Re: Follow up to difference in Quicksilver high performance and premium gear lube.
A lot of angry people up here, this place has a natural negative energy to it. Has alot to do with that 3 months of summer and, like the OP mentioned, the fact that we dump turds in our waterways - our only good asset in Wisconsin.
In his defense Wisconsin boaters need answers fast and quick workarounds, for example this weekend I needed to replace a shift cable as a final step for my new outdrive. The boat has been down since June 7th, and my 1979 bell housing needed to be tapped to accept the new cable. Was here numerous times reading past threads about shift cables and the mounting change. My choices were order the Merc tapping tool or an NPSF straight tap online and wait another 4-7 days, or carefully use a ground-down NPT tap ala ms.com and get in the water. I chose the later and we have been out the last three days. Yeah, I could have trashed the bell housing but I took my time and got her done fine. Try not to take us the wrong way, you guys get to go all year round in Florida and much of the rest of the coast. We don't mean to come off as a//holes, but patience is hard to conquer here in the tundra.
FWIW Skipper Buds (in Milwaukee and Waukesha) has always been good to me, Ernie in Milwaukee knows his stuff and is always helpful. Adam G. at Harborside (Duchows) is good at looking up parts when you don't have numbers as long as it's not too busy there and will also locate parts at other dealers if you are in a pinch, and MW Marine in Hales Corners comes highly recommended as well and is well stocked with parts. All these places are a bit expensive (short season so they maximize profits I suppose) so if you can plan ahead buy your parts online. Now, getting your boat into any of these places or any other marine dealer in SE Wis for service is a miracle. A lot of no call backs - I have been on some dude's "board" for almost a month now. Can't wait until he calls and I tell him I did everything myself.
To the original subject... I accidentally used about 1/2 quart of regular and 3/4 qt. of high perf on my new SE106 drive for break in. Didn't read the bottles that close, but realized my mistake after we already ran it (black bottle = regular, silver = hi perf). Will be draining it now that break in is finished, will re post if it looks weird but don't imagine it's going to be that big of deal.
