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  1. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Better metallurgy, stronger designs, crumble zones, seat belts and airbags are great technological advances that save lives without diminishing people. I like ABS brakes but having that system fail on icy roads is an eye opening experience.
  2. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    I agree 100% but the number if people deserving to go out that way will dramatically increase as reliance on technology increases. If checkout stands are any indication, it doesn’t seem like anyone under 40 can do simple math anymore. I don’t really have a problem with technology. My first...
  3. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    I’m 59 and was a farm kid. I have driven several. The technology only makes it worse. Look at the morons crashing Teslas with auto steering because they thought drive time was nap time. The more technology takes over the more stupid and ineffective we will become as a species.
  4. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    I’m 59 and thinking my next truck should be an early seventies at the newest 3/4 ton with a modern engine. 8-10 mpg and 100,000 miles was about the best you could hope for with the original drivetrain so some upgrades are warranted. I dislike key fobs and pretty much anything that supports...
  5. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Yeah, I noticed they did not have the 2026 manuals in the website yet. I was hoping the video on that page would help you locate it. I read something that made me think the vehicle didn’t come with a printed manual either but I could have misread it or that info was incorrect. After reading up...
  6. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Try this link to use regular cruise control. I didn’t watch it, only went by the video description. https://owners.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/resources/vehicle-operation
  7. J

    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    I would expect a procedure like I had to use to disable the seat belt alarm and the self locking doors to be buried in the owner’s manual.
  8. J

    Boat is put away for winter. What to do every day ?

    I used to hunt some that way on a piece of BLM ground in AZ. They had a sign-in sheet at the gate but it was very unusual for anyone else to be out there. Harvested some good mule deer by parking and stalking. The main road in was maintained gravel but everything else was ranch trails. Sitting...
  9. J

    Boat is put away for winter. What to do every day ?

    Here is another good one. A guy road hunting stopped and shot a deer in a field in plain view of the property owner’s house and they witnessed the deed. The owner asked the game warden to talk to the “hunter” about hunting on property without permission. While the game warden was talking to the...
  10. J

    Boat is put away for winter. What to do every day ?

    I never had that problem on private land (other than road hunters). I am fairly sure I was responsible for a very nice tree stand disappearing from the back of a property. I was supposed to be the only one hunting back there. The back gate was left open with 4-wheeler tracks. I shut and wired...
  11. J

    Boat is put away for winter. What to do every day ?

    I have to say I have a problem with road hunters. My dad and I were hunting in a tree line along a small lake. A doe and a buck ran out into the corn field between us and the road and a moron on the road sent bullets our way trying to shoot the deer between us. We saw what was happening so we...
  12. J

    Boat is put away for winter. What to do every day ?

    The only good thing about snow is people pay well to have it moved!
  13. J

    Reminder to check gear before towing.

    I pickup up one of the I/O ski boats from a maintenance shop. They had to lift the motor to replace the fuel pump so the big hinged engine cover had to be removed. About the time I hit 35 mph I watched it blow open. They had left the latch out when they reinstalled the cover. Fortunately, I had...
  14. J

    View of unloaded trailer with pickups

    They sell them aftermarket. The old Nissan 1/2 ton pickup they had at work had one. The display was mounted to the dash. It disappeared after the second transmission went out. The Chevy 2500 Duramax that replaced the Nissan is a much better tow vehicle but no camera.
  15. J

    Offer accepted

    This sounds a lot like my current situation. After nearly 20 years and many tens of thousands of dollars, everything is finally about how we want it, my wife now thinks we are too far from family. I’m too old to start over so we will have to downgrade and have to sell the planes and probably the...
  16. J

    Reminder to check gear before towing.

    When I was in my early twenties a bunch of us went tubing on a river one day. We had a pickup bed loaded with inflated inner tubes and 2 people. The driver liked to go fast and when he hit a hump one of the passengers in the back got launched. Fortunately for me, my leg got hung up in a tube and...
  17. J

    Nobody fishing?

    Sitting still in the cold never did much for me but it was better than just sitting in the house unless the wind was blowing. I never had a hut and don’t think I ever caught anything either. I was thankful for the gas powered ice auger with extension. Almost didn’t cut through a couple of times.
  18. J

    Aluminum Boat Paint

    I think zinc chromate went away nation wide or was so restricted no one could use it around 25 years ago. That’s when I started seeing zinc phosphate. I went to order some zinc phosphate a few years ago and zinc chromate had appeared in the search again. Otherwise I wouldn’t know it was out...
  19. J

    Cotter pin for Prop...Any one will do??

    I would recommend stainless no matter where you are. I accidentally installed a plated cotter pin a couple of years ago while replacing a damaged prop. A month or so later the boat came in for oil change and the cotter pin had corroded bad. The split ends broke off instead of straightening for...
  20. J

    Aluminum Boat Paint

    Zinc Chromate is not banned in NY. There are some stringent regulations governing it. Most seem to revolve around the VOC’s. I don’t know if the rattle cans have the correct mix or not but if Amazon or other supplier will ship it to NY then I would think they do. Otherwise there are spray gun...
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