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    Kubota Diesel Motorcycle

    Re: Diesel Motorcycle If you have access to a lathe its easy to put a clutch on a kubota engine. not sure how common snowmobiles are where you are but here its no sweat to get an old one for cheap or even free. all I done was cut the taper off the crank, machine a sholder onto it, weld it into...
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    Mods #3&4 Forward LED light bar and Alley Lights

    Thanks for the link wildfire, I have it book marked. I can only imagine how much you get asked to come back here and work in this town is growing like crazy and changing A lot, we even have a underpass now going under the train tracks between lab city and wabush becasue there is so much traffic...
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    Mods #3&4 Forward LED light bar and Alley Lights

    great job as usual ! I am amazed at them light's I am going to have to get one, or maybe one for everything I own haha. I know what you mean by you never know when we are going to get snow, were supposed to get some monday over here in labrador!
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    what diesel additives do you use?

    where I am up in canada we get winter diesel that already has a anti jelling agent in it so I don't run anything in my fuel normally, however when I get a engine that has been sitting for a long time I mix in ATF with my fuel and I find it cleans out the fuel system very well. I even use it in...
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    Block heaters

    I live in one of the colder parts of canada, it was minus -35C/-31F today, and everyone up here runs block heaters that go into to frost plug hole. only time we use any different is when a block heater is not available. we also install two block heaters sometimes on bigger motors or a block...
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    fuel tank

    how bad is it? if its not to bad I heard you can plug it real good, fill it with the coldest water you can get and heat up the tank, the water will expand and pop out your tank. do not heat it to much tho, think of the old steam ships , trains etc blowing up back in the day. you don't want to...
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    question on a d905 engine.

    1800 rpm and 3600 rpm is for 60 hrtz power depending on how many pole's are in the generator, 50 hrtz is 1500 and 3000 rpm. the engine revs smoothly to 3000 no problem so I'm going to run it and see what happens, it was a free motor from a scraped lighting plant so if it blows it wont be so bad...
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    Kubota on Ice

    good to see people from from the island are still as welcoming as they always were, I'm from labrador myself but my old man is from grand falls. If I'm out on the island this or next fall to get a moose I might have to stop by I'd love to se your shop and work in person you seem to very nice...
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    question on a d905 engine.

    Hello all, I'm building a diesel snowmobile with a kubota engine. The snowmobile is a 1962 (I think) bombardier alpine (valmont technically) that I have a D905BG put into along with a gearcase from a yamaha VK540 becasue it has low range unlike the original. my question is can you rev a BG...