mikeexplorer

$40 you get the ride (50 miles), a t-shirt, and a chicken dinner after the ride. Good ride and good deal

This is now an annual event which raises money for the Relay For Life to help cure cancer. Over 200 machines plus passengers attend the event. (I don't have the exact count from this year) The whole town of Renovo welcomes the riders for the weekend and there are plans to connect this town to the nearby state trails as part of the "Northcentral ATV Initiative"

There are no longer any dealers on the East coast. I am kinda surprised they are not more popular here, out west they are common. They even make a small one that can be towed behind a side by side. For $500 they will deliver it right to your door. AOAA is a good place to ride and reasonable. $25 for 1 day, $10 for each additional day. Mike

Spent the weekend at Anthracite Outdoor Adventure area and camped at the Trailhead Campground. This campground is next to the trails so you can just ride over to the trails. AOAA has about 311 miles of trails on 6,500 acres of land. All kind of terrain depending on what you like.

If you know the make of the bulb you can go to headlightexperts.com and find a LED version Mike

I would check the battery to make sure it is good, should last longer then a week without running it. You could also have a parasitic draw on the battery.

I also agree about disabling a safety feature. Removing the airbag might cause a problem when the car is recalled since it was removed. It also may not pass inspection with the airbag missing. I know in PA the airbag must be present to pass inspection. Since this is a known issue, I am sure there are Youtube videos in how to deal with this. Mike

I can't help you, the two machines I have that are carbed have automatic chokes. Have you tried searching Youtube for how-to videos? Mike

Some of the maintainers come with that connector so you have a quick way to attach the charger. No harm in attaching it. The only way it could have damaged the battery is if it overcharged it for a long time. (as in the charger is defective) you can check that by measuring the voltage on the battery with the charger attached. It should not exceed 14.5 volts. For a charger to "boil" out your battery, you would see over 17 volts. Mike

There are many choices for LED lights nowadays. Some LED light bars have both in one unit. Mike

Typically ATV incandescent head lights would draw about 35 watts each. If it used to have two lights, that is 70 watts. I would use a 50 watt LED light bar to be safe. That light bar will be far brighter then the original head lights and you would be safe that you won't overdraw the electrical system. Mike

Need to know the year of the machine. A good resource is https://www.countrycat.com/ You can bring up parts diagrams and you can download service manuals for free. Example of a diagram shown below. I picked a random year so don't go by this. Mike

Eventually they pick up mud and crap and will need to be cleaned out. I had my original WARN winch for 10 years and always worked well. I would take it apart every few years and clean it out. Sold it with the machine and it was still working well. One trick I use is when I am ready to wind the cable back on to the spool I use one of those battery jump boxes to power it to wind the cable back on. This way I can hold some tension on the cable so it lays on the spool better. Mike

Yes, Here is a good guide on how to take apart and clean a winch. This is an excellent guide with pictures. Over time the winch gears will pick up mud and crap and make switching from winch mode to freespool very hard. I have used this guide with good results. Mike Winch_cleaning_instructions_V3.pdf

I purchased this one and it seems to work better then what I had for maintaining the battery on the Jumping Jack trailer. I also found that this charger will work off the inverter that is built into my Tahoe. This gives me a means to charge the battery on the trailer if I run it down. My old charger would not work off the inverter. Mike

Its working out well for us. It is the 6 x 8 (Standard) trailer. Since I changed rims on my machine, loading and unloading has been fine. This model weighs 1,200 pounds with the trailer plus tent. Axle is rated for 3,400 pounds. Last year a friend was interested in buying one, so we test fitted his Polaris General on the trail and it fit fine. (This sized trailer is rated for 2,200 pounds on the deck) When he called for a price he was quoted $6,500 for this model. Now there are no longer any dealers on the East coast so what they told him is for $500 they would deliver it to his house. These are made in Salt Lake City Utah, on the west coast these are very popular with hunters and riders.

No, its just the camera angle for the second picture makes it look different. These pictures might be better, first one is with the SS rims, second with Arctic Cat Rims. Where the ramps go to load & unload, it changes how much room I have on the deck of the trailer which although does not look like much, makes a big difference. Mike

Yes, it moves the tires out about 2 inches. First picture is with the SS rims. Second is one after replacing them with standard rims. What is a bit deceiving is the new tires are also 1 inch wider then the older ones. Mike

I had those SS rims on my Cat, they look nice but they also offset the tires by 2 inches. It made it tricky to load / unload the quad because of setting up the ramps. The tires were on the edge with the Triton trailer and ramp placement for the jumping jack made it a tight fit with both quads on the deck. I removed the rims last year and went back to standard rims. Did you order the lug nuts for the rims? They are different the standard lug nuts. Mike

I have Maxxis Bighorns on my machines, a good all around tire, but your looking for more mudding time so it is probably not the best choice. Mike

You can cover all the trails in one day Mike Yes, June & July almost 6 years ago, that is why some of the trail numbers changed.

This video is their technical (rocky, ungroomed) trails. What is called 20-J,20-I is now called trail 28 and upper half has been groomed out. First part of trail 10 is now trail 12 and groomed, once you turn on the bridge, it is ungroomed and becomes trail 10 again. Trail 22 was partially groomed, the large rock area in the washout was plowed, still very technical, but no longer as intense as video shows.

I have a really old helmet style camera that still works. Remote lens is wired back to the main unit. Main unit also has a lens with a 10x optical zoom. I still use it since I ski, the main unit that has the battery stays warm inside my jacket. A few videos I made of the park:

First three digits should be "4UF" means its made in USA. Next two are year, Yours is "99" for 1999. Next digits are "ATV" The rest is the unique serial number for the machine. Newer smaller cats like my 2010 366, and 2017 Alterra start with "RBF" which means they are Kymco built. The rest of the VIN is the same. https://www.countrycat.com/country-cat-faq/technical-information/vin

The pictures of planes 10 and 11 are the Lost Trails park. The other areas I photographed, I did on foot. Most of my abandoned railroad pictures are done by hiking. Some of the pictures go back to 2004, many years before it became the park. Mike