Bombardier SV200 Rebuild/Repair

We purchased this 1972 Bombardier SV200 in Wisconsin for our private use to groom our roads and trails on private property last spring. The cat ran fair but needed some extensive work to get her back in shape for another 20 years of grooming operation. It is a unique cat with a Valley Engineering fold up trail drag on the back and a 6 way Valley U blade on the front.

Here is a pic of the "old girl" looking tired and worn last spring.



We have went through the cat spending considerable dollars with the "Boggie Man" for such things as flexators, axles, track belts, bearings, heated mirrors along with many other parts/hours of labor to rebuild and make her shine again. This is a work cat and that was our basis for repair to make it run and work while looking good. We put her back in service this past week smoothing out my over snow road/trail home while my partners groomed about 5 miles to their mountain cabin with her last weekend. The SV runs great, looks good and does an excellent job keeping our over snow trails smooth.

Here are some pics of the "new lady" looking fresh and ready to work for a long time as I touched up my road/trail yesterday.

Looks great

I love the color !

That's a pretty handy groomer.

Very Nice, Just like the one I am working on now. Great job.

Looks great! It appears you've added those special windshield wipers.
I like your color, but I have to admit I'm partial to yellow.

looks good looks like a work horse and yes i like the color to snow trac red

What is the width of your tracks, and what is the hight of the cleats? I have a 75 muskeg carrier that when it's in deeper snow you can't steer with the standard muskeg tracks.

dpaulson, The Skidozers and Muskegs have similar track area on the ground but Muskegs, particularly Carriers, usually weigh more and would sink in farther which makes them harder to steer.
Just your solid tires weigh something like 50 pounds (guessing!) each more than air tires and you have twice as many as a Skidozer.

If you pack trails every time it snows, you may have better luck !

Where are you located ??

the muskeg's are geared around work and built bullet proof if you needsnow transportation you might want to look at a snow spacific vehicle your unit uses brakes to steer deeper grousers will no doubt improve the preformance but with brake steering i think your preformance is still going to suffer. with a rig that weigh's that much.