Patent ID: 7252301

Claim:
A method for aligning a pair of skis on a snowmobile, the pair of skis including a first ski and a second ski, each of the first and second skis having a pivot axis, a front portion forward of the pivot axis, and a rear portion rearward of the pivot axis, one of the first ski and the second ski having a front recess at a first location on the front portion thereof, the other of the first ski and the second ski having a front alignment point at a location on the front portion thereof corresponding to the first location, one of the first ski and the second ski having a rear recess at a second location on the rear portion thereof, the other of the first ski and the second ski having a rear alignment point at a location on the rear portion thereof corresponding to the second location, the method comprising: measuring a front distance D 1 between the front recess and the front alignment point; measuring a rear distance D 2 between the rear recess and the rear alignment point; and readjusting the first and second skis to make D 1 equal to D 2 .