Not too broken

No... not my engine... my moral. It rained for about 20 hours yesterday into today, and has been above 35 for like 3 days. Just a week ago, Stout's campus was entirely white. Now, there is green everywhere. I'm not calling out the end of the snowmobiling season, since there will be more snow eventually. It's just nice to have my decision to trade engines backed up by another variable.

I am starting to find parts for cheap on DooTalk. I plan on just buying some things here and putting it all together this summer. I hope to be living in River Falls so that I can work on it in the Hartleben's garage with Lucas. I'm actually excited to get going on it...and also to break in the engine once it's done! I've never had to do that before, but I can assure you it will be done right. I now have some more tools to work on the sled with, thanks to Lindsey! She got me metric hex sockets and torx sockets for our one year anniversary. They will definitely go to use.

I have also made the decision to change oils for the 800. I am going to use Phillips 66 - Injex oil. It has a lot of the same properties as Blue Marble, but about a 3rd of the price. I found a 6 gallon case for about $90! Blue Marble is 4 gallons for $150. That will be a nice change and much less burden. I plan on selling my remaining 2 gallons of Blue Marb for $35 apiece... which nearly pays for my 6 gallon case of Injex! How cool!

I will be getting my case welded soon by a guy in Menomonie and purchasing some parts... Here is a picture of the very intelligent previous owners JB-Weld on a hole in the case. Don't quote me on this, but i'm sure that's why this side blew.