Ski shimming

[giddy up go]

I have recently bought a 2007 RTX and I put 120 studs in the track and a set of woody dueley's 6 " on the ski's everyone is talking about shimming the ski's
#1- do I needed to?
#2- how do I do it (instructions would be nice)
#3 - much shim should I need
New to the 4 stroke family so any help is appreciated

 

[Viper_Dave]

This link will take you to the techpage thread http://www.totallyamaha.com/snowmobiles ... r_Shim.htm . I started doing this several years ago with Scott Bergstrom's recommendation. It REALLY works!!

 

[Daranello]

what are the plus and minus???

 

[Viper_Dave]

In my experience there are no negatives when shimming your ski's. Positives are lighter steering and elimination of darting.

 

[Reimond]

I was thinking what material to use between ski. When i changed my slides i had to cut them shorten. Cutted piece was perfect fit under ski sadle.

 

[sawsalesman]

Have you been riding in fields! Get that thing cleaned up man!!!

 

[Reimond]

I will during this week. We had grass-drags...

 

[sawsalesman]

I was just messing with you. I like the idea for the shims. No snow in Finland yet?

 

[Reimond]

North part has just a little so it's getting here in any day

btw. I also glued those parts with auto-body glue (and filled that middle part under ski sadle)