Snow Bird Chassis assembly Part 2

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 01:43 pm:

Progress of Snow Bird project.

Factory assembly drawings and instructions.
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Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 02:06 pm:

Forgot to add the Snow Bird Logo, This was before the F-S Mfg. Co.( Farm Specilty Mfg. Co.) name was changed to the ARPS CORP about 1933.


Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Derek Kiefer - Mantorville, MN on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 02:23 pm:

Yours appears to be the same but maybe later version as the one Dad has. Yours has a panhard bar to control the sideways movement of the middle axle, where Dad's has a heavy steel bar bent in a "U" shape with each end sticking through a hole in the lower bracket.

Are you going to do a gear-reduction at all? We found ours to be hard to get into high-gear unless we could get on a hard-packed icy and smooth surface. We don't have wheels on the front though, just skis, so there was a lot of extra friction to overcome.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 05:06 pm:

Derek

If you can send me some pictures or post them here I can Identify the Manufacture and the year built. I have a large amount of factory and advertise information on all three co.in my files. Pictures of---Track style, Secondary axle and ski and spindle styles.

Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Derek Kiefer - Mantorville, MN on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 05:40 pm:

Our tracks are identical to yours, and the skis are the same as the drawing on the "parts list" above.

The only differences I can see between yours and ours (besides the wheel/ski spindle) is that yours has the panhard bar, and your brackets that connect the axle to the tension rod appear to be a forging or casting, where ours is a flat plate.

It's been about 12 years since I assembled it on my car, so there may be other details I'm missing as well. Sorry, I don't have any better pictures, this one is all I have on my computer.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - 08:52 pm:

Peter

This is from the orig. Factory drawings by B.F.. Arps Dec 10 1926 and I think it is what you have. Mr. Arps owned F-S mfg. and ended owning Snowmobile and Snow Flyer, he produced these attachments( with many modifications) until the start of WW II.

Bob


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