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[LedlieLogs]

Really cool Amberwood. Looks great! Please take lots of pics as you go through her. Good Luck.

[amberwood]

camera is ready to go. just writing out the job list this morning..lots of minor but time consuming tasks.  One thing i dont have to work on is the brakes..air/hydraulics rated to stop 10 tonnes....almost put you through the windcreen.

Anyone have a brilliant idea on cleaning 100 litres of "dirty" petrol. Not sure what the contaminant is as yet but the engine surely does not like to run off that very full tank! Dirt is Ok, that can be filtered out mechanically..but water?

DTR

[Mooseherder]

Purty close to Woodmizer Orange ain't it.
Call it da Woodmizer Truck.
or da Bibby Truck.

[farmerdoug]

Drygas will absorb the free water and allow it to burn with the gas.  It is either 100% methanol or ethanol.   Works great for drying up the moisture in the fuel system.  They make it for gas and diesel.  Not sure which you mean by 'petro'.

Farmerdoug

[amberwood]

yep its orange at the moment.....small pile of 2 pack epoxy in white is being delivered this week....have to love supplier "samples". The paint looks alot better in the photo than in reality! Needs a good rub down, a few of the larger dings knocked out and a really good coat of high fill primer, then the epoxy. I will be using marine grade polysiloxane. Not quite the gloss of auto paint but MUCH harder finish and it is free!

"petro" typo for petrol...lots of it. averaged 8mpg yesterday..WOT flat out at 75-80 kph that is 30L/100km for those of us who think in metric. fingers crossed that improves some for normal use puddling around holding up traffic.

I have had  a simliar suggestion here at work of just adding one litre of methylated spirits per 100L of petrol to allow the water to burn..might be a good start. I have never seen Drygas...maybe it is just metho? If that fixes it there is $112 less the dollar for the metho back in my pocket!

DTR

[theorm]

"I have had  a simliar suggestion here at work of just adding one litre of methylated spirits per 100L of petrol to allow the water to burn..might be a good start."

Amberwood,
Another trick is to strain the gas through a chamois skin. The gas goes through, but the water stays behind. Something I picked up from bush pilots. Because sometimes you are hundreds of miles from the nearest gas station and all you have is water in your gas.... A chamois cloth is small and handy to have in your tool box. They can be found in car care catalogs.

Theo

[amberwood]

Theo..great idea! and I have one on the shelf! Def a try on that idea. So simple.

DTR

[scsmith42]

Amberwood, siphon off the diesel, filter it, and allow it to sit for a day in a 55 gallong drum.  Then, pump the top 50 gallons or so out of the drum.  Be careful not to stir up the fuel when you're pumping it back out.

The water will settle to the bottom of the drum - no need to add anything.  Just don't stir things up when you're pumping it back.

Scott

[Tom]

What I do is siphon the bottom couple of gallons off of the bottom of the drum first, putting it in another container where I can see the water.  You can even tilt the drum to get the water to run to a "corner".   That's a wierd thought.  Corner of a 55 gal drum.

The rest of the fuel that was on top is clear. 

The fuel in the smaller container can "skimmed" again, after it has sat awhile.

[amberwood]

The final process..

1.siphon off the "lower" 5litres of fuel/water, observe for settleing of water.
2.mechanically filter the remaining fuel through a inline filter, then through a chamois/funnel filter into jerry cans..all using the retofitted high flow electric pump
3.add a litre of metho to the tank, along with the 95 litres of filtered fuel

Good to go

thanks all

DTR

[amberwood]

OK here is the first lot of photos. Strip down to minimum..then replacing the rear toolboxes as they were full of rust and doors dont shut..fitted a couple of late model buckets off ebay $30! and a pair of new seatbelts $$$$ not ebay but better than faceplanting the steering wheel. Four new tyres to pass roadworthy..WHICH we have done hooray! Off to get the new rego @9AM Monday. Currently in primer with a little white..refer to paint gun incident. Out with the brush tomorrow.

OH and once we removed and sold on the firetank (ebay thanks very much) we discovered most of the decking was rotted out. Replacement timber should not be a problem!







more in the gallery

DTR

[Coon]

Looks like you're doing a great job on your unit.  Hope you get it finished soon so you can start hauling logs with it. 

You might want to get a razorblade paint scraper for when you take the newspaper off of the windows.  It is amazing how overspray and leaching of the paint will occur with newspaper.  What you should have used is meat wrapping paper as it has a glossy side to it that won't let any seapage through.