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PB in CO

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http://westslope.craigslist.org/hvo/4868682017.html

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Looks like a money pit!:biggrin: I saw that yesterday and if it weren't for the shipping costs I'd probably buy it for a parts rig. I have a PB260 that I put about 500hrs on each winter and parts are expensive!
 
Alaska Snow Cat said:
Looks like a money pit!:biggrin: I saw that yesterday and if it weren't for the shipping costs I'd probably buy it for a parts rig. I have a PB260 that I put about 500hrs on each winter and parts are expensive!
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Its a money pit, or more of a elbow grease pit, for someone with lots of time and a will to do it...
 
Nikson said:
Its a money pit, or more of a elbow grease pit, for someone with lots of time and a will to do it...
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I replaced all the track belting on mine this season and with shipping and some hardware I have right at $10,000 into rebuilding the tracks. Filters and fluid changes plus a few other misc. parts brought it up another $2000. I do all my own maintenance so that helps out a lot.

Shipping to Alaska is a big factor in the cost of doing business for me too. I checked with belting suppliers and could have saved about $3000 by cutting and drilling my belts but the labor would have gone way up as wasn't worth it IMO. I have slowly learned over the years that there is the cheap way, the expensive way and the smart way. The learning curve of doing it the cheap way can cost a lot more than the expensive way.:biggrin:
 
Alaska Snow Cat said:
I replaced all the track belting on mine this season and with shipping and some hardware I have right at $10,000 into rebuilding the tracks. Filters and fluid changes plus a few other misc. parts brought it up another $2000. I do all my own maintenance so that helps out a lot.

Shipping to Alaska is a big factor in the cost of doing business for me too. I checked with belting suppliers and could have saved about $3000 by cutting and drilling my belts but the labor would have gone way up as wasn't worth it IMO. I have slowly learned over the years that there is the cheap way, the expensive way and the smart way. The learning curve of doing it the cheap way can cost a lot more than the expensive way.:biggrin:
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For you guys up north, its for sure everything is probably double on the costs...

I've looked into rebelting my tracks - buying hardware from local supplier wholesale & belting already pre-punched - wont be more than $1500 total cost (plus labor of dis & assembly) - where I got couple of handy buddies to help on that... :)

But the cheap/expensive/smart ways - its a common sense thing - I can only AGREE with you there... somethings are best to be paid for and left out of the personal line of labor...

PB is already sold by the way from what I hear.
 
ak snow cat you are right with my track rebuild ,5 days of labor in disassembly, I had new pre punched belts came with the machine new guides ,sold to me so cheep Dr Zaugg had to have lost money paying some on to remove them, new fasteners and shipping set me back almost $3800 by the time it all got to nome. tack on re assembly time and new perma groomer front idlers ,one shipped ups from minnasota I spent a chunk of change and haven't started to pretty it up yet.
 
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