Recent content by akriverrat

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    foam release agent

    a friend with an aluminum welded jet sled won't stay out of the rock piles so every year or two up come the floorboards and the welding repairs commence. after 20+ years of this he has decided that when he breaks it bad enough that the bilge pump won't keep up he wants to have a floating hulk to...
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    4.3L rocker arm adjusting nuts

    1990 production 4.3L gm marinized by kodiak. center bolt valve covers. non- vortec. in 2001 exchanged heads for rebuilt. removed pushrods, rockers, rocker balls, and rocker adjusting nuts and re-used them on rebuilt heads. old heads and rebuilt heads both had 8mm screw in rocker studs. the 8mm...
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    stupid human tricks #1

    had 35 hp tiller steer johnson off boat to do some maintanence. put it back on for test run. just a few minutes. will install hold down bolts later if every thing ok. test run fine. coming back to dock full throttle. throw it into hard left turn to slide boat sideways up to dock. hot dogging,but...
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    need to vent

    bought used inboard jet boat 7 years ago.had been repowered and jet upgraded to 2 stage year befor i got it. cool... engine and drive hardly broken in and will not have to worry about that for awhile. not... battery and cables were so undersized starting cold engine an adventure. replaced...
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