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    Best blade to cut fiberglass?

    These are inexpensive, and work well making a clean cut in fiberglass. I used it to core a hole in my pal's deck for a powered anchor chain windlass. I started from the fiberglass side for a perfect circle cut with no break out splinters. Mine is missing it's pilot drill. It chucks up in a 1/2"...
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    Troublesome problem

    One year ago I was reassembling my Alpha II after a seal job and noticed the upper drive shaft was loose in the pinion. It's supposed to be a press fit. I cleaned the joint with acetone and applied green 609 cylindrical part retaining Loctite and crossed my fingers. Reassembling again this...
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    Get 'em hooked while they're young

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    Hooray! First day of Spring....now I can start thinking about boating

    ....gonna be a while.
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    Another boating expense...probably

    I built a 60' marine rail boat lift eight years ago when we got our Miss River place S of Dubuque IA. I pull the last 40' of the rail out in the fall. The first 20' of shore structure sets high and dry....under normal conditions. Well, this year isn't normal. The river was sill iced over when...
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    eTorque Mild Hybrid Trucks and SUVs

    Contemplating my next towing vehicle after my 21 yr old Durango dies. I see FCA and Ford are using a "mild hybrid" electric motor/generator to give a the engine a torque boost at the first 1500-2000 rpm of acceleration. These motors also provide regenerative dynamic engine braking at...
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    For you naval history buffs...

    Spanish American War battleship plan. 1898 As near as I can count: 2x 12" Turret "rifles" 4x 6" redoubt rifles 2x 6" deck rifles 14 "PDR" (?) guns 2x rapid fire guns Apparently Commodore Dewey, with this sort of ship, made short work of Spanish at Matanzas, Philippines.
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    Replacement snap rings for Merc U joints?

    Here they are.
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    Replacement snap rings for Merc U joints?

    R&R-ing my gear yoke. The snap rings put up quite a fight. Anyone know where these can be purchased. I can blacksmith them back into shape, but I'd rather use new. Thanks ....oops, can't attach a pic. They are bent open.
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    Steering play?

    I'm assuming you have steering cable operated power steering. I'd also assume you removed it to do your steering shaft replacement. The coupling nut and torque procedure is shown below. The nut must be tight. Besides being dangerous, a loose coupling can introduce lost motion - slop in the the...
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    New (to me) U joint disassembly trick

    ...like doing a R&R on rear engine mounts. This is the install. I found a bearing driver adapter that worked on top. For the press-out I used a socket that just passed through the top, and one large enough to swallow the mount as the receiver.
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    New (to me) U joint disassembly trick

    With my HF press shown below. And yea, I've tumbled the needles, and broken the caps. ...part of learning. Mostly learning the feel of the hyd. jack handle, and when things aren't going right.
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    New (to me) U joint disassembly trick

    Changing out my gear yoke I got stuck, literally, right away. I was trying to push out the second cap, but it kept cocking and hanging up in the yoke. After too many tries I did what I always do when frustrated. I went upstairs and pondered the problem over a beer. "I need some sort of...
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    I thought I've been seeing a trend away from I/Os to O/Bs....

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    Reuse or replace?

    I'm ready to replace my oil seal-grooved gear yoke and seal. I just noticed this grooving in my coupler yoke gimbal bearing surface. Most of the surface is OK. I'm not afraid to dig into my pocket to replace a potentially troublesome part, but I'm on the fence with this one. Thoughts please.
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    78 Johnson 115 low compression 1 cylinder

    Howdy. You've hooked up with a great resource here. First thing that comes to mind is if the reed valve for the low compression cylinder is faulty. Blowback on the downstroke will limit the transfer charge and may cause low compression. Also it will basically blow the fuel charge back out...
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    New US tax code is friendly to our household.

    I hope this post passes the Mods sniff test. It's not intended to be political. I just wrapped up this year's individual Turbotax. We are paying a lower tax rate by 2.5%. I've had smoke coming out my ears listing to the wailing and whining about smaller, or negative refunds this year. I've...
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    Dead spot in throttle coming off plane

    ^^+1. If your carb is a Weber 4bbl, it has a throttle return spring located on the port side of the carb. One end of the spring is connected to the bottom of the throttle lever below the pivot. The other end is connected to the throttle bracket at the rear of the carb. It's a tight stretch...
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    Just now · The Death of Cable TV...at our house

    When we built our place 30 yrs ago I had a huge Archer TV antenna hanging here. Three channels. Six years later we got AT&T "AT Home" which became Mediacom Cable. TV became $40/mo for 40+ channels we didn't use. Then we got a Roku streaming TV a couple years ago. We used the cable mostly for...
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    Piston and cylinder problem

    I'd still take your block to a machine shop for evaluation. They may be able to get in there and weld it.
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