skidud
Veteran
What clutching/gearing changes are needed to ride a 2006 Attak in Snowy Range (8000 - 10000 feet above sea level). Our sleds are turning 10,800 RPM's at 1000 feet above sea level now. We will be out there for a week and would like our sleds to run good. Any suggestions.
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snowATTAKer
Extreme
Yamaha says to remove the rivets from the clutch and change I believe the top gear and chain. During my week long long trip in January to Wyoming I just removed the rivets. I also had the mountain skis. I think next year I probably will not remove the rivets. I have read on this site of some of the guys not doing anything to there Attaks and riding out west.
Stock clutching sux huge in deep snow. My stock clutching pulled 10,700 rpm on hardpack at 1500' elevation. At 2600' in 3-4' powder I was lucky to hit 9000 rpm & struggled to stay on top. Remove rivets & gear down for sure.
snowATTAKer
Extreme
You are right on the rpm. My front end had no problem staying on top of the snow with the mountain skis. The bigest problem I ran into was the track trenching. I could have used more paddle on the track.
cameljockey
Pro
mine did not do so well in 28" of heavy snow. couldnt pull rpm, trench like hell, front end dove like scuba steve. more paddle and clutching and gearing is a must for me for the real deep stuff, powder skis wouldnt hurt either 
I run simmons skiis on mine & the front end gets on top of the snow fine. I was powder riding with F-7;crossfire 700; renegade 800; 600 doo sdi; 500 ss doo & my attak performed the worst of all sleds in real deep snow. it was emberassing but it redeemed itself on the lakes!
