it was drizzling today, so there would be no welding on the shed frame.
New battery
But the new battery came in for the old quad runner yesterday, so I needed to get it installed. I knew it wasn’t exactly the one I needed but thought I could make it work. This battery was a bit shorter than the one that I needed so I cut that little wooden block to make it a bit taller so I could use the fastener to hold the battery in place.
The little wooden block worked just fine.
Test ride
With the new battery installed I took it for a ride around the yard to see how it worked. I found the brakes needed some work as they were sticking because all the brake levers needed freeing up and lubed a bit.
Won’t shut off
When I went to shut the quad off, it wouldn’t shut down with the key or the kill switch. I studied the electrical diagram but couldn’t determine why it was doing that. I used the choke to kill it and that will have to work for now until I figure that one out.
Checking the drive chain and brakes
I also wanted to check out the chain drive for adjustment and it needed to be lubed up too, so the tires came off to get to the chain and all the brake levers.
The drive chain is under that rusty thing there which needed to come off to get to the chain. The chain was good but needed some lube on it so I took care of that. Some black paint would have been good on the chain guard, but I’m out of that for now. The brakes were on the other side so I worked on the brakes and oiled up all the lever pivot spots until the brakes started to work better. I got them to work pretty good, but using them some should improve them even more.
The drizzle mostly let up in late afternoon, so I took the rig for a ride up in the hills to load some rocks for some stream crossings. I’ll need a lot more rock to improve these crossings.
Rocking road crossings
I put one load here and found I need another bar across the front of the rack as I lost some rocks when I put the brakes on coming down the roads on hills.
This is the other crossing where I put a load of rocks which also needs lots more rocks.
The test ride was successful, so I went on home for a nap.
Long time “fly on the wall” of your blog. I’ve still got 10 years to go till retirement, but when I do I hope I can be at least as halfway entertaining to someone as your are to me. Thanks for sharing your daily adventures.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Long time “fly on the wall” of your blog. I’ve still got 10 years to go till retirement, but when I do I hope I can be at least as halfway entertaining to someone as your are to me. Thanks for sharing your daily adventures.