Winter wonderland update 2019
https://golfcoursemechanics.blogspot.com/2018/01/winter-wonderland.html
Trial last season .This season after finally getting water meters etc. completed we are up and running .
Now onto trouble shooting . We where having issues with carburetor either freezing up or air filters getting plugged from snow . At first I couldn't figure out what was going on . Looked really bad . Oil blowing out exhaust ports ,crankcases filling up magically from mystery oil ( unburnt fuel making its way back into crankcase )eventually blowing by rings fouling plugs resulting in machines eventually shutting down . I'm thinking at the time that maybe these machines where designed ti run in a remote location away from snow making area . But we have a unique situation where they needed to be in the same are . Being in the same area and having the lids up for exhaust to escape and added cold temperatures with snow I think caused air filters to plug and or carburetors to freeze up making them shut down . My remedy was
To vent out exhaust so lids could be kept closed to trap some of the heat in keeping heated air going to engines
We found it stayed a little to hot and decided to vent some heat out by pinning rear lid open .
Nice and clean .Looks like I just put it in
Added a light to the newer sidekick .The guys aim it at the snow guns to monitor them .
Snow gear in action . My mods made the difference .They have been running for over 48 hours without an issue .
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