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Thanks guys for the input. Who makes the Tundra? Never heard of them but I will check them out. I am in the market for strictly a utility sled to haul gear.
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my 2 cents i own a 87 alpine a 95 bearcat 440 fan and groom trails for the local snowmobile club with a wt skandic and a swt skandic unless your towing a house a bearcat 95-2000 will work fine get a fan cooled one liquids over heat if the snow is minimal skandic wt is 20 inch wide swt is 24 inch pretty heavy if you get stuck depends on what your doing wider the track more pulling power bearcat is probably cheapest guess whatever is the right price is what you'll buy my opinion only bearcat is easiest on fuel but i love the alpine the best but it's not for the trails
I don't think you'll be able to find any 660 turbo's for under $2,500. Good luck though. One thing no one had mentioned is you may want to consider is what dealers are close. If you need a part soon, you'll have to drive to one of them.
If you're up for a drive you can check out www.snowmobileauction. com. The best deal you'll find on one would probably be at Hay Days, but that's a year away. The swap meets around the midwest can have good deals as well. There's always sites like craigslist and sledswap. You won't steal one on Arcticchat or hardcoresledder ( at least until the snow is gone ), but you can also look up more about the sled. I've rode all makes of sleds except Polaris, but I'm not familiar with the 660T. I would STRONGLY advise looking it up on Arcticchat or HCS, before buying one, especially a first year model. I'm a fan of Arctic Cat, you could look into a Wildcat Longtrack Efi, or the same in a zr for not a lot of money. Unless you have a death wish and a good insurance policy, stay away from the big block doubles and triples.
looks like you want your cake and eat it too. Don't think you will find a sled that will do everything listed. The newer tundras will be the best all around sled you can get. They will run right up to 80-85 mph(if you believe speedo) Haul all you need and light enough to get out when stuck. I had several super jags and liked them very well. They only ran 45 wide open, That was fine. They were great in the bush. Then I got my first tundra. Believe it had a 250 single cylinder engine. It was so old it was orange. I was hooked. It would only do 40 wide open, But would go pretty much anywhere. I found a newer tundra 2 lt at auction and bought it. Never would have anything else. I have rode scandics and they are heavy feeling to me. Save your money. Winter is almost here. Go try some out and decide what you like. Good luck finding what you want, I am sure you will in time. Steve
avoid any arctic cat with a 550cc star (fuji) engine. clutch side crank seals let go for no reason other than they're probably female. the bearcat with the 440cc is a fine sled but, will never be a ski-doo. go with the yellow sled.
arctic cat uses suzuki motors,polaris used to use fuji/ star motors but they are now liberty /polaris ,550 is liquid theliquid 340/440 are fan,polaris 550 is a fan