I finally went off the deep end and bought not one, but two rotary snowmobiles! They are both 1973 Evinrude RC-35-Q rotary sleds. The one I'll be using is an early production model built in 02/1972 and the engine is number 00150 which makes it the very last engine from the first production run of engines. The parts sled is a later model built in 11/1972. These were quite the snowmobiles for their time. They are equipped with electric start, reverse, and a cigarette lighter! The engines were designed and built by OMC in house and were rated at 35HP. Time for some pics. I'll have to take some better ones when I have a little more time.

 

 

" They are equipped with electric start, reverse, and a cigarette lighter!" That is pretty damn fine for the vintage. My old sleds didn't have any of those features. You got a cord, and you yanked the sucker and HOPED it started before you ran out of gas lol

 

Hahah you bought another?

I was at my parents farm today and got my old 1969 Sno-Fury running, went bombing around the yard setting up the carb!


Rotary sled races this winter for sure!

 

For sure Joe, it's on! Ya I randomly found this other sled for sale in Clinton for cheap so I snapped it up for parts. Good old kijiji pulling through for me again. The second sled actually came with a can of the original Evinrude Rotary Combustion premix! It's strange looking stuff.... I would like to figure out what is in it exactly. I'm thinking that the Idemitsu premix is similar to it. What do you use in your sled for premix Joe? The sachs engine is fairly similar in design to the evinrude engine.

 

I tore apart that 303 Sachs from the Arctic Cat Panther and look what I found!





But the re-coil worked awesome on my Sno-Fury Sachs engine. I'll try to post a video of it running today.

I just use normal 2-stroke oil from Cdn Tire. mix it 40:1

 

No wonder I couldn't get that sucker to turn over...