Snowmobile skipping
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Snowmobile skipping, snowmobile watercross, snowmobile skimming, water skipping or puddle jumping is a sport and/or exhibition where snowmobile racers hydroplane their sleds across lakes or rivers.
Position of the snowmobile while skipping
Snowmobile skipping right after leaving shore. Note the rider is wearing a life jacket
Carburetor
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A carburetor is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine. The primary method of adding fuel to the intake air is through the Venturi e
Snowmobile skipping
…the rider backs out of the throttle or the sled bogs or floods out, the sled will sink. A sunk sled is able to be revived by cleaning water out of the carburetor, exhaust, spark plugs, and replacing the fuel. The front of the sled is pitched upwards as riders commonly do in deep mountain powder snow. The Grantsburg…
Two-barrel downdraft Holley 2280 carburetor
1979 Evinrude Type I side draft carburetor
A - airhorn B - choke plate C - external bowl vent D - choke pull-off E - throttle body and mounting base F - float bowl G - fuel inlet H - idle mixture adjusting screw J - vacuum nipples K - fast-idle cam L - throttle lever M - idle speed adjusting crackscrew N - internal bowl vent
Holley "Visi-Flo" model #1904 carburetors from the 1950s, factory equipped with transparent glass bowls