it was new and any future cracks will likely be in a different location. You can use zip ties, strips cut from milk jugs, etc. as 'welding rods' to go back and fill in the split underneath for extra strength. I cut strips off the heavy black plastic tool packaging from HF socket/tool sets and such to use as filler.
Nice way to attack those bearings. Regarding the exhaust - you could take it off and then burn it out with a weed burner. When the old sood has burned, it turns into ashes. When giving the exhaust a good shake or hitting it with the air compressor, the ashes should come out. I do that when I clean out exhausts for my old mopeds.
I love that fancy grass rats garage gas catcher cup. Taryl should give you discounts on mower parts for the good advertisement on your channel. That’s a neat little machine. Good job as always sir. Thank you for the learning experience.
Another awesome video mustie, very enjoyable, beautiful owl at the end 🦉👊
WOW ! Never thought one could find parts for that odd low-production sled.
The thing I like about a sunday afternoon is a movie from Mustie. :) I'm garbage at fixing stuff, so I have to live vicariously.
I'm a 70 year old retired long distant truck driver and 6 Mo ago with not much to do I decided to start buying scooters and tinker with them I do watch aa lot of your shows' as well as others and at my Yes you can still learn, I have 4 50cc one 150cc and my Pride is a 250 cc 54B Roketa scooter with only 2031 miles and runs after getting the ones running then i will see about getting full body replacements I'm not rich but i get what i can to repair them. love your show and will yty and become a member around April the 4th. Jimmy.
If you were surprised to find the parts in stock, imagine how astonished they must have been to see someone ordering them.
I’ve got a old riding snapper, she is old and tired . She doesn’t look anywhere as good as she did when I brought her home. A few years ago, she started to dry up, and couldn’t lubricate herself anymore (damn menopause) I got some of those zoom bottles like you have Mustie! Now when I need to ride my snapper, I squirt a few shots of juice on her, she’s ready to go!
Thank you for sharing. Very much enjoyed.👍
Your getting there she's slowly coming back to life, just a bit more love..That's all. Good Job Thus far Darren. Good job.
That owl was waiting on a mouse to run out of one of your projects.
This thing is fascinating - but the safety conscious engineer in me watches that crazy toothed chain whizing around with no guard and is just screaming “THIS IS A BAD IDEA - INJURIES AHEAD”!
Thanks for the shop time Mustie1!
I can smell that PB blaster clear out here in Calif!
Amazing that you could find parts. I need a planetary gear set for a 1999 MTD Snowblower....not available! Pull the chain around the vise handle and work it back and forth then soak in ATF. A timing chain tensioner or soft pulley is needed to keep the chain in check. Almost might remove a link?
Chrysler was one of the first companies to put car engines in hydroplane boats. In the 1966 hydroplane race known as the President's Cup as it took place on the Potomac River, three racers died in one day and the event would be reflected upon as "Black Sunday". The Chrysler team crew chief argued that the race should continue despite what had taken place leading for the driver Bill Sterett and the crew chief almost coming to blows.
Now you know.
When you get that thing running will be a blast in the snow you're going to have lots of fun on that and kids are going to love it
Love the rebuilds and how practical you are, maybe i missed it but please add a chain tensioner to the external chain. It hurts to see it dance so much 😊
Pick up a Hypodermic Needle with a Grease Zert in the end. I would take a drill bit one size smaller than the Hypodermic and drill a hole through the center of the Seal and that makes it easy to inject Grease into the Bearing.
It's always a good idea to pop the bearing in the freezer overnight and the clutch in the oven for a bit.
Get the temperature differential as much as possible and it will slide in a lot easier.
This thing is awesome. Please get it to 100%! I was born in 77, i vaguely remember these but we were poor so it was just a dream!
One thing I like about Mustie, he's not that much older than me but he reminds me of my Dad's generation. Younger people would be like make sure you put on safety glasses and a dust mask and hearing protection. Those older guys they just let it roll unless they were at work and were forced to wear safety stuff and then half they time they didn't do it there either.
We are the last of the full grown men.....
@Mark Deaton It's not the best idea but using a cell phone while pumping gas causing a fire is a myth.
@Mark Deaton I usually use paint thinner, LOL
Thats why my grandpa is missing his index finger
Unlike my dad and grandads, I can hear very well past fifty years of age because of hearing protection.
My dad told me in my younger years, “There’s a fine line between tough and stupid!”
I was excited about those Yamaha snow cycle looking machines at one time! Looked cool to me! It goes the way of the old jet skis that had the handle bars that lifted up, like In Jaws II. lol
Need to add a couple outriggers on it to help stabilize the snowbike while it's ridden.
The outtakes are the best. No apparent frustration - just the Mustie1 chuckle with a few words. Awesome content as usual.
Thank you for a trip down memory road. I was a young man working as a mechanic at a Chrysler dealer I remember we had a few of the skis in stock for sale I always thought they were a little difficult to ride
What luck, as I sat here the notification came in, you know I'm gonna drop what i was doing to watch.
Winter is over, here in Texas, but holding out some hope there will be enough snow left up there in NE for a test ride.
That is utterly amazing that you were able to find parts for this thing. I thought you would end up having to fabricobble everything for it.
The owl at the end has heard about the mouse problems that you have. He's come to give you a hand.
I had one of these years ago as I picked it up at a motorcycle shop going out of business. There was a parts source for them and you could even buy a modified one although that source may have dried up. A hell of allot of fun as long as you don't run over a dry spot of concrete then it slides right out from under you. You used to be able to fold up with a quick-release gas line and put in your car trunk. Good luck with it.
I did notice the quick-release fitting at the tank end of the line in the first video.
@@Ragnar8504 That is so you can shut it and the vent in the gas cap off so you can fold the unit and put it in your trunk.
The face on the end of the exhaust looks like Jason Vorhees off Friday the 13th wearing his hockey mask lol
Pretty neat sled! From one tinkerer to another maybe you could free up and utilize the original rear sprocket gear or another one from the scrap heap as an idler adjust for the clutch drive chain .Just a suggestion....... Glenn
Excellent video Mustie 1 :) also how that chain lose on slack you put metal idle pulley to help running with also idle one use on a Rotteiller for rubber belt tentsion but chain light plus bolt up okay too! Also cool get this machine up running and plus try out too!
I can't wait to see Mustie bombing around on the Snow Runner, giggling like a crazy bugger 👍
Great to see it come back! What a crazy machine, well worth the effort.
Absolutely can't wait to see this thing in action first time I've ever seen one
Don't get your hopes up it's kinda a novelty item. Similar to the gasoline powered pogo stick. Still a neat item but conditions have to be just right side i think it may have been designed for a kid . Size dictates the Performance
28:04 🤣🤣 You have a great sense of humor sir! 37:44 Yes it does. 😆😂 Great video. Thank you Darren. PS - Cool owl. 👍
That was pretty good hahaha, that thing was smoking like a fog machine, and then you saw that drill running like hell.
That odd fuel connector is a Chrysler outboard fuel connector.
There is suposed to be a tensioner that goes on that rod that sticks out under the clutch, it was missing when you took off the case, so you might have to find that part to get the chain tight.
There's the comment I was looking for, I knew someone had to know.
You might be able to do some good with a half-link.