[JD]

BigJohnson, welcome.

Those are 2000 model year sleds in the picture. Normally a machines model year is one year ahead of the year it was built. For example your sleds were built in the summer of '99 in order to be new for the '99-'00 season, and called '00. The body style is Gen II as driftpounder said.

 

[JD]

Originally posted by snowsoon
[br]How can you tell if your carbide runners are bad or not? Also is there anything you can apply to your steal skis that helps prevent rust....?

If any of the actual carbide is missing, that is bad. Some carbide runners have multiple 1-inch long pieces of carbide lined up to make a 5-inch, or 6-inch, or XX-inch carbide edge. Sometimes one piece of that will fall out. If one 1-inch piece falls out, that in and of itself is not horrible, but it makes the steel (non-carbide) part of the runner wear out faster. Sometimes really fast. Sometimes the steel wears down so much that there isn't much metal where the studs go through the ski to hold the runner on. If the runner is over half-way worn down, I would think about replacing it.

The bottom side of steel skis will eventually always rust, as paint does not last long there. Go down the trail a few miles, and it is gone. Let the sled sit in the garage a few days with melted snow on the skis, and the rust is back. Not much you can do about it. You can put ski skins on the skis, though. That is a plastic "skin" for the bottom side of the ski. The carbide bolts through it to the ski like normal.