Thursday Afternoon 350X Glamour Shots

[Onetrackmind]

The fam and I have spent the last few days out at our family farm and I finally got the X running. I got it to kick over a few days ago, but it idled like crap and died as soon as I took it off choke. I kicked it about 20 more times and nada.

Drained some gas out of the bowl (it was about 3 month old ethanol gas) and it was yellow! Not amber, but bright neon yellow...like Mellow Yellow yellow. So...pulled the tank, drained and rinsed it with fresh gas. Pulled the carb and cleaned it too... Everything in the fuel system was bright, neon, F'ing yellow. Wow! Never seen that before.

The closest non-ethanol gas is about 45 mins away, but I made the drive anyway. Got the new gas in and it she fired on the 2nd kick! Ya-hoo!!! I bought 15 gallons of 91 non-ethanol, so I drained all of our machines and filled with the good stuff. I can't believe how hard it is to find real gas in north Texas! Disgusting.

Anyway, here she is in her natural habitat looking at the camera...enjoy.

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This has made me a believer in ONLY USING FRESH, NON-ETHANOL GAS FROM HERE ON OUT. Even if I have to drive 1.5 hrs round trip to get real gas. Truly amazing how bad the ethanol laden sh!t is when is degrades. Beware!

Oh...here is a little bonus vid:

This is my 9 yo son shooting a PSA AR-15 (7.62x39) that I built right after Thanksgiving. He has decided that this is now his hog rifle (we have lots of feral pigs) and has basically stolen it from me. This shot is at 50 yds with iron sights shooting at a 3.5"x5" canister of homemade Tannerite. First take, first shot BTW. This kid is dam good with a rifle:

Enjoy...

Edit: anyone know how to upload a video to this site from an iPad ???

Edit 2: YouTube video added.
https://youtu.be/5N7sUeSf7CI

BTW, that 1 lb of LEGAL homemade Tannerite cost $2.15. Pretty dang cool.

[x-rider]

Probably the same as a phone. Copy and paste url from YouTube. Usually http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= insert numbers and letters here. Make sure it is correct or it will not upload. Upload and post.

[x-rider]

Copy it from your YouTube channel or just you tube, then get on 3ww , paste and you should be golden.

[Onetrackmind]

Thanks. Never published on YouTube before...standby.

[Onetrackmind]

I figured it out...thanks! Added the video to original post.


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[JesseA420]

i have seen gas do that before, but dont be so sure you are using quality gas just because it is non-ethanol. depending on the gas station and their tanks it is very easy to get crappy non ethanol fuel.
this is why i always run vp/sunoco. it may cost a little bit more, but the piece of mind knowing that if you run into a tuning/performance issue you do not have to have in the back of your head you may just have gotten some crap fuel is worth the squeeze.

[x-rider]

Dude. Lol.

[oscarmayer]

what part of texas? I am in Arlington. I cannot find it any closer than 45 min away unless I go to reedier distributors. (m-f only) then they have it in 5-gallon cans or 55Gal drums.

[Onetrackmind]

Mike, I bought it at Winkle Oil in Winnsboro which is about 45 mins from our farm (where all the toys are). I just heard yesterday that the is a station in Sulphur Springs that has it too...that's a lot closer to us.

With you being in Arlington, I know east Texas may as well be the dark side of the moon... It's sad that is is so hard to find in the Lone Star State these days.