Wow, sounding like the Texas terrier of the north there, will leave that to the PM, he is doing an admiral job of being GWB’s bumster.
No, his is about Canada Post and its northern parcel post prices, ones that have never made sense since the Liberals cut it loose and made it a crown corporation.
This past week I had occasion to order some ski doo parts from Goose Bay, a piston, rings and c clips. By mistake [or not] the supplier included a cylinder head; at $660.oo and change I sent it back.
Any way, the whole package came in air freight on one of the local airlines, very quickly too. The cost of air freight from Goose Bay to Nain was $25.30 tax and all. I keep the piston, rings and clips and send back the cylinder head, this time by Canada Post. The package is smaller than the original, deliberately done by me to counter the dreaded cubing of parcels by Canada Post. The package was smaller than the one I received, and lighter by the weight of the cylinder, rings and clips. Total cost to ship from Nain to Goose Bay, plus insurance at $600.00 via Canada Post came to $26.82. The airlines will usually replace any items lost in transit if you put in claim. Also, It would have cost more if I had sent it express post.
So my question would be: what the bloody hell is going on here?
I have asked that question many times of Canada Post via our previous MP, as I’m sure others have, the answer always comes back in the form of increased fees.
No end of lobbying of many forms by many people have led to naught. It is strange that a large public corporation can not give a lower rate than two regional airlines. Little wonder they both have huge volumes of freight coming into the coast latterly.
Any way, my 2000 Polaris 550 touring is going like the wind again, got the cob webs out of her, been sitting around for two winters almost, hope my back holds up or it will be sitting around again.
One other strange thing, the representative at the ski doo sales said the cause of the problem with the piston, it had a small hole punched through on top, was from over heating. You can do everything right making sure the lube gas and such is correct, but if you drive this particular model at sedate and constant speeds of 30 to 40 KPH, the engine over heats.
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Try using a cooler spark plug if you want to use it at those speeds.
To check to see if you have the right temp spark plug bring her up to operating temperature and shuit her down when you cruising along. then take the plug out it should be a nice light brown color. Most manuals will have pictures of what it should look like in them.
In case you already didn't know this in case you did disregard.
Thanks NL ex Pat,
Always good to get advice. So many things effect performance up here, inferior gas, extreme temperature fluctuations, NKG spark plugs. Machine going great at moment, will check on the cooler plugs though, above normal temperatures, both high and low, for this time of year.
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