Most of the issue with a lot of import beers in the US is the age of the beer - you are tasting staling flavors and oxidation. The shelf life put on most of those beers is a year plus and they will all taste like chit.
In Germany very common to mix sprite with helles (standard German lager) it’s called a Radler. Which basically means one who rides his bike so meant to keep your whits about you. I was put off by it until I tried it Actually quite refreshing. Some of the other mixes like cola and wheat beer are...
Mine is the same way tends to Chaffe the outside edge of the belt but works fine otherwise. until your post I assumed I messed something up when I repowered. I assume the belt pulls the pump i ward some due to the tension and bracket is not beefy enough. My boats a 2004 so seems to hold up ok
on my 2021 Sea Doo which also uses a dry sump - I use a vacuum extractor to suck out the pan, like you said you get a 3/4 of the oil out that way.
Sea Doo has a function where if you hold the throttle wide open ( think its called flooded engine mode) when you hit the starter - engine spins...
maybe a few more details on what boat and what you are looking to do?
Most common swap is a 4.3 V6 if you are looking for more power. Or are you looking to swap one 3.0 with another?
With any engine swap like say you want your 3.0 powered boat to have more power and want to swap in a 4.3 -...
I was in same boat so to speak - my 2004 boat I did my bellows at 18 years old - still water tight on the shift and driveshaft. What I noticed is the driveshaft bellows getting stiff and chaffing the outside edges by the gimbal ring and the hinge pins starting to wear. you have to be laying on...
make sure you get the idle speed fixed as that thunk is the dog clutch being hammered more than usual. You may also have issue coming out of gear at the higher speed as well. Bottom line dont leave it this way.
i recall seeing a YT on muscle car solutions that holley is backing off from making some of their carb styles and putting all their money into snipe FI, and eddy copies their carb deisgn
It has to be because none of us are mechanical idiots. Also I think people defintiely migrate to what they like and stick with it, which is normal.
What always amazes me is the shade that Q jets get. When you look at how many different applications it was used on its staggering
Must be that all of these manufacturers have a lot of QC variance. Every carb thread ends up like this- polar opposite experience with same carb manufacturers/styles.
On a good note the carb threads make the oil threads look interesting...
