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    Brake and turn signal light out.

    I found out that the right brake and turn signal light were out on the boat trailer when I got home yesterday. This has happened before but not often enough for me to remember, right away, what causes it. The culprit is the #3 position 7.5 amp. mini fuse in the fuse box under the hood on the...
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    Brake and turn signal light out.

    I found out that the right brake and turn signal light were out on the boat trailer when I got home yesterday. This has happened before but not often enough for me to remember, right away, what causes it. The culprit is the #3 position 7.5 amp. mini fuse in the fuse box under the hood on the...
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    New format

    I hadn't been on the forum for a while and when I got on here after the new formatting it said I had a personal message. When I try to open it it wants me to download some kind of program. I don't like downloading programs for just any reason because they have a way of taking over the computer...
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    Man is that slick?

    The first time out with the pontoon boat and the trailer just wasn't set up for loading up easily. I had the wife back in far enough to hit the bunks. The ramp was slick with slime and algae at the power plant lake and the tires would just spin as the truck eased its way deeper down the ramp...
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    Tank full of winter fuel?

    I just started the old outboard today on the muffs to run the storage oil out of it and then shut it down when it quit smoking. Then I got to thinking that the oil gas mix that is in that full tank has probably separated over the winter months. Now I got to wondering how other boaters remix the...
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    Tilt on older Mercury 50 hp

    I am thinking about adding power tilt to the old 85 Mercury 50 hp motor on the pontoon boat. Can this be done without having to make a lot of changes to the motor housing or mounts. Would I be better off buying an old used tilt unit with the center part of the motor housing attached and trying...
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    Trying to troubleshoot Humminbird problem?

    I posted awhile back about having problems maintaining depth readings with my Humminbird finder. I found out that it does it with the 581 unit or the 561 unit in place on the pontoon boat and it does it at any speed even sitting still at times. It does continue to read the water temperature and...
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    Tune up on old motor?

    I called a Mercury dealer and asked to speak to the service manager. The guy on the phone asked me what I needed and said that he might be able to help me. I told him that my old outboard didn't perform up to it's maximum when I had it on the big lake last week so I wanted to get it tuned up. He...
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    Prop size for old Mercury

    I have had the chance to run the old 1986 50 hp. Mercury on the 18' Bass Buggy-wot- lately and it looks like it tops out at about 4500 rpm and 15 mph. tops. I dinged the prop that was on it shortly after we bought the boat and replaced the prop with a different sized one. Could anybody tell me...
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    A few problems with the Humminbird 581 Hd Di combo

    When I start crossing the lake with the big motor the depth readings start jumping from like 47.9 to 2.4 and then down to 50.5 and back up to 3.6. I know that the middle of the lake is nearly 50 feet deep so I don't know why the unit quits reading properly. It doesn't matter how fast or slow we...
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    Table Rock Lake

    We are staying at Table Rock for 10 days. We didn't get out until 10:30 am Thursday and we didn't run into fish until right at noon when we eased around a point into standing timber. The bass were chasing bait to the top and skittering across the top after then. My son caught the first and the...
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    What color soft plastics work for you?

    I bought some caffeine swim n shads in different colors the other day and tried one for quite a while without any luck. Then I hooked on one that was a different color and caught a bass on the first cast. This got me wondering how many of the different colors of the swim n shads never caught a...
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    Not very happy with MinnKota right now.

    When I bought the deck mate anchor winch I noticed right away that there were a few things about the design and engineering of it that made it look like the folks from Minn Kota had never actually used one. Yesterday I cranked up the anchor line only to find the clevis at the end of the chain...
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    Guest battery charger

    I am thinking about buying a Guest 2613A charger. I just don't like the idea of the short cables that come on the charger, six foot power cord and four foot battery cables. Can the battery cables from the charger stay hooked up all of the time while the boat is underway without having to switch...
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    New fishing rod?

    I have been using heavy duty power plus rods from Bass Pro and my wife has been using medium action Ugly Sticks. We have two piece rods because they are easier to carry around if you take them apart and wrap a couple of strips of velcrow around them. I fished with my son a couple of times from...
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    Charging battery now

    The old 50 horse mercury will charge the starting battery as it runs now. Is it feasible to try to charge the trolling motor battery at the same time? How would they have to be switched in to do this? Would the motor have to be connected to the starting battery all of the time to avoid damage to...
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    Tuning the tach. ??

    I installed a tach. for the 1986 Mercury 50HP motor on the pontoon boat. When we got it on the water I noticed that it was reading way too high. It read 2000 with the motor shut off and was pegging 7000 rpm at cruising speed. Right now it is reading around 900 rpm with the motor off. Can it...
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    Bearing Buddies

    This is my first trailer with bearing buddies so I have a few questions concerning greasing them. I use blue grease that turns grey between greasings. I have been just adding grease until some grey grease comes out along the sides but then I got to thinking that maybe the grease inside is all...
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    Hooked in the mouth

    My wife likes to catch fish but we don't eat them very often. After some of them swallowed the hook we tried to find a hook that they won't swallow. I tried the circle type hooks and long shank hooks but by the time we used the ones that were small enough for pan fish, they swallowed a few. Then...
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    85 Mercury 50 hp won't idle in gear.

    I took it out on the lake and after it warmed up we idled out of the no wake area and everything was fine. Then all of a sudden after the first time I accelerated the idle speed jumped up but then it would stall out when trying to idle in gear. . The compression checked good on all four...
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