UTV coming Thursday

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I've always wondered about Fluid Film. I'll try some. Thanks for the tip.

I like it but it don't last forever especially living on a gravel / dirt road. I need to re spray mine about every 2 years but I think the truck is a pretty good testament to the fact it works. Really eliminates body squeaks as well, sort if a not intended benefit.

It is messy to use, don't wear anything you want to go to church in when using it.....

I wear one of those one piece Tyvek sweat suits.... You know the ones, the suits that makes you stink after 5 minutes in it.

 

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Was at my dealer yesterday and was talking to the lead mechanic, we are pretty good friends away from the dealership and he asked me how the winch install went and I told him winch was a piece of cake but the power cables were a real pizzer and he laughed and said 'welcome to the club'. Told me there was no easy way except take them apart to route the cables. He told me putting a snowplow on a Kubota diesel RTV was easy too but routing the cables and plumbing was the real pizzer.

I'm familiar now.

Used it to pull the tine harrow today as I fertilized my back hayfield and overseeded it as well so I wanted to 'set' the seed and fertilizer. In the past I used my Honda Foreman 400 quad to pull it and it worked the quad pretty hard. Not so with the Sidekick. Started out in low range in 2wd but shifted into high range when I realized it had way more guts that the quad had. Glided across the field with the tine harrow and the tight turning radius allowed me to make less repetitive passes too. Hasn't been in 4wd yet.

So far, all good except the tailgate rattles and there is no adjustment that I can see. I'm thinking I'll add rubber bump stops between the tailgate and the box. That should eliminate the rattling tailgate.

Used it quite a bit today and the fuel gauge never moved off full.