At this point I'm moving into the advanced stages of the new fuel shed build. Since I'm not ready to buy the plywood panels yet to clad the walls, I'm going ahead and starting to move some fuel drums over to the new site. The biggest thing though is the transferring of fuel after setting up the drums as I planned. I did make a few changes to my original plans though.
At first I did want to link the two gasoline drums and have one drum for kerosene but after I started moving drums I realized I had a large amount of waste veggie oil along with diesel fuel too. I decided to add a fourth drum over the kerosene drum that will contain waste veggie oil for when I do resurrect my diesel generator, or at least the engine from the genny. Of course since there will be two different fuels in those drums, I would have to have two separate output spouts as well as filler spouts. This would be easy in that the outputs from the top drum would angle over a few inches through the use of some 45 degree angled pipe fittings and then exit out right next to the output from the bottom drum. This idea sounded good enough that I decided to use the same idea for the two gas drums. Even though they would both contain the same fuels, it makes sense to have two separate outputs as it would eliminate the complications of trying to link the drums together as I previously thought of. Plus it would allow for the use of one drum's worth of fuel if the other is compromised for any reason. Worst case I might decide to start making alcohol and can then use one of the gas drums as the storage for that fuel. Another perk to doing the drums this way is that I can make the frame work to mount the drums all the way to the finish without having to get pipe fittings to try and link the two drums up first and building the frame around the spacing between the already linked drums. Once I get the frames built and the drums set up all I have to do is take the plywood and drill the holes for the output lines and tack the boards up, the shed will already be "active" for all intents. The extra drums that are needed is so I can set the drums as I need them to be and just pump the fuel from the old drums and transfer it to the new drums. I already started transferring what I think is kerosene into a drum, but I have another drum that is probably half full of either kerosene or a diesel/kerosene blend. Because all of these fuel oils are kinda old, my plan is to just blend the two and use this blend in the torpedo heater this coming winter to use it up and just fill up the new kerosene drum with fresh fuel. As far as the gasoline drums, one is almost full of non ethanol gas and the other has some old regular gas. I'll be using the regular gas in the vehicles and transferring the non ethanol into one of the newly staged drums while filling up the other with some fresh non ethanol gas. I'll probably try to use up the regular gas first that way I can just take that drum and use it right away in the new fuel shed. The other thing that I was working on was assembling the ATV a little more after getting the new batch of parts to try and resurrect the machine. After the first attempt I figured I was probably missing something, like the stator coil maybe needed to be installed to deliver the voltage needed to operate another part of the machine, who knows. I did take time to make a gasket and glue it to the stator cover so I can at least assemble that in order to run another test on the machine. I also had to do some rearranging on the plug for the handlebar switch assembly since the pinout was different and I had some issues with the wire harness almost burning up on me. I later found out that for one reason or another, the engine cutoff switch is somehow shorting out when its "on" so I made sure to remove the pins for that switch so it doesn't accidentally get turned on and burn up the wiring. Anyway, even after redoing the wiring on the switch assembly and installing the stator cover, the unit still wouldn't fire. I didn't get any spark after doing an open spark plug test nor did I get any kind of power anywhere at the coil or outside of the ignition module, short of the 12v coming in. My next move was to order a new coil and ignition module. We will see how that turns out. In the meantime i did wire tie the wire harness up to neaten things up and installed the fuel tank so all I have to do is install the ignition parts when then come in and see what happens next. Hopefully this will be the last thing I have to do to get this machine to come back to life.
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