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    prop nut tightening

    I was bored and it was there lol. Rather than digging for the prop tool I used that and the punch to bend the tabs since it again... was right there. I'm usually a good and tight guy myself... and usually have to lean into it to remove it.
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    prop nut tightening

    I usually just hold the blade with my hand. I actually put a torque wrench on it the other day when I reinstalled the prop and was able to hit the 55 lb-ft no problem that way. I usually use a block when it's in the water and I'm swapping blades as it's easier.
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    View of unloaded trailer with pickups

    I had a dot on the winch stand and a dot on the rear glass of my 04. When they were the same size you were over the ball. Before that the box tube just needed to touch the seam for the hatch glass and that was close enough. Even with the camera I use the visual cue on the truck.
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    Carb tuning

    Made a discovery... the secondary... I guess it's a close stop? was out of adjustment. The secondaries were opening slightly at idle it seems. I adjusted the shoe, set the idle jets to 1-1/4 out and a steady 650 RPM idle was achieved at a near stoic AFR. I did mess with the butterflies again...
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    Rant: Can't catch a break with weekend weather...

    Well... my outing tuesday started off as a railing r&r. They sent a wrong part and I refuse to pull it apart twice so I abandoned that. Then washed the boat, repaired the trailer lighting and some other miscellaneous stuff. Had it on the charger all night an morning. Went to start.... nothing. 7...
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    Carb tuning

    It's not incredibly lean... 15.5 or so. But if I run her down to 14 I get 7-800. Linkage off, base idle mode (thunderbolt V) and adjust idle. Then adjust mixture then back to idle. I think I'll double check the throttle blades and transfer slot and try and sniff out a vacuum leak again. I'm...
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    Carb tuning

    I agree. It was cheap and I figured it wouldn't hurt after finding a substantial leak. Now if I could just figure out my idle lol. Basically needs the idle screw all the way out and mixture screws a tad lean. (Mild surges. About 2 turns out each.) I'm wondering if when I did the throttle plates...
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    Carb tuning

    So I got out. Picked up 100 RPM up top compared to when I started. Long and short I pretty much ended up back where I started... which makes sense. I found a vacuum leak on the base today and because of that installed the "thick" edelbrock base plate gasket/4 hole spacer. My final tune up was...
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    Started out as a good day on the water. 4.3 mercruiser

    the other thing with the GM HEI modules is that a lot tended to have specific quirks for their application. Latency comes to mind and a lot of aftermarket ones I've used and tuned on the 84 needed some massaging to work as well as the stock module in the spark tables.
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    Started out as a good day on the water. 4.3 mercruiser

    I don't know about the EST but I can say aftermarket HEI modules are typically ****.
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    Rant: Can't catch a break with weekend weather...

    It's 92F. This is the first day I've had off in 2 months. I'm going out. :)
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    Inspiration.

    Dad was doing alright until the fusions in his back. Granted he's young but the men in our family don't make it much into their 70s. I try to not totally kill myself and hope the degenerative disk stuff crops up later on. He was around 35 when he really needed it and made it to 56 before they...
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    View of unloaded trailer with pickups

    Tacoma is a mostly redesign. Colorado is the fullsize drive train under an updated 2nd gen chassis. Frontier is a full face-lift truck on the same platform that Nissan has used for nearly 2 decades. Ridgeline is nice too. I like my 19 Colorado but the rear vision with the long bed is bad.
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    I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

    Less payload for beer if you do both
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    cooking

    As long as it's on it the slight warp is all good. Induction is imo the best with cast.
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