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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    My daughter in law is from Lafeyette, Louisiana, she lives here now with my son. Her aunt (also from Lafeyette) is here visiting over Christmas, they all stayed in a hotel in York a couple of nights but didn't visit the train museum.
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    Survey

    I've wondered how much alignment changes between engine off and engine putting full torque to the drive, transom and engine mounts anyway...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    Yes I'm in a small town in the UK around 30 miles from York and the museum I mentioned. Occasionally Flying Scotsman gets used for commemorative / nostalgia / special events, when it does it sometimes comes through this town. I'd forgotten it was built around 10 miles from here in Doncaster.
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    We like to visit a train museum in York once every few years, they have a few famous old trains like Fying Scotsman and Mallard, I'm most interested in the cutaway views through the boilers of some old engines. https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/ They used to have a Spitfire suppoerted on a pole...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Look forward to seeing some pics / video of it on the water when its done. I noticed some boats on the river near me had inboards removed and outboards fitted but only small outboards to use for cruising the river and inland waterways, nothing like the effort or engineering going into this...
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    not too shy then ;)
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    New Stuff on Vehicles likes/dislikes

    Had a couple of those myself. Prone to rear diff problems (staying locked up or whining) though? One of my customers is a fan of the later Hemi engine'd Jeeps, collects and runs them, fixes some up and sells them on, I do quite a lot of work for him on them. He's an IT guy and wrote some...
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    Random

    I have a friend who gets out of boring conversations or usual formalities by asking those he's talking to "Did you have a this morning?".
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    A Good Night to be on Lake Erie

    Is seiche different to swell?
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    Reminder to check gear before towing.

    There was a fella driving back from the coast when he was pulled over by a police car. He became a little irate as soon as he saw the blue lights. The police officer said "Calm down, I only pulled you over because you have a tail bulb out". The fella said "Yeah but where's my ******* boat...
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    Volvo Penta V6-240 Fuel High Pressure Dropping to Zero

    Sorry I didn't visit this forum for a while but I checked this thread as soon as I visited... Just don't have anything to suggest. Any new developments?
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I use the boat mostly on a local river (the river Ouse that runs through York), but it's only a little narrow river and gets a bit boring. I prefer to be on the sea and did have it on the sea off the coast of Wales a couple of days this year, I intend on taking it on the sea more often next year.
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks Horigan. Tomorrow I'll blow through the hose that is usually connected to the raw water pump input. When I first opened the block drain plugs I still had the thermostat housing fitted, water drained out of the port drain but not the starboard drain, then when I started to remove the...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    The boat is the one in my profile and the subject of this thread. Until now I've been hoping to get one more outing on the boat before winterising it, we had some decent weather with sunshine a few weeks ago. But now it's getting colder and it's forecast to be freezing in a couple of days, so...
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    Men, it is October

    Heh, I expected this to be about temperatures falling and it getting close to the end of boating season.
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