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    Ablative paint and plastic cup=whoops!

    Just a word on using Bottom-Kote in a plastic cup for a quick touch up. DON'T do it! Ran around the boat touching up, came back in the shop to grab the phone. Not much longer, I had a black workbench...ate the bottom out. Grrrr...lesson learned
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    VP 280 Reverse lock check W/O engine start..(Don?)

    Prepping the big boat for the slip. VP280 O/D. Seeing as its a sliding cone clutch drive, and no gear meshing, can I just shift reverse with the motor off, and check the reverse lock? Looking/studying the Manual over, I can't see a problem, but I can also fire it up, and do it. No prob though...
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    Seafoam is at Walmart, and info homemade

    Found Seafoam at Walmart today..$7.36..pint..didn't see Deep Creep though. I also (after doing the due diligence on whats in it) make my own. I mix one 12 oz "Heet"..(RED Iso-Heet, not the yellow bottle, which is not to be used in 2 strokes). Cheap, way under a dollar easy One quart...
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    Question on 50's TD and TN lowers

    Is a late 40's TD L/U the same on the early 50's TN's? I just can't remember...thanks..
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    Startron fuel treatment based enzymes.

    OK, we got something good here, or just more snake oil? Seems price wise comparable to Stabil. 8oz treats 125 gallons. 1 oz to 16 Gal. (eyedropper to a 5 gal tank) Stabil is 1oz to 2 1/2 gal 8oz bottle $13 at West Like your thoughts.. Star Tron Story Star Tron? is an amazing fuel treatment...
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    Battery Acid ?..

    Just what is battery acid..have 2 dry batt's coming for 2 of my motorcycles.. coming from an online purchase (cheaper than town with shipping less than taxes, and no disposal fee..still good for other purposes, so I want to keep them. I can twirl wrenches in the dark and do magic, but kinda...
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    BEST damn 3 man band..figer it..who's a newby

    Lets look at this way..who here has been to ZZ Top concert?..(From the early dayzz when fun was legal?) Best little "Band from Tahas" known.. I'm 58..BIL is 83 today..(WW2 vet ...bomb-.dropper/Nav to the site.. when the "drop" was said....on B-25's...."too cool fer school".... SAID... still...
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    Motorcycle Shipping

    Anyone with thoughts or recommendations? Need to get a Crotch Rocket from West Virgina (friend) to the West Coast, add to my stable..
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    Eska..3 1/2..have #'s..Year?

    Got with some other motors..not needed..runs fine, and selling cheap tomorrow. Anyone guess the year? M.. 1709 C Ser..150718 In advance ..danke...
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    Idea for preventing over Winter Impeller set

    I got too many lower units with impellers. I can't be dropping LU/s every spring. That said, my newly crank up 72 135 Merc Stack (less than 10 hours) has those smaller thick impellers that take a set too easy. The whole boat/motor covered, so too much work to hand crank the Flywheel ever month...
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    New slick Credit Card scam

    EDIT...this is a copy and paste...didn't happen to me, I'm slicker than the losers will ever be.. Subject: Credit Card fraud warning-Must read this! The Holiday Season is just a little bit down the road and the bad guys are already trying to get free stuff by using your credit. New...
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    Volvo 280 Salt corrosion problem

    Could post in Props, but think better response here. 12 weeks in the salt pond. New zinc at the prop, motor zinc was wire brushed to a good polish and replaced. All bolts had no antisieze for good contact. Prop/LU have been Primered and TriLux'ed. The back end had the usual crud on it, the...
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    VP280 propshaft seal replace...question

    Well, after 30 years seems the old workhorse 280 is picking up water after 10 weeks wet in the slip. Ordered the shaft/carrier seals and orings, and all new plug/s rings/gaskets. Did the bellows 2 years ago, so I will leave the upper alone. All I have is a Clymer Man, but have dug into enough...
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    Look at this waste of a VINTAGE Hydro..

    This disgust me..(bow down..KNOW the rot there make's it junk.) On C/L Tacoma WA...dude looking to track it down......such a prize... (or at one time was..sad..:mad::(:mad:)
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    How about we come up a "Buyers Contact" for selling used

    After all the BS Bumpkin went through on the "sold a boat and it busted"....I would like any info we could put together and come up with "Contact" the buyer would sign. Ya know, boat has been explained, warned of gauge watching, test ride giving if appropriate, or explained if why not...blah...
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    Hard Start Rude..Chinewalker nailed it

    There was a post before about a guy with a hard starting 5.5 Rude (Maybe a Johnny..can't remember). I have a super hard cold start 61 5.5 Johnson. Been through everything. Had to squirt premix in the airbox first time cold (fine when warm). Stumped. Scott mentioned the fiber washer over the main...
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    Old omc site is back..

    Worked today.. http://old-omc.de/
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    Discharge and EPA trying to doom Rec. Boating

    Seems we need a new Video out to replace "Girls gone wild" to "Judges gone wild".. Recreational Boating Act 2007 In September, 2006, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 34-year-old exemption for recreational boats from an EPA regulation intended to stop ballast water discharge...
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    61 5.5hp Johnny plug type..

    Working on it, and it has Champ RJ12C...know that aint right...correct is ?? Thanks..
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    Need parts location for Tohatsu 5hp prop shaft seal

    Just pulled apart a friends 85 5 hp Tohatsu. Prop shaft double seal junk (fishline). Anyone know of a good parts supplier? I'm going to need most all lower gear case parts..long as its apart, I'll do all.. Thanks
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