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My club has a '03 Bear Cat T660 Wide Track. First off I would like to say that when it's right it's a dream machine for work. It pulls like nothing we've used before, it's got all kinds of grunt, really a nice machine.
We use this machine primarily for grooming. This year we've had nothing but trouble with it grooming on cold nights, ie hard snow. The track doesn't seem to be capable of getting snow up on the heat exchanger, all of it shoots right out the back. I think it's a combination of track width and design coupled with slow speeds and of course the drag on the back.
It's getting VERY frustrating, last night we did about 15 miles of trails and I had to stop around a dozen times to let it cool off. With my T660 turbo I can get of the side of the trail to pick up some fresh snow when this happens but the Bear Cat just rides on top and doesn't really pick anything up.
All that being said we're not talking about running on ice here. We also run a Pantera 550 and it's had no problems what so ever picking up snow to keep it cool. I went for a ride with my turbo after getting done last night it it ran like a champ.
To me this seems like a pretty serious design flaw, I mean this is a work machine!
Anyone else have this problem?
K
We use this machine primarily for grooming. This year we've had nothing but trouble with it grooming on cold nights, ie hard snow. The track doesn't seem to be capable of getting snow up on the heat exchanger, all of it shoots right out the back. I think it's a combination of track width and design coupled with slow speeds and of course the drag on the back.
It's getting VERY frustrating, last night we did about 15 miles of trails and I had to stop around a dozen times to let it cool off. With my T660 turbo I can get of the side of the trail to pick up some fresh snow when this happens but the Bear Cat just rides on top and doesn't really pick anything up.
All that being said we're not talking about running on ice here. We also run a Pantera 550 and it's had no problems what so ever picking up snow to keep it cool. I went for a ride with my turbo after getting done last night it it ran like a champ.
To me this seems like a pretty serious design flaw, I mean this is a work machine!
Anyone else have this problem?
K