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Terry

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  1. big pike, cool
  2. Do what headhunter said
  3. I’m hoping come Nov everything shows up in my bank. Cpp and old age supplement And then I can afford that ice cream cone I’ve been wanting
  4. https://www.boatingmag.com/gear/boatinglab-tests-fuel-stabilizers/ Fuel Stabilizers: Tested by BoatingLAB Do fuel stabilizers actually work? We put them to the test! By Randy Vance Updated: August 28, 2017 Pass the Gas With ethanol in the gas, fuel stabilizers are as essential to boaters who store fuel for months as they are to those who boat every week. It was bad enough that non-ethanol gas could turn to crud, gumming up the works. In the old pre-E10 days, a fuel filter would take out water that might invade your tank and you'd be good to go — as long as you stabilized the fuel for long storage periods. Now, however, ethanol is the oxygenator of choice in fuel and it loves to mix with water. Get more than 500 parts per million water in the fuel, and it bonds with all the ethanol and then plops to the bottom of the tank in a powerless blob. That's phase separation, and it takes the octane with it. If this crud even burns through the engine, it abrades injectors, nullifies the work of lubricants and causes catastrophic damage. It happens suddenly. A gallon of our test fuel turned into about three ounces of water/ethanol and 61 ounces of unusable 77-octane gasoline. That would have been nearly a half-gallon of the ethanol crud at the pickup of a 100-gallon tank. No wonder engines go bang. How We Tested For precision, and to work with quantities of fuel more suitable to a lab than a gas dock, we used metric, rather than U.S. liquid, volume measurement. We dosed 500 milliliters of untreated E10 fuel with excessive water to see how long it could hold off phase separation. Then we similarly overdosed eight 500-milliliter fuel samples, each of which was mixed with a different fuel treatment. To that treated fuel, we added water in 0.5-milliliter increments of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0 milliliters and noted the results. Phase separation began for all treated samples at 2.5 milliliters--0.5 percent or 12,500 ppm, proving the efficacy of using stabilizers. So at the end of our test, an average 25 milliliters of crud — 5 percent of the fuel supply — sank to the bottom of the graduated cylinders we used for testing. Goals and Findings Our goal was to discover which fuel treatment, applied to 87 octane E10 fuel, could stave off phase separation most effectively. Some don't specify an increase in the percentage of absorption. Some say it will double the absorbing quality of the fuel. We found very little difference between brands in preventing phase separation but did show definitively that fuel treatments can idiot the process. We also compared costs and rated ease of use based upon the bottle's method of providing a measuring device. Our test parameters did not include substantiating long-term oxidation prevention claims. The Fix New fuel stabilizers are formulated not just to stop varnishing, but also to mitigate the effects of phase separation. Lubrication is part of the mix too, and you can feel the viscosity of the fluids between your fingers. This is what helps lubricate parts and prevent corrosion, along with the ability of the products to idiot phase separation and keep small amounts of water in suspension. If phase separation does occur in a tank, the process is immediate, complete and irreversible.
  5. I tried sunsect but it didn’t last long enough for me. Maybe I wasn’t doing it right
  6. Good because a jack plate will not replace a tilt unit
  7. an hour walk....dang...... is the trail wide enough for an atv snowdog motorcycle dog sled
  8. great shots of the sun rise good luck tomorrow
  9. i had no trouble getting it insured
  10. Nice fish
  11. No drive it down the road in Innisfil
  12. i think there is a size limit I have not tried, but a couple of guys on a forum said they had no trouble getting them licensed I will check it out soon
  13. No it’s water cooled and is very warm in the winter.
  14. it is still licensed for the road ,but the atv tires make it illegal for roads ,so I think I will license it as an UTV soon
  15. That’s what I thought thanks
  16. I looked at the phots I posted and it didn’t show the detail the photos on my computer showed so here are some zoomed in shots
  17. thanks all I had no idea how to do it, so i watched youtube but thought they looked crappy took some ideas i had and some of their ideas and tried it I think i found a new business, finished two days ago and a utv owner and a guy with a truck has asked me how much to do theirs
  18. great job I was wondering about the two satellite dishes that far north is the angle too great to catch both sats on one dish or is it for greater signal strength
  19. mine IS a 660 yeah tracks would be the finishing touch
  20. its a Suzuki Carry right hand drive Japanese kei mini truck
  21. you bet it does
  22. yup and cheaper then buying a utv and adding heat ,windows, doors wipers and whatnot
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