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  7. So there I was

    in Boating and Fishing Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Snapper Head

    Thank gawd the band distracted everyone just long enough for me to pull my tattered psyche together long enough to get the hell out of there. I wiped my sweaty brow, massaged my scraping intestines, and looked both ways down the dusty highway, seeing only the tail of school bus steadily getting smaller above the roadway winding to the west.

    I thought about how empty this land would have been a few hundred years ago; I thought about Belgian beer and Dutch whores; I thought about baby seals and purple speedos; I though how Ludicrous my thoughts were.

    Just then, I heard the tell tale clak from the hammer of a .45 auto being cocked....

    Big Al

  17. Recent outboards

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    When I joined THT trashing outboards was all the rage. The fichts and the opti pops.

    Is it just me or are the newer models (all brands) performing better than predessors?

    I am not reading much about any one brand with an issue.

    By the way my 2000 Ficht is still running strong.

    This is not intened to start bashing of brands.

    As posted earlier, the turn of the century was the height of field development (meaning - put em on the shelves and we'll sort out the remaining issues later) for the Direct Injection engines. I discovered THT because of my horrific experience with Mercruy Marine regarding my 2001 big bore opiti's. I think Mercury actually learned from the 2000/2001 Optimax debacle, in terms of customer service. I think all of the mfg's took notes from Merc on that. I think the larger majority of boaters understand that outboard engines will let you down eventually, irrespective of make & model (except for the 2 stroke, 3 cylinder, carbuerated 75 HP Merc. The finest outboard of all time. :P ).

    I do think that the quality of the products has increased in the past 5 years, but greater than that has been the increased level of customer and dealer service from the manufacturers. Granted, there are some horror stories, and always will be. I am speaking on the whole.

    There will always be bashers, but there is far less fodder for fueling the bashfests these days.

    Now that the outboard mfg's have leveled the playing field, I have to wonder where they will take the design technology next?

    Big Al

  19. Used SUVs

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    Steve,

    I won't tell you what to buy (unless you want to make an offer on the below described unit :605_thumbs_up: ; but you'll have to up yer budget :P ), but can give you a real world example of Tahoe ownership.

    My wife drives an 04 2WD Tahoe, 325 flex fuel gasser, LT package, 16 inch wheels, towing pkg. Sunroof, leather, power everything, DVD player for back seats. Lo ho ho ho ho ho oaded. It currently has 75k miles on it. She (not me, HER :605_thumbs_up: ) tows a 2 stall, tandem axle, all steel horse trailer with approximately 2500 pounds of horseflesh in it, several times per month. Most weekends, in fact. I don't know the weight of the trailer, but would guesstimate it a perhaps a ton. You don't even notice the thing being there, in terms of feeling the weight. I also towed a 5800 pound boat with it quite a few times during the first year we owned it, and was never nervous at the ramp. I did not do any long distance towing of the boat; but those damn horses have seen some country from that trailer....

    No major problems with the vehicle. Put new tires (Toyo HT's) on a few months ago, and am currently looking at replacing the shocks. It still drives and rides very well, but I can tell that the trailering has taken a toll on the shocks.

    There was a problem with the instrument cluster (a GM quasi-recall - they would not replace the cluster until it acted up. Well, ours was very intermittent and it took a whole lot of pounding on the dealer to finally get it replaced); and also the fuel pump started dying at 70k miles, which I found to be pretty pathetic. When the fuel got below 1/4 of a tank, it would not start. My brother replaced the in-tank fuel pump while I sat on a cooler drinking beer, telling him how much I appreciated his help. :1992_beer_cheer:

    Hope this helps with your decision.

    We will not buy another GM product d/t political belief reasons. If those reasons were not in place, we would definitely replace it with another Tahoe. Instead, it will be replaced with a Navigator.

    Big Al

    P.S. - you can also hide several hundred pounds of vaccum packed weed in the body panels; or so I have heard.

  21. So there I was

    in Boating and Fishing Discussion

    Posted

    "that 5 o'clock shadow is very becoming, for a peasant girl". She instantly smiled, licking her lips while batting her eyelids. She then excused herself and strolled off toward the men's room.

    My mind raced, my hear pounded, and then the realization struck me with all the force of a blown aircraft tire upon landing, and I shouted to no one in particular "that's it!!! that's it!!!

    Just then, two lumbering ETEC owners in tattered CONTENDER t-shirts began waddling toward me at a brisk pace. Damn the luck! I had just purchased a used, heaver splattered Bayliner powered by a 50 hp Force outboard. How was I gonna be able to reason with these two?

    Big Al

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