I recently purchased a package deal in which I got an 80, 81 parts, and 83 Liquifire. I drove all the way to MN from northern Illinois with the intent of picking up just the 83, but the guy gave me an AMAZING deal, and threw in the 80 and 81 parts sled for nothing. My dad and I went through and replaced the fuel lines, oil lines, cleaned the carbs, and cleaned the air cleaner on both the 80 and 83. The 83 is waiting on a new ignition box before I can get her going, but my dad and I got the 80 going tonight! I was so excited. Now the only problem is all the snow melted
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Here are a couple of pictures of my garage and my sleds... and the reason my mom cant wait for me to go away to college next year
Sleds I own
1974 John Deere JDX8. (SOLD)
1975 John Deere JDX4. (SOLD)
1977 John Deere Liquifire 440. (SOLD)
1978 John Deere Cyclone 340. (SOLD)
1980 John Deere Liquifire. (SOLD)
1983 John Deere Liquifire.
Rich is going to or already has mailed you the speedo drive assembly Paul, I gave it to him to give to you since he was going to stop by and see you after he swung by here, but you werent home so youll be getting that sometime. I do have a nice track, suspension, and drive shaft/sprockets from the 81, but I was planning on keeping those as back up parts for my 80 and 83. I would have kept the 81, but my mother flipped out when she saw the garage fill up with sleds. In fact, she JUST found out about the 80 liquifire.. after I got it home I towed it up behind the tree by my shed in the backyard so she would not know about it
B) She found out and has nicknamed it 'the sneaky sled.'
Sleds I own
1974 John Deere JDX8. (SOLD)
1975 John Deere JDX4. (SOLD)
1977 John Deere Liquifire 440. (SOLD)
1978 John Deere Cyclone 340. (SOLD)
1980 John Deere Liquifire. (SOLD)
1983 John Deere Liquifire.
If it will make your mom feel better I can take some pics of ours stacked three high on pallet racking in the shed all thirty something of them......I tend to lose count!
You by chance didn't come through Windom Mn and stop at the Freedom gas station did you?????I don't remember the type of pickup but I noticed a load of liquifire's on the back,I turned around to visit with whoever it was thinking it was more than likely somebody on this site but they were pulling out and heading south on hwy's 60 and 71
Mark- It must have been someone else, as my dad and I drove up on an Isizu flat nose diesel loading truck :ph43r: That thing was actually pretty sweet. It topped out at 75mph.. just cruising on the highway at 75mph the turbo was just screaming the entire time. Btw Rich, I just paypal'd you.
Sleds I own
1974 John Deere JDX8. (SOLD)
1975 John Deere JDX4. (SOLD)
1977 John Deere Liquifire 440. (SOLD)
1978 John Deere Cyclone 340. (SOLD)
1980 John Deere Liquifire. (SOLD)
1983 John Deere Liquifire.
hey nice Cyclone, we got one the same. As for the Garage, your priorities are straight.
The only thing, you could loose is the car and make room for more sleds, or toys and
add 4 or 5 goatpaths thru all the junk you collect.
Glad to see them indoors. My Cyclone only spends a few nights a year outside up north
the rest of it's non-riding time is inside my shop. It was rescued from a certain death as only
Jamie Pelton could inflict on it. Luckily a ski broke the week before I bought it or it would have
been totaled. Other than a tear in the seat and a little bellypan damage it is near mint.
Glad to see you a Deere Nut
Nice collection you have going on there Boost. Look at it this way, you could have a garage band or a meth lab in there instead of harmless sleds! Just kidding, but the logic of "at least I am only working on cars, sleds and tractors instead of partying" did have some traction with my mom when my brother and I dragged home Buicks, pickups, sleds and Deere 2-cylinder tractors. Dad always understood though!
Keep up the good work,
-Rainville
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