Safari restoration

[Sir_warden 0]

I'm hoping to find some help. A few years back my grandpa and I got an old safari 399 sled running. He's now past away and I'm wanting to restore the sled but I cant find a replacement drive belt. It's a gts718 but I can't find any cross reference for size or replacement. 

[ZXT 2,394]

28 minutes ago, Sir_warden said:

I'm hoping to find some help. A few years back my grandpa and I got an old safari 399 sled running. He's now past away and I'm wanting to restore the sled but I cant find a replacement drive belt. It's a gts718 but I can't find any cross reference for size or replacement. 

Parts for those appear to be pretty scarce. I've only come across one place that -might- have that belt. Looks like an older site so it may not have been updated. EDIT: I'll PM you the link.

Edited October 26, 2019 by ZXT

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 Warden.

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[Stepney 2,314]

As an antique sled buff I feel you on the belt..

 

Gates 26vrv01, and Gates 6002 are crosses. 
The WH's were actually built by Snoflite. Found the GTS718 listing as a cross reference to that name.

I think my Homelite sled used the same belt I'll dig around. 

[CasualObserver 3,406]

1 hour ago, Stepney said:

The WH's were actually built by Snoflite.

Not quite true... Wheel Horse bought Sno-Flite from CE Erickson Mfg in Des Moines, IA. Wheel Horse finished the late 69 models as Sno-Flites before rebranding them as Wheel Horse Safari for the 70 model year. Safari snowmobiles are all Wheel Horse Products Inc productions. 

Here's a screenshot of the 69 Sno-Flite parts manual from Wheel Horse I have.

 

and here's the 70 manual cover.

 

Many years back when I was researching the snowmobile line I ended up emailing and talked on the phone with the retired Wheel Horse employee who was sent from South Bend to Des Moines after they bought the company... he was their manual writer... he told me about how he had to lay out all the parts to photograph and make the parts list... as there is no isometric drawings of the snowmobiles... just old-school parts laid out and numbered.

[Stepney 2,314]

Absolutely correct, as still a bit asleep when I wrote that, and had something else sled related on my mind. Was thinking homelite/polaris.