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    Steering Cable Lubrication Help

    Re: Steering Cable Lubrication Help The steering cable is lubricated, supposedly for life, with a light oil. If you use too much grease on the rod, or in your case likely there's an external grease fitting on the front steering cable tube, it'll force grease into the cable and jam it up...
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    1997 XR6 150 hard starting and stalls

    Re: 1997 XR6 150 hard starting and stalls 1. Nope. Yer sucking on it. It just shouldn't collapse. 2. If it seems like it is, it probably is. 3. That's a valve to let air in if the line from the boat tank gets pinched or plugged. It'll let the motor get oil from the engine reservoir for...
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    1988 mariner 200hp tach question

    Re: 1988 mariner 200hp tach question Rectifier is use is 35 amp, 400V GBPC3504. I get them at Mouser electronics, or Digikey. They're about 3 bucks in small quantities. I use used regulators. They are the 20 amp (2 used in a 40 amp system) 6 wire potted in black. The clear potted 5...
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    Rectifier upgrade Mark 58

    Re: Rectifier upgrade Mark 58 The original is a selenium rectifier. Amazing it lasted this long. Sure, you can replace it with a silicone rectifier. I found the diagram. It is a full wave rectifier, so you hook it up just like the other. Stator leads to ~, + to battery, and - to frame...
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    Anybody towing their boat behind a fifth wheel camper?

    Just bought a 93 Dodge 1 Ton Cummins dually and a 25' fifth wheel camper. Plan to put a frame hitch on the camper and pull the 18', 150 hp bass boat behind it. Pull car should be adequate. Camper is stout. I will put electric brakes on the boat trailer and wire separate lighting and braking...
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    Now I can retire

    My son found a 93 Dodge Cummins 1 ton dually in Spokane. Owner wanted to sell that and a fifth wheel camper as a package. I bought the whole string for 7.5 G. Truck has 180G miles on it. Just broke in good for a Cummins. Everything works well except engine brake and TCC. I suspect both are...
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    Computers left on overnight

    Animator vs Animation
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    What to do with the boat

    While you're fixin' the trailer. I lowered the tongue jack to the limit. Put blocking under the chines, raised the trailer back to just about level, picking the stern up off the bunks. Put the bridge span over the gunwales and strapped it to the boat with a 1600 lb tie down strap. I also...
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    88 Tracker Trailer

    Center cross member cracked right in the middle. I suspended the boat on blocks and a lift beam, and pulled the trailer out from under it. Welded it up. Man, that thing's thin, must be about 12 G steel. Decided to re-wire it while I was at it. Some of the clearance lights have been blinking...
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    Basstender Trolling Motor Plug

    I bought a BassTender 11.3 by Leisure Life Limited. Appears the company is gone. Does anybody know what this trolling motor connector is. It appears to be about 3/4 inch in size. 30-40 amps judging by the wire size. Where would I buy the mating plug.
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    Huge Bass?

    I was fishing with my wife when I saw a disturbance at the edge of some lily pads. I threw my zipper worm, buttered up with Kick-N-Bass Crawfish flavor at the spot. Two seconds later, the spot erupted about like a toilet flushing, then all quiet. My line started to slowly move along the lily...
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    Jet Skis Are Not For Everyone

    Sorta Gives new meaning to the terms Low rider, high tide, and full moon! Not to mention: Crack kills!
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    Bomb Squad Officer Survives Explosion

    What I want to know is what is that suit he's wearing. It was definitely an anti-personnel IED. He got up and walked away, abeit a bit hard of hearing.
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    Tune-up 1992 V135

    V 135 carb prox 1992 s/n c127577 SeaRay branded. Waking up from 4 year sleep. Does anybody have the specs at their fingertips? Throttle cam to stop gap Primary pickup timing Max advance timing throttle roller to cam WOT rpm idle RPM This engine has the water cooled 40 amp regulator, and an...
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    She's doing it to me again!

    Bass opener weekend, the Admiral dug this 5 pounder out from under a flooded dock while I was trying to get my trolling motor out of the chit in the picture. 2 biggest fish into the boat last year were on her string.
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