No picture because I was an oily mess, but not a good day when you bust out your cherry picker for a future project. You go to test it out and it does not lift. You mess with it a bit... Manually lift the arm and it holds in the up position but bouncy. You open the pressure release to get it to go down and nothing happens. You bounce it a couple more times then POP! The plug comes out and you have a hydraulic geyser in the garage, soaking everything. Did I mention not a good day?
PS, I do have about 90% of it cleaned.
Guess if you look on the bright side. The 140lb engine I plan on using it with wasn't on the hook when this happened. It appears to be solid working now. We'll see how it works out here in a couple months. I'll test, I'm sure it needs more jack fluid.
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You're tellin me. Makes me a little concerned about using it, but I realized the "bounce" was due to gas build-up in the cylinder. I fear it got pressurized sitting in the back of my shed this summer. I think me raising the arm then putting pressure down was just too much. Possibly the plug was not in all the way too? Not sure.
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Well guys, I was going to set up a set of surprise prizes for the B/O top 3 winners. Today I was told that my group is no longer safe from rotating furloughs for possibly the next 3 months or more due to a union strike of 30000, the other 150000 will suffer. Going to be a tight next few months $$. I'm thinking Merry Christmas. Hopefully this is over soon so we can get back to our regularly scheduled life.
All scheduled vacation and tractor rides in the next 3 months are out the window.
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@RichieRichOverdrive and I are scheming a trip to Blue Holler this coming weekend for some Research and Destruction.
Going to test some 27x12-12 Maxxis Bighorn 2.0's against a pair of 27x8-12 of the same tire. I'd like to see if the larger surface area is better, or the narrower track width.
Hopefully then I'll be able to decide which set I will run next month at LCQ and (hopefully) TTC
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@MightyRaze that just makes your videos better if you just crank stuff out every day it gets stale, putting time in between videos and having a good time making them is what matters
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@RichieRichOverdrive I didn't know you where offering services like that or id been over quicker it's looling like im gonna have time open up soon im leaving my auto parts job because the lazy manager quit and we got someone active so i cant be lazy anymore i was riding it out while it lasted and reaping the benefits but stuff like that only lasts so long. In my case it lasted nearly two years
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@RichieRichOverdrive I didn't know you where offering services like that or id been over quicker it's looling like im gonna have time open up soon im leaving my auto parts job because the lazy manager quit and we got someone active so i cant be lazy anymore i was riding it out while it lasted and reaping the benefits but stuff like that only lasts so long. In my case it lasted nearly two years
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Aye man that time difference was kickin my butt. I'm a lil princess about my sleep lmao
Had an extremely productive weekend overall though. The more Rich looked at my tractor the more his OCD was wigging out. Bump stops, grille support, steering geometry, cleaned and tuned the carb, fixed the vacuum and oil leaks, fixed the head gaskets and did some head work in the process, re-engineered the throttle linkage and return spring, and drilled a hole through the muffler for a little more flow.