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    gas from exhaust

    Are you sure its fuel and not oil ?
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    Rats a clever little c#$&s and they learn fast . If your going to try poison or traps you gotta go in hard because anything not smoked in the 1st couple of rounds will learn not to touch and teach the noobs . Ends up that the only effective ways of ploughing them is to either shoot or...
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    I have a .177 nitro piston Gammo with a CDT trigger ( Charlie Da Tuner ) and polished all inside . A total win , heaps of fun , nieboughs happy . I saw a guy on the tube using a blow dart , now that looks like fun but I probly dont got the lungs for it now :D
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    Air rifle .:)
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    100+ outboards

    Far out , returns at flea markets .... I know what Id be telling them I have bought heaps of stuff off ebay , only one issue ( which I I won big time ) I bought engine parts from some guy in Canada , del date about 2 weeks so I paid air freight , but he put the stuff on a ship and after 8...
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    Swapping to an opti

    Nah man ! Im in New Zealand .... we aint that stupid , and anyhow they dont actually ingest the stuff ( mostly ) they just peck the 5hit outa it , destructive . They are very clever , which doesnt help . Id say the natives here ate a fair few ( before we got Macca's and KFC ) , probly why they...
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    Swapping to an opti

    Got chewed by Raccoons ? . we have a native Alpine parrot , the Kea and those em effers will eat ( personal experience ) the rubber seals out of anything like house windows cars , boats . Upholstery , boots , the insulation off my solar water heater , electrical cables , garden hose, my ski...
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    Engine cranking not catching

    Sounds like its not getting fuel .
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    Questions about purchasing a 1982 75 HP 3 cylinder Johnson

    For sure but unless you have the nouse , or a friend who does your not going to know for sure . I wouldnt recommend any non mechanical person buy one , specially if you want an aux for main engine back up , but if its for kids in a pond and there are others about ..... why not ? Whatever...
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    100+ outboards

    Surely anyone wanting an old motor for the love of them or budget constraints would be doing their own servicing , the simplicity of them has been mentioned a few times :)
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    My Mrs has 8 brothers and 2 sisters #%7k that !
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    Questions about purchasing a 1982 75 HP 3 cylinder Johnson

    Its the crankshaft assy that gives me the geebies . If its got rusty its custard but its hard to tell sometimes . I look as far thru the intake tract as I can to see if its dry , like corrosion on throttle butterflies or reeds if you can see them sort of thing , or it might be all crudded...
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    Questions about purchasing a 1982 75 HP 3 cylinder Johnson

    I think with smaller , like aux sized motors there's half a chance that its done bugger all work .... I have a 6hp Zuki , had it 3 years and it hasnt got 2 hrs on it , so your looking at the ravishes of age and poor storage rather than broken knackeredness .:)
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    Questions about purchasing a 1982 75 HP 3 cylinder Johnson

    :LOL: far out man ! talk about glass half empty , are you a doomsday prepper ?:ROFLMAO: My body has had 62 years of less than ideal care ( Im doin it right now 🍻 ) and I still run well
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    Deep Cycle Battery not good for starting??

    Huh , my friend bought a 4020 and fixed it up ,looks almost new , he's a farmer but this is just a toy . He likes John Deere's.
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    Estate sale lot of 18 - 25hp motors - Compression gauge variables.

    Dunno cyclops , I wouldnt have ANY vehicles at all , or a boat ..... or a house . just gotta know your stuff :) and walk away if it seems suss (often triggers a reduction in asking price )
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    Trailer bleeding brakes. Part 2

    Might be wrong but I have always thought tis was called (self servo ) and on bikes with TLS (twin leading shoe) brakes it can so strong that the bike will stop on a dime ..... going forward but wont stop it rolling backwards very well . Possibly why rear drums are sls ( single leading shoe...
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