alan bechard

Autographed as a matter of fact

Hoping it all works out well, The Storz family are great folks and wishing them all the best and a speedy recovery.

SWMBO = She who must be obeyed I have to limit my activitie because I have grown attached to living in a house and eating food. The kids Whine a lot if you don't feed them for two or three days

Hi John, I am here, kind of in the shadows. Busy as I can be with life, working hard it seems on the Al Bechard Quick road to bankruptcy while working your butt off. I love the trials community, and truly miss it, but between work, SWMBO's business, house, shop, paintball, Kayaking and 20 million other pursuits, Trials has pretty much slid to the back burner, bikes have not been out in a LOOOONG time. But, Tues my BIL is coming in from Germany and wants to ride, so a trip to TTC is in my immediate future. The scary part for me, is that these topics rehash all too often. I must say, the boots and helmet is something I stole from Ed or Doug as well, but I still believe it to be very accurate. Folks who are not exposed to motorsports about fall over when they hear the bottom end costs involved in getting started. In the FWIW I still think the best way is to get folks out on a bike. It is funny, this week, a guy saw me wearing a Trials T shirt and started asking me about it, and wants to try riding, and one guy from work want's to come out and try it as well, so who knows. I am here though if I can ever be of any assistance to folks. Alan Bechard trialsalan AT Gmail dot com

Cope, I know what you mean. Neo, glad you got it sorted out, nothing quite like working on something a whole bunch, to realize you missed something simple, Not that I have ever done it, I think Cope told me about it once I will have to forever Ban SWMBO from seeing this thread, as she will ask your adress and send you our flight # as what better reason to go One day we need to come visit your country though. Glad it is straight.

Why thanks Cope (I think) heehee Just had the top off the fuel control on the backhoe It still runs,,,,,,

To answer last question first, good autmotive supply house should be able to provide you with dye, glasses etc. I usually use Brake cleaner, talcum powder and patience. (Patience is always in short supply at my house) I would look real close at what cope said first, are the bolts tight. I would also look to see if the bolts did not come loose, and you hit the pan hard enough to shift the two cases relative to each other. I have not seen this yet on the sherco, but I have seen it on other older bikes, and I am guessing that your bike has hit the pan a time or two. Have you read the instructions on the web on how to do it? I would have them printed out beside me when I was doing it. It sounded as I read it like you were saying you were going to do it in frame, maybe I am reading wrong, but anyway I do not think it can "PRACTICLY" be done in the frame. Not impossible, just not at all the way I would do it. You will need a 1/2" impact gun or clutch holder. A deadblow rubber mallet / brass mallet is very nice at times. Take your time, watch for shims, washers etc. Touch things and make sure you are not looking at a shim, stuck on a case with oil, that when you later wash the case falls off in the Parts washer and gets lost. I have a square of 2 X 4 lumber about 12" on each side. It is probably my handiest tool to work with the engines. It allows you to set the engine down at about any angle, and have it be stable and firm. A handy thing to do is to have a digital camera handy (and an agreeable kid to take pictures so You don't get the Missus camera oily) Take lots of pictures, especially anytime you say to yourself, oh, I will remember the purple widget goes on the right.............................. You wont. They are very straight forward, and easy to work on. I would say go for it, but all the better if you have someone experienced and confident at your side who knows the difference between stuck, hit it harder, and you forgot and left a bolt in. Oh, and when it comes to putting it back together I like to grease the gaskets. If it does not "slide" together, you have it wrong, when you find yourself saying I will just draw it down into place, you are wrong. Not quite sure how to explain the difference in writing, because you can use the bolts to draw it down, but it has to "feel" right. Again, that is where an experienced hand on your shoulder can really give you some confidence.

Well, you know if Ringo was talking, he was talking crap Just kind of his style I would say. Wish we had some more of Sendero's dissertations, and I cant think of the other guys name with the gunslinger avatar right now. How's the family?

Who woke you up out of a Stupor

We just do green EG standard fully formulated. The newer stuff too me, was to fix a problem, that was not a problem, and then caused some real problems. I just want to look at folks and tell them good greif, pop your hood and have a little maintenance done before 5 years goes by. An ounce of prevention is definetely worth a pound of cure.

Most of the fuel / oil recyclers just go for a lowest common denominator blend such as a bunker fuel type deal, they would like your mixed stuff The most common places that I am aware of it being used is things like cement kilns and asphalt burners, they run some pretty "rough" fuels. Seperating them down in a distillery and recracking etc. is still a bit out there. That said, I think we used about 100 drums of re-refined 15/40 in the last three months. You crushing your filters and hot draining? I would think in Texas you could landfill them. After all, oil came from the ground Yes, most recycling definetely works better on scale. We do about 80,000 gallons a year of used oil. We recycled about 30,000 gallons (I think it was) of Antifreeze last year, we do it in house in a home brew system. One of my pet peeves are all the folks trying to do small batch antifreeze. No quality control, no outside checks, test strip checking at best, then the recycled product gets a bad name and that is very, very hard to overcome. We also in housed refrigerant for a while, but again, economy of scale it is cheaper to send it to the big seperators. Oh, and too the mystery fluid, we literally see it every day and depending on how certain we are of what it is determines our actions. We have had to actually TCLP some of the stuff to figure out what we were dealing with.

Hmmm, shows as the picture itself in my browser. Sometimes I hate computers. Anyway, it is my new processing tank for JP-8 recycling. Cone bottom Swirl / vortex seperation Tall narrow shape

It shows on mine, can anyone else see the picture?

I just had this built and installed to help me with our processes. Can't decide if I am going to call it the coffee pot, or put fins on it so it looks like a rocket Hmmmm, see if this pic works Should help me drop out contaminates. Most the stuff I deal with is not late model enough to worry about the Cat stuff anyway.

Filter well and cycle through at about 10% ratio, (one buddy is centrifuging it to clean it) Some say no harm, others scream of the "stuff" being bad etc. etc. I think I am going to go for an older cab forward Isuzu with simple injection pump so I can experiment more with that and the bio-diesel stuff. Not sure I am ready to feed my 99 stroke on it yet, afraid I cannot afford it if it spits it up. In the FWIW you should be getting paid for it when they haul it off, it is fairly easy to make bunker fuel, or fuel oil out of. I think we are currently getting about 40 cents a gallon. Added on edit http://www.clarustechnologies.com/manufact...lcat/index.html we looked at these and one from Baldwin as well, while it seems logical, with my customer I can see it now, every time something breaks on the truck, it would be because of that "black Fuel" and yes, it does turn it black. We do use their Titan (or tornado, whatever they call it today) and recycle pretty clean JP-8. So far I believe I have the only successful program doing that and bringing it back to full spec. M1A1 runs about 6 gallons to the Mile, when I think my fuel bill is bad, I think of theirs and chuckle