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Diesel Snow Mobiles for sale
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Yellowknife is the headquarters for the Northern military region. It is both a dreaded and a highly sought after posting. If you like snowmobiling and ice fishing , well you can do it 6 months straight ! I have friends who were posted there saying it was the best times in their lives. Others, whom i suspect of not enjoying winter have said it is not fun . In summer there are the bugs. I have always enjoyed shorter stints in those more remote Northern areas and enjoyed every minute before going back South. Anyway , a diesel snowmobile ? Who the hell would want that ? Any insight ?
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A limited production diesel snowmobile in arctic conditions....what could be wrong with that?
I would suggest the snowmobiles themselves are problematic. I can't think of any fleet of machinery that DND has sold (with operating hours only in the double digits) that is only 3 or 4 years old. Mind you, I can think of a couple fleets that should have been sold off after that time period. I have a friend posted up there. I'll contact him and see what the story is on these machines. |
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My own experience in the arctic (as a mechanic....I was up in Alert for a boxtop about 36 years ago, and also up to whitehorse for an ex a few years after that) was just over 20 years ago when the battery I was tasked to went to repulse bay. We brought up a fleet of the Bombardier Alpine snowmobiles. While the locals appreciated the hauling capacity of these machines, they were not in local use. All the machines up there were primarily Yamaha or Kawasaki, which had no problems starting. For the Canadian machines, it required removing the carb at night and bringing it into the tent. In the morning, you warmed it up, quickly re-installed it, and used the pull start to get things going. Forget about the electric start.....that was a fantasy.
As a mechanic, I had brought one of those trigger propane torches along. When they could not get a machine going, I would bring the torch into the tent, warm up the cylinder over the coleman stove, place it in my parka and head out to the machine. By preheating the intake manifold and carb with the propane torch, good results were achieved. The reason for putting the torch on the coleman stove? Propane does not vaporize at -30 and we were way way below those temps. If you google Dew D900 Snowmobile there seems to be a lot of reading available for them. From DEW: https://www.dewengineering.com/case-...900-snowmobile I would think that these diesel machines would be very reliant on glowplugs. The army went to a one fuel concept back in the 90s, which meant diesel. There were exceptions, and this would appear to be an attempt to meet that concept, along with the availability of JP as Robert mentions. . Note the ads for the machines state they were pulled from service in 2017, so most likely they have one season of operation, but possibly up to three. |
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Looking at the Dew Engineering brochure, it looks like a towbar-like device on the rear of the snowmobiles that might be capable of attaching a pintle hook. Is this correct? And would they tow a wheeled trailer, or sleds?
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Robert.
It was not that long ago diesel fuel at the local gas station was selling 20 cents or more per litre below regular gasoline, but it is now close to 20 cents above premium gas in some locations. Perhaps when the diesel snowmobile was first thought of, it was still a cheaper fuel and that factored into the decision to build them as well. But you are right, preheat for ignition at minus 40??? Yikes!!! David |
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I don't think the cost of the fuel is much of a consideration, but rather the logistics (diesel uses a lot less fuel than a gasoline vehicle) and the safety. A good read on the trials of these machines: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/...804709_A1b.pdf It may well be that these machines were used for the trial ex and then disposed of. Canada bought 20 and there are currently 11 listed on CADC. |
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