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autobaun70

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  1. I've tried quite a few different style lights, and always come back to the oval rubber grommet mount lights like you see on a semi trailer. The key is to be very cautious when wiring and use all sealed connections, and a bit of dielectric grease where the plug goes into the back of the light fixture. Nice thing about these, they are inexpensive to replace, and available at every truck stop in america, and you can change them roadside with no tools. The marine grade units are sealed very well, only a few dollars more, this is what I use on my boat trailer, but keep a less expensive one from napa in the truck.
  2. I live about 15 minutes from where this happened, I am going to put my money on that he is one of the area's many meth users. This is the type of crap they sould add to the just say no to drugs lessons in the local schools.
  3. my favorite part about greece is the food/work schedule. I visited there quite a few years ago when my uncle was stationed there. everyone seems to work until around noon, then close shop for a few hours for a good size lunch, and nap, then goes back to work in the late afternoon until around 7 or so. Dinner usually doesn't get started good until around 8:30 or 9:00. Have you noticed anyone on a motor cycle with a helmet over their elbow? When I was there if you wore your helmet that way, you only got 1/2 of a ticket for not wearing it.
  4. cam sensor, if yours hasn't been replaced before there is a recall on it, free fix at your local dealer. Go ahead and get a spare to keep in your glove box, you only need a 10mm socket to change it out.
  5. I am from SC, one of my college roommates had a nickname, but was from Maine. you guessed it, he was "The Yankee"
  6. Just pick up a gillmore from lowes and a short length of hose. Should just be garden hose thread. You could rig up a way to hang it from your t-top pretty easily.
  7. in this case, what you very likely encountered was the wiring from the pump rather than the boats harness. Most of the bilge pumps & bait tank pumps I have installed have come with a short lead of wire off of them, and more times than not this wire is not true marine wire.
  8. I would personally go either proline or seaswirl out of the 4 you mention, and would throw sea hunt into the mix. To me, though their build quality has improved greatly, the trophy does not have nearly enough bow flare. Proline has a solid reputation, though not a top of the line boat, they are solid. Then there is sea swirl. I spend quite a bit of time on a 94 23' walk around, very solid boat, dry, and rides great. If they new ones are even comparable to it, I wouldn't have a single reservation about owning one.
  9. double check the manual release screw & make sure that it isn't barely backed off. This would cause it to leak down slowly as well.
  10. regular ole electric fuel pump from napa will do the trick, just wire in an ignition protected switch between it & your power source, or have really long wires to get the battery well away from the tanks. I work in an equipment equipment rental shop, and we use those all the time when customers put the wrong type of fuel into equipment. Good rule of thumb, you can use a gasoline pump for diesel in this application if abosolutely, but don't go the other way around, the pump will die quickly if you do. Oh, in the case of a boat, you may find that it is much easier to just siphon it out using your fuel pickup, you will of course need to bypass any inline water seporating filters for this to work.
  11. are there any other issues with the motors in terms of reliability or performance? While you may pick up as much as a 1/3 in terms of fuel economy, you can buy an awful lot of gas for the cost of a repower.
  12. if they don't pull through I am sure some investor will buy them up just for their design rights & molds. Even if they went to a made to order situation, and scaled down quite a bit, there would still be a market for their hulls. Not my thing by any means, but definitely a market for their wares at the correct price.
  13. it appears that many of their liquid assets may have been converted to gold, in the form of heavy chains.
  14. here is a pic from some random rental companies website. http://www.sunbeltrentals.com/equipment/eq...&catid=s449
  15. basically a long steel cable with a cutter on the end, you feed it in by hand, and it spins breaking up the clog, same idea as a snake, just longer and electrically powered.
  16. I would run a line auger down the pipe first. You can rent them at a bunch of hardware stores for 30 bucks or so. if it is a clog, that should fix the problem.
  17. perhaps a trolling plate would be the ticket. I used to fish for deep water trout when I was in college, the guy who owned the boat we went on had one on his rig, just basically a plate that covers your prop wash to slow down the boat.
  18. I haven't seen the show, and could personally care less about eating swords, however what you describe sounds like proper prep to me for a large fish, especially one that is going to be kept on board for more than a couple of hours. Not too much different than how you would prep a tuna.
  19. not a NC resident, but do ocationally come that way, boat in tow. Should I fill out the form or does it need to be restricted to NC residents?
  20. There is a DNR park/landing behind the T. Ed Garrison arena off of hwy 76 if you are going back toward Anderson. Not too much as far as a dock goes, but decent shoreline there.
  21. yall arent going to catch them and feed em out?
  22. I would personally rather see it here, and make it completely invisible to non registered users. Perhaps an option in the control panel to enable seeing it. This would give the user complete control on what they do and don't want to see. Also, like others have said, the sandbar isn't the sand bar if it doesn't allow at least some nudity. I am all for no sexual content or spread eagle shots, but limited tastefull nudity keeps things fresh & appealing to the masses IMO. Here is my take on how to condense the topics: Sandbar pics section, with the wives/girlfriends post pinned at the top, with the on off function in the control panel, for registered users only. Have a politics, open game area, anything other than personal attacks allowed. Combine sports & dockside chater, as they for the most part go hand in hand combine funny jokes & funny online videos, as the content is very similar, just a different delivery method for the two.
  23. Now I wouldn't go testing the theory out on purpose, but from what I have seen it works pretty good. My father discovered this by accident, we had a rear tire repaired on the tractor, and the only thing we had to mark the tire with damage was tape, put a big piece on the sidewall so the tire guy would know where to install the boot in the tire. Being lazy, he never bothered to remove the tape, and then hit a yellow jacket nest a few days later. They swarmed the tire rather than him. Been putting tape on the tires ever since when mowing in warm weather.
  24. Most of my run-in's with them have been on a tractor w/ a bush hog. One trick I have figured out is to put a big stripe of duct tape on each back tire's sidewall of the tractor, they see the stripe going round and round and attack it rather than you. usually end up getting hit once or twice, but not nearly as bad as without.
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