Last winter my brother borrowed my M7 to go out west. We had just got home from a trip to CookeCity and the sled ran great drove it on the trailer they got out to West Yellowstone went to unload it and it wouldn't start or sometimes would start but would die right away. So at this point he calls me trying to diagnose over the phone which isn't really easy we try a bunch of things go so far as getting the owner of Golden West(Amazing Guy) to let them thaw it out in a heated garage in case there was ice in the Smart Valves as one dealer said to try oh and the local cat dealer was no help. At one point they got it so if he was standing it would run but sitting down it would die so were completely confused and he gives up rents a sled for the rest of the trip and pulls it back on the trailer. They get home pull it in the shop and it starts right up. I'm getting really confused turns out the throttle block was loose twisting on the bars and the throttle cable would get to the point were it wouldn't close causing the safety sensor to kill the sled. Anyway I've gone on to long I have never been able to get it tight since I put the plastic Arctic Cat handgaurds on.

So I decided yesterday to pull it apart and see whats causing the problem. The throttle block has recessed holes for the bolts to tighten it up and the mount just clamps to the outside of the throttle block with bolts going into the old throttle block holes clamping it all togethor. The problem is the old recessed holes the mount just keeps bending down into these holes so it won't stay tight unless you really tighten like we did yesterday and then the bolts pull all the way through the mount. So we fixed the problem by just making some bushings to fill the recessed holes up so the mount can't bend into it. Now with the mounts on I can get the throttle block really tight like it was before problem fixed. If anyone is interested I can try and take some pics. Cat could easily fixed the problem by either including bushings or molding a bushing onto the mount to fill the hole.

I am interested.... I have the same guard mounts, think I understand what you mean, but as always a few pictures are golden.

Thx.
Mark

I'll try and take some tommorow.

Here are a couple pics not the greatest. The pieces on the bolts are the bushings that sit flush in the hole. The mount is my old one after the bolts tore all the way through them.

of course I'd have to have that kind of mount too... I've noticed that it was never really that tight to begin with..... I had problems with the brake side mount they had for that mounting kit. I ended up using 2 different mounting kits.

I had a set on my Fcat before I got this and never had any trouble with thoose. Go to a hardware store and they should have small round plastic bushings that will work to make the spacers. Mine probably wasn't really wrecked tell I decided I would tighten tell it wasn't loose.

Thx for the update and the post.... I'll have to check mine out b4 the season !