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The links are for underfloor heating fluid not vehicle antifreeze like ELC

Still better than a visit to Londistan

Yes 50/50 but the wetting properties are more important to you, basically there's an additive in antifreeze/coolant that alters the surface tension of the coolant a bit like dish washing liquid and water, once the surface tension is changed by the additive it stops it clumping into little beads it just spreads which means the coolant can remove more heat than just plain water I'd just use Cat ELC if you have a local source, fill and forget, Cat dealer in Texas is Holt Caterpillar, spent a month in the Cat shipping facility in Waco repairing brand new backhoes with one field service guy from Holt 8 years or so ago

Yes that's the chart 50/50 is -37C so how cold some of the USA has been recently you'd want 60/40 to 70/30 with the very ideal at 65/35 It's mixed and never "unmixes" doesn't mean it won't freeze though

Highly possible...... but here in the UK cities are now charging a congestion charge per DAY, this charge depends on a vehicles emmissions with newer cars think it could be Euro 6 spec paying nothing my truck would pay the full charge, think London is £12 but I could be wrong, this applies even if you live withing the zones so some people are charged £12 per day everyday because they are inside the zone and drive an older car, all done automatically. It is a tax raising scam by the local government to raise money under the disguise of lowering C02 Doesn't apply to me though as I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than go to any UK city especially London But the thing is it will only get worse with higher charges and higher fuel taxes to tax the older vehicles off of the roads

On most of the Cat machines I work on (sorry to keep going back to Cat but it's pretty much all I work on) the filter housing has a small electric bleed pump incorperated into the housing, it is not a LP pump as they have a mechanical fuel transfer pump, the electric pump is just for bleeding and has a manual on/off switch that can only be used with the engine and ignition switch off, as @W-T says the systems tells you when it's bled as air going through the fuel presure regulator valve makes a very distinct noise and is totally different to the fully bled noise. Also you can hear the air bubbling away in the fuel tank as that's where it will end up via the fuel return line, and once the electric bleed pump is bled it quietens down but the bubbling in the fuel tank will carry on until there is no air in the system at all, I cannot test this bubbling on a ram as I have a mechanical lift pump so not sure oif you can hear it

When antifreeze is used in a coolant system as the temperature drops to around the protection point which for Cat 50/50 is around -37C the antifeeze makes it harder for the H20 molecules to join together and form crystal lattices or ice, no water in a antifreezed system seperates out to form ice therefore there is no concentrated antifreeze, it is all at the mixture ratio that was added whether thats 30/70, 50/50, or 70/30 or neat, at some point the whole lot will freeze, it is physically impossible for water to seperate out and freeze, and if it was possible wherever that ice was to form it would have the ability to split parts so there would be no point in antifreeze in the first place, lets say 1 radiator tube had a portion where the water seperated, it would just split that tube

Merry Christmas

I will add that here in the UK Cat ELC is £60 ish for 4.4 UK Gallon or 5 US Gallon drum from Finning the UK Cat dealer

I think here in the UK the winter of 87 was a really cold one for the UK with lots of snow, I was working at the granite quarry in the little village where I live IIRC it was around -15c to -20c We had 2 Ford D series ex fire trucks, crewcabs with Perkins V8 diesels which were used as maintenance trucks around the quarry, both froze in the middle of the yard, diesel lines and air brake lines all froze, they both had oxy/acetyline cutting gear on board it took 2 of us over 2 weeks to get those trucks moving again, the diesel lines weren't too bad and every morning after starting everything else it didn't take long to get the diesel liquid again and engines running, the brake lines were the big problem we'd get thawing then it's the afternoon and getting darker then the cold just refroze everything again so next day back to square one. I'd be getting something in the tank to lower the gell point (guess you guys have that all the time) then suck it or blow it through the lines to the LP and filter and then see if the VP will bleed I take it the grids are working ok ?

I use the UK Cat dealer " Finning same as Canada" oil sample lab as I have to oil and coolant sample every machine I service so always have the sample kits at hand But the kit you use has PH so that's ok, thing with Cat ELC is if it is bright and clear red it is ok when it gets to be not bright and clear is when it needs changing and this is reported by the lab so I already have a good idea once it's in the sample bottle of what the outcome will be I do also have the sample point connector and the sample vac so I have no problem getting a sample of any fluid but coolant you would just syphon enough into the bottle with the supplied clean new tubing and drop it either in the post with the supplied paid for label or here you can drop it into Finning depot in the paid for bag, pretty sure a coolant sample kit here is £18 44 years plus I've been using Cat SOS oil/coolant sampling and not once has it been wrong unless I've introduced something foriegn into the fluid but the lab will ask for a resample if any doubt, beari ng in mind the conditions of heavy plant sometimes fluids can get contaminated but never on my truck as the conditions are cleaner

I only use Cat ELC (Extended Life Coolant) coolant in everything I service, premixed at 50/50 BUT Cat also do neat ELC for bringing the % back to where it needs to be if someone has put water in the system OR the freeze temp needs to be lower, they also do a conditioner to add after a coolant sample has come back from the lab with bad results, it very rarely needs to be changed in Heavy Plant equipment partly because you're very lucky not to have a real good coolant leak every once in a while due to the conditions Here in the Midlands UK -20C is more than enough so 50/50 is ok, It's in my truck, sampled at service time, been in 3 or 4 years now and no problems on the samples

certain fact is my 15 or so years at school never taught me nowt about getting old in the mornings I squeak like a brickies wheelbarrow There should be a course at school.... then again my Dad told me what NOT to do but did I listen !!!! now I'm creaking

yep my house too

all done over 2 cups of strong coffee first thing this morning (well first thing for me that is ) while waiting for me joints to start to move a little easier

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cream-crackered Slang for knackered which means tired, worn out https://www.dictionary.com/browse/knacker-s-yard#:~:text=knacker's yard noun British a slaughterhouse for horses,in the phrase ready for the knacker's yard) Here the place where fallen stock (dead/dying worn out cattle etc) goes to was referred to as the Knackers yard Knacker Person who removes carcasses A knacker, knackerman or knacker man is a person who removes and clears animal carcasses from private farms or public highways and renders the collected carcasses into by-products such as fats, tallow… The trade of the knackerman was passed down from generation to generation, it was not a trade that you could go to college for, you had to learn the trade in a knackeryard. In the EU, the legislation covering knackeries is Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of 21 October 2009. It regulates animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption. In southern parts of Australia, if something is rendered useless or broken by an inept person, it is said to be "knackered". Also knacker [ˈnakə] NOUN knackers (plural noun) BRITISH a person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption. BRITISH VULGAR SLANG (KNACKERS) testicles. IRISH INFORMAL DEROGATORY an uncouth or loutish person. That should just about cover every meaning of the word Knacker and the slang "cream crackered...... BUT there is also a savoury biscuit here called a Cream Cracker I do go to a site in Walsall (brummies) as in Close to Birmingham, so most speak Brummie which is not understandable by any human being, But 3 supervisors are from the North East (Sunderland) those 3 may have well have dropped off of Mars and it's 180/200 mile away from where I live, check Out Geordie speak https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-geordie-sayings-words-phrases-6466922

I never seen that ailment in any medi books I ever looked through Collected the S185 bobcat today, 22 ft long tri axle trailer on a UK towbar LOL, USA bumper pull although if it was on the bumper I'm sure that the bumper would still be 40 miles away from me right now alongside the trailer and skidder. 6600 lb or so plus trailer and quite a bit of weight it the truck too, pulled it great with cream crackered injectors, everything else except fuel transfer pump stock and large tyres, EGT never went over 900 and only on LVL 3 on the quad

Now I see why you would want to see pictures of a skidsteer on your definition of a towbar be 4 wheels with big flats spots right down to the hubs and then leaving sparks My towbar on the other hand doesn't look much like the 2nd picture but yes that's close enough. the 2nd picture looks like a Range Rover towbar as the ball bit is removable to stop the townies smashing their shins on it and yeah I know what you mean.... a bit like the logo jeff bozo uses me thinks a couple of nicely placed moonie eyes on every truck and package and old jeff has made it

No I don't think so, would it be bumper pull ? didn't put bumper pull as the pin/ ball is not in the bumper but on what is called a towbar here IE a heavy duty frame bolted to the vehicle frame that holds the pin, i'll get a picture tomorrow but it will be upside down

I have a Bobcat S185 skid steer to transport on Tuesday, got a lot of work to do on it over xmas, not a 5th or gooseneck trailer though but towbar which isn't the best only 40 miles from site to my workshop so not too bad

I've no idea why every picture I try and post is upside down, if I save upside down it still comes out upside down, if I save right way up it comes out upside down, think I might try a pic direct from my phone instead of Laptop At the moment we are a bit sideways in the UK but we're not upside down just yet....... maybe heading that way sooner rather than later LOL Wow another spotless truck Tried again and sure enough wrong way up I'm now going to use a different browser to see what happens logged on using firefox still upside down for the pic above but deleted it tried another that wasn't took using my phone and it was ok so I think it is my phone camera settings

I'm lucky as I have a really good diesel fuel injection shop 8 miles or so away from me that I know quite well and they have the test gear, is there no one like that near you that you could pull the pump and ask them to test it BUT give you an honest result as there is no point some oik telling you this is wrong that's wrong if it's not just to get $$ out of you ( I don't include the shop/shops your truck has been at, I mean going forward) But then I saw that you are from Vancouver Island so having been there I guess unless you have a building for the truck to be in right now pulling the pump yourself is going to be hard However it happens I would get the VP tested, I assume it's out of any warranty ? If you can get a honest report on the pump you can then either rule it out or replace it

That sir is a fine looking truck Just added a picture of my truck but it was upside down so deleted it GGRRR

for my 3500 you could add a nought to your 30 feet My 2500 looks right as it's always got my mobile workshop on the towbar, crane bolted to the bed and right now 30 gallon of Cat trans oil and my oxy/propane kit in the bed, been on site all day in -6c repairing a broken propshaft on a Cat 966 loading shovel, was going to take a pic but I got too cold, maybe tomorrow

I took a look at some of the trucks, quickly made me realise how rough mine actually looks