I haven’t changed the oil in the dozer for a long time so today I loaded all the stuff in Hondo and drove on up to where the dozer was parked. I should of brought the dozer down as I had to drive back down the hill three times to get tools, to get the job done.
This was where I worked on the dozer.
Greasing
I brought up the grease gun so I greased all the fittings up.
Oil change
The oil change should of been easy but I didn’t have the right socket to get the drain plug off, so I drove on home to get it. But when I got back, I’d not gotten the right socket so I had to drive home again and got the right one this time.
I had another problem that caused me to make another trip home. I couldn’t get the oil filler cap off, so had to get a pipe wrench to loosen it up That’s the filler cap to the right of the oil filter. I did replace the oil filter with no problems. Sometimes they are stuck on but not this time.
I was happy to get all the work done on the dozer as it’s been needing it done for a long time.
Headed home
On the way home I went by my pond. The water level has dropped quite a bit as the springs are slowing down from the warm days we’ve been having. I don’t think it will go down far enough to dry it up.
Air filter
Once home, I blew the air cleaner out with air and put antiseize on the rusty threads on the clamp.
I coated the threads good with the antiseize so the clamp will work easier as I had a hard time getting it off as it was so rusty.
The engine takes nine quarts of oil, but the transmission takes nine gallons of oil.
Bob
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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.
Wowzer – how many quarts of oil does that monster require?
The engine takes nine quarts of oil, but the transmission takes nine gallons of oil.
Bob