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    1978 Mercury 70hp Worth Messing With?

    If its the same old rubber insulation we used to use it here decades ago to wire up houses , called TRS ( tough rubber sheild ) and it used to give me the 5hits , specially on oven installs usually 2 phase with 400vac across them and the stuff would just crumble as soon as you moved anything...
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    07 df250 Valve Shim Question

    I figure that ...maybe not correctly , as the valve and seat wear closing up clearance the cam and follower wear opening clearance and with a fair bit of lee way in the clearance spec's the thing ballances out for the useful life of the motor .
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    Trail Cam pix......

    Every year vehicles have to be registered ....actually you can do it for 3 months at a time , and we get a registration card that goes on the inside of the screen , NBE826 is the licence plate # and the date is the expirery We can put the rego on hold for 3 months or more , which is free ...
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    Stellantis Rant

    Yeah them new veeeehickles sure are great :rolleyes::LOL: I have a 2003 Toyota Rav4 and a 2007 toyota Blade and I dont get none of that crap .........worst thing that has happened is that the Blade passenger window wouldnt work on auto ........I had to turn on ignition , dont start car ...
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    07 df250 Valve Shim Question

    Yeah but if one uses decent oil and changes it on time .....just how often do you have to do this ? . I noticed some time ago ( talking motorbikes ) that the clearance spec's got quite a bit wider no motors using these bucket shims .
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    Trail Cam pix......

    The number plate on a vehicle . The thinking being that all the remote boat ramps I frequent ( lake Monowai and North Mavora lake ) have only one way in or out ....end of the road sorta thing and cars have been broken into ( not mine ) , so I set up the trail cam to cover both my car and the...
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    Snapped a rod

    Gawd , I remember as a kid the rod and reel were what looked the best and in my price range , now I have 6 trout spinning rods ......and I think that even if blindfolded I could tell which rod I had in my hand just by the feel of it , and when I go down to the river now days I take at least...
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    07 df250 Valve Shim Question

    Yeah , just measure the clearance 1st , doesnt matter what type they are untill you need to remove them and you would have to do that to measure the shim before ordering new . as for the 4age , we did 300,000 kms in our MR2 ( aw11 ) and the valve clearances never went out of spec .
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    No Spark

    1972 ? two cylinder . Id have a good look at the kill switch 1st . If it got no spark in both cylinders its likely to be something common to both .....kill switch maybe
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    rant

    when mine gets home from work ( I dont work ) the 1st thing she does is to see if the dishes in the rack are still warm from being washed just before she got home :D
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    Trail Cam pix......

    I leave my trail cam set up when I park my car and or boat trailer in remote areas , least if someone rips me Ill see who it is and get their rego number
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    Mercury 500 50 hp reed stop question

    The reed stoppers are there to limit how far the reeds can open , you may gain a little power by bending them open a bit more but you also greatly increase the risk of the reeds failing . Typically they will split and crack ,bits then break off and destroy the piston and/or cylinder wall on...
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    Mercury 500 50 hp reed stop question

    Yeah , as long as they are not damaged a reed hanging open ....even up to a mm is ok , they slam shut pretty quick when the air starts flowing back that way
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Far out ! thats a tail and a half .:LOL:
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    1978 Mercury 70hp Worth Messing With?

    Cool wheels on that ute
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    Wood stove install

    I just gotta say .... I dont see anything ugly about a bit of flue , its part of the whole pot belly burner thing ......as long as it doesnt look like its on the ****. I thought the idea of a rough cast iron burner was supposed to be a bit "rustic" . One of my friends fitted a log burner with a...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Why , what did she do ?:LOL:
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    cooking

    Rib eye beef steak is hovering around $50/kg here ( supermarket )
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    cooking

    4 bucks each here
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    What is This? It has Mercury on it.

    Well I always use gps sog in my boat because Im always travelling between two points of land a certain distance apart and thusly my sog allows me to calculate an eta regardless of any current present . The only reason I can see ( now that we have gps ) to use a pitot tube or paddle wheel on a...
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