Patent ID: 7836984

Claim:
A snowmobile suspension and drive train for supporting a snowmobile chassis and for guiding and driving an endless loop track, the snowmobile suspension and drive train comprising: a) an endless loop snowmobile track supported by a suspension; b) the suspension and drive train including a frame housed within the endless loop track, the frame having mounted thereon a rear drive shaft attached to rear track drive sprockets for operably driving the track; c) the suspension and drive train further including a guide means for guiding the track around the suspension and drive train; d) wherein the suspension and drive train including a drive means, housed within the endless loop track, for operably driving the rear track drive sprockets at a rear track position wherein the drive means being operably driven at a track intermediate position by a front driven shaft receiving power from a motor; e) wherein the frame includes an upper frame pivotally connected at a pivot point to a horizontally oriented lower frame housed within the endless loop track in scissor relationship, such that the suspension and drive train movable between a raised position and a lowered position.