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    Removing water from gas

    When it's in saturation the equilibrium drives the other way. If you leave e10 on a bench in an open jar you will actually see it absorb water and have droplet formation on the surface. If you have enough water in the fuel it can and does drive the other way. We do washes like this all the time...
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    portable speaker

    Flip is great. If you want something even smaller, the clip is also good. The flip sounds better but I like the clip because I can keep it really quiet at the beach so it doesn't reach beyond our immediate area.
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    Removing water from gas

    If you shake it and let it re-separate you have slightly less ethanol fuel too... depending how much water ended up in the tank.
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    My 84 4winns horizon 195 project.

    So I finally had a day off between events. I'll be out now for wedding festivities as someone decided to make me best man. (2 friends, twice this happened now. I'm not best at anything but I digress) Anyway. Got the stereo tuned. Compounded the deck and most importantly, replaced all the rail...
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    1995 Crownline 202BR Restore

    Drill slightly larger, run a pipe cleaner through with some resin to coat it. Let that soak in the core and set. Then bed eye in. I'd use boat life. The 5200 alone will eventually shrink and pull away leaving an air space. It isn't what it used to be. If you ever need to replace the boat life is...
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    rant

    Paying for the convenience? My local BJs does the 6 foot heros for about 37$ out the door. Good quality bread too. I went through my local deli and supermarket and they were nearly triple the price. Bread sourced from the same vendor too....
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    cooking

    Water displacement on the zip lock works great!
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    cooking

    I did it sous vide and quartered some button mushrooms. Next go around I'll probably just do it low in a pan for an hour.
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    cooking

    Olive oil, garlic, thyme, worchestshire, bay leaf, lemon peel and some sherry. It's the like 3rd time ive actually been able to cook something in the last few months so it felt nice. Things are slowly returning to normal. :LOL:
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    cooking

    Coincidentally I also cooked a tomahawk this weekend... served it with au gratin, maple syrup and bourbon glazed carrots and marginated mushrooms.
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    prop nut tightening

    I was bored and it was there lol. Rather than digging for the prop tool I used that and the punch to bend the tabs since it again... was right there. I'm usually a good and tight guy myself... and usually have to lean into it to remove it.
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    prop nut tightening

    I usually just hold the blade with my hand. I actually put a torque wrench on it the other day when I reinstalled the prop and was able to hit the 55 lb-ft no problem that way. I usually use a block when it's in the water and I'm swapping blades as it's easier.
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    View of unloaded trailer with pickups

    I had a dot on the winch stand and a dot on the rear glass of my 04. When they were the same size you were over the ball. Before that the box tube just needed to touch the seam for the hatch glass and that was close enough. Even with the camera I use the visual cue on the truck.
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    Carb tuning

    Made a discovery... the secondary... I guess it's a close stop? was out of adjustment. The secondaries were opening slightly at idle it seems. I adjusted the shoe, set the idle jets to 1-1/4 out and a steady 650 RPM idle was achieved at a near stoic AFR. I did mess with the butterflies again...
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    Rant: Can't catch a break with weekend weather...

    Well... my outing tuesday started off as a railing r&r. They sent a wrong part and I refuse to pull it apart twice so I abandoned that. Then washed the boat, repaired the trailer lighting and some other miscellaneous stuff. Had it on the charger all night an morning. Went to start.... nothing. 7...
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    Carb tuning

    It's not incredibly lean... 15.5 or so. But if I run her down to 14 I get 7-800. Linkage off, base idle mode (thunderbolt V) and adjust idle. Then adjust mixture then back to idle. I think I'll double check the throttle blades and transfer slot and try and sniff out a vacuum leak again. I'm...
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    Carb tuning

    I agree. It was cheap and I figured it wouldn't hurt after finding a substantial leak. Now if I could just figure out my idle lol. Basically needs the idle screw all the way out and mixture screws a tad lean. (Mild surges. About 2 turns out each.) I'm wondering if when I did the throttle plates...
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    Carb tuning

    So I got out. Picked up 100 RPM up top compared to when I started. Long and short I pretty much ended up back where I started... which makes sense. I found a vacuum leak on the base today and because of that installed the "thick" edelbrock base plate gasket/4 hole spacer. My final tune up was...
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    Started out as a good day on the water. 4.3 mercruiser

    the other thing with the GM HEI modules is that a lot tended to have specific quirks for their application. Latency comes to mind and a lot of aftermarket ones I've used and tuned on the 84 needed some massaging to work as well as the stock module in the spark tables.
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    Started out as a good day on the water. 4.3 mercruiser

    I don't know about the EST but I can say aftermarket HEI modules are typically ****.
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