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    Testing thermostat with torch

    Hard to see in the pix ..... any chance that the head has been removed before you got the motor , looks like someone has applied some sealer to the head gasket and those " o rings " are sealant that got squeezed out when the head was torqued and set hard . I used compressed air to suss out...
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    How Do You Utilize Sliding Rear Window on Your Pickup

    I rode my quad thru the back window of my ( company ) Ute ..... well not right thru but I had a bloody good go ( Ute = pickup ) I never did figure out why the boss couldnt see it was just one of them things :D.
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    Testing thermostat with torch

    Yep ,got me thinking my Honda has sat for more than a year now , I bought a new cam belt , spaklearators and oil filter .... seem silly not to replace t/stat too .:)
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    Testing thermostat with torch

    I guess you could do that to see if it was OK .:LOL: Probly be easier to just boil the kettle and tip a bit of water on it . With boiling water your limited to 100 deg C ( 212 deg f ) where as with the butane you have no idea how hot you had to get before it moves ..... if it does .
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    Cost of carb rebuild

    Blocked air corrector or emulsion tube ?
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Both from my lounge window
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    2002 15hp mercury tiller

    I would say not , Id be looking for another flywheel. It is possible that this has been bought about by the flywheel contacting the coils ( look for witness marks ) and with that in mind is there any play in the crankshaft/ top main bearing or any of the coils loose ?
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    Don't know what I got

    It just something that boaters say to each other as a bit of humour , but there is a bit of truth for some as they discover , one way or another , that they are not boat people , sell the boat to pay for the therapy they're going to need to rebuild family bonds after that experience:LOL: . I...
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    I think the White Tail deer you refer to are the same as the ones we have on Stewart Island ( southern most main Island ) Virginia White Tail and being as how your next door to the Virginias Im thinking that they are likely the same ? There are some good vids on YT about hunting them , Josh...
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    Yes , I have seen talk of this before . I think they looked into doing that with the possums here ( they destroy native forest and carry TB ) , but at the moment we are still using 1080 ( lot of protests ) by carpet dropping poisoned baits which kill anything that eats it .( inc protected...
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    Don't know what I got

    The two happiest days in your life , the day you buy a boat and the day you sell it .:)
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    Contraceptive pills ? what is it that your planning to do to them ? :D Warfarin ( blood thinners ) are used here in rat poison but I guess you could try any thing unless its cruel ( Nah , I mean " who gives a rats arse " ) and if the little #uckers have just eaten the new carpet for one's...
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    I had one of those Garden guns , 9mm rimfire , good for shooting around sheds as the pellets wont damage structure . I once lined it up on an old fridge and let strip .........every one of them #12 pellets came straight back at me . pleased I was wearing sunglasses
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    Cut wire on top of coil pack

    Well I aint no expert on Mercruisers but if the motor runs well Id say it was ok . Put it this way :) If I bought that boat used I wouldnt be bothered at all by that . If the joint was made by some bogan twisting the wires or sticky taping them together Id have a better look but whatever it...
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    Cut wire on top of coil pack

    Connected to coil+ , Could be the remains of a ballast fed coil set up . That piggyback connector dont look stock ..
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    Nobody fishing?

    Im the opposite , here the river is low , slow and warm ( and every bugger is either swimming in it or paddling something , 5 knot speed limit so no power boats ) , pointless trying to catch Trout when the sun is on the water . They will rise for insects in the evening but are still hard...
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    Invisible fence ? , is that another name for some sort of ultrasound or just what we call an electric fence or hotwire ? You guys got heaps better critters for shootin at , and things that can kill you back . Here probly the wildest thing would be a pissed off pig . Ha ha , I have often...
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    gas from exhaust

    Are you sure its fuel and not oil ?
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    Rats a clever little c#$&s and they learn fast . If your going to try poison or traps you gotta go in hard because anything not smoked in the 1st couple of rounds will learn not to touch and teach the noobs . Ends up that the only effective ways of ploughing them is to either shoot or...
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    Anyone have experience with exterminating Rats?

    I have a .177 nitro piston Gammo with a CDT trigger ( Charlie Da Tuner ) and polished all inside . A total win , heaps of fun , nieboughs happy . I saw a guy on the tube using a blow dart , now that looks like fun but I probly dont got the lungs for it now :D
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