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You're right. My thought was, I'm not buying that again if it's gonna leak all over the place, but I could just use it and throw away the can immediately... The engine's likely gonna outlive the boat, regardless. My biggest concern right now is I got some rain in the boat last night (our rain...

A little more context up front would've been helpful. There was mention of M16s and hand grenades too? If we're talking countries, doesn't Switzerland require you to have a gun? And don't Switzerland and Israel require some kind of military service? I was fortunate to have gun safety...

Yeah, I probably won't mess with it then. My shelves are well-preserved now, so don't need any more Sta-bil for the garage : ).

Thanks for the suggestions.

I noticed today that the one I put on this year is already flaking (!). Didn't seem like it had been on that long, but it mighta been new in June. It's a Wal Mart heavy duty (brown and silver), Hyper Tough brand, probably. I wasn't expecting to see that yet. The last one I got from there...

Could a guy just say, dump some trans fluid or the like down the carb? My 7th winterization's coming up and I've only done this once (several years ago), with StaBil aerosol, and then I didn't take the plugs out; so I'm not real worried about it, but thought I might make a minimal effort...

Cool... Looking at the list of what that does made me think of the MPG display under the speedometer of the '02 Lexus I recently got for my 3rd to youngest (in other posts here). That particular item is distracting to me and essentially useless. It never says anything close to "19" when I...

I've considered just taking it to the shop; don't have one, but have one recommended to me that I haven't tried out yet. Main reason for that would be diagnosis of a noise it's been doing off an on that I suspect, but don't know to be the timing belt tensioner (that I already replaced, but...

Thanks. Will look into it further, and try to (eventually) post what I did/found.

Wow

Any recommendations on what to get? I've got a cheap code reader, but I might like something that'd do more (like one you could drive with it hooked up?). My newest car at the moment is an '05 (Acura, 178k). That's the one that made me think of this; it's got some mild stumbling, mainly...

Don't know what an '04 has, but my '86/88 Cobra 2bbl's supposed to have about 175HP. The stock prop (spec, at least) is a 14 1/2 x 19 3-blade, and it works great on my 19.5' boat.

4.3L OMC Cobra. Last couple of times I've poured (then forced) the pink stuff down the hose that comes from the back until some comes out the open drains in the outdrive. Reason is that the little screw in the bottom of the PS cooler is Ok to get out, but rather a pain to get back in and the...

Might want to clarify. If I did that the nose'd be pointing at the sky, lol. I must not be understanding. I feed it in gradually until I get just a little bounce and then maybe back off a bit if it seems like it's going to worsen. Throttling back, obviously requires trimming back down some.

Maybe a dumb question, but are you trimming for the speed? That'll get you a few knots. 88 OMC Cobra, 4.3L. 14 1/2 x 19, 3-blade: 45mph all out, at about 4,500rpm. 2bbl carb. Great (hole-shot?) also, btw.

Quite literally, in this case, lol.

Ultima was the first try one.

NEW alternator from NAPA seems to have fixed the electrical problem(!). It read over 14V on initial check, as I would expect. The connector snapped in better than it did on the (chain store...) reman replacement I tried first. That one tested good when I took it back to them, but I got my $...

Yeah I saw the VVT-i and thought, oops, but that's the inline according to that site; this one's a V6 (but says VVT-i on the engine cover). Saw another place or two that agreed with, it's clearance.

Info. above says it's non-interference... This too: https://carbuyingsupport.com/list-of-interference-engines/ (I didn't even know about that before posting here) At any rate... It's down at the moment with an alternator issue? Hadn't had the car 2wks and had to replace it (with a chain...