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    Teams ending in the letter "s"

    In professional Football, Baseball and Basketball there are 5 teams that don't end in the letter "s". 10 points to the first one who gets all 5.
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    Blood on boat seats.

    A very good friend of mine had a pretty bad accident last sunday. She had to be transported back to the marina in her boat and was then helocoptered to Saint Anthony medical center in Rockford. Several screws, a rod, and two pins later and she gets to keep her arm. She was released last...
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    Time to re-prop?

    My set-up is like this, I have a 1987 Evinrude 110 horse, model E110tlcur. My boat is a 1983 4winns Marquise 160 F & S. The prop that came with the motor, I got it used about 2 months ago, is 13 3/8 X 17. My boat is rated for 120 horses. My top speed with this outboard is right around 45...
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    River is goin down!!!

    I believe the Rock River may be open by the weekend!!! The High school in town here is about 50 yards from the river. I noticed yesterday that it has receded down from the building and the parking lot is open. Anybody else been shore-bound due to flooding??
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    Billy the exterminator

    Anybody else seen this show?? Saw it for the first time today. Mullets, alligators, wasps, snakes and Mom.
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    1987 Evinrude 110 no wot, no power, running rich

    It's an Evinrude E110tlcur 110 horse. I have had this outboard for a week yesterday. Took it out yesterday and it ran great for about an hour. Then it bogged down, and it has no power at all in the water. On muffs it will rev out to the moon, if I let it. Here is what it is doing. It is...
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    Evinrude 110 uneven cooling

    I have a 1987 Evinrude E110tlcur. I just finished rebuilding the cooling systm. New: water pump, upper water tube grommet, water diverters, thermostats, and all the affiliated gaskets. I checked and cleaned all the water ports and chambers. I rebuilt it because I was getting very little...
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    Evinrude 110 horse cooling system

    I have just picked up a 1987 Evinrude 110 horse, model # E110tlcur. I started it up yeaterday for the first time and there was very little water coming out of the telltale. I had figured that would happen. I started it just to see if there were any issues. The powerhead runs great. So, I...
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    Picked up Evinrude 110 horse today but....

    I picked up an Evinrude 110 horse V4. The ID plate on the mounting bracket is missing. I know I have seen on here that models can be identified through the numbers on the welch plugs. The Welch plug number I found is 0484191. The seller told me it was a 1987. He also told me he stopped...
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    So do I make the switch???

    Last father's day my '83 50 horse Johnson gave up and threw a ring on the lower clyinder. I'm not gonna fix it. I am looking at repowering. Now, I can get a complete 80 horse Mercury set-up with controls reasonably priced. Here is my delemma. I have long been a small contributer to the...
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    87 Evinrude 90 horse weak cylinder

    Found this on CL. talked to the guy and he told me it had a weak cylinder. He replaced this motor with a new one and is just selling it. Now I know what you guys are thinking, run away from this motor. I'm wondering if a decarb would fix the problem. But then again, why would only one...
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    Merc model numbers

    I am considering buying a used mercury 80 horse to replace my blown Johnson. I am wondering if there is a way to tell the year in the model number like in the OMC motors.
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    Repowering, cause I have to...............

    So on Fathers day my son and I are fishing. No luck so we decide to cruise the river for a while. My Johnson 50hp starts right up and runs just fine until I go to full throttle. Then it starts to ping and miss. I shut it down immedietly and used the trollin motor to get to the dock. Today is...
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    looking for love..............

    We ran across this article while doin some research on our skunk problem.....http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=247168 I hope he found it!!! Poor guy.............Long, round about trip to find a mate!!
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    Now what.........part two

    I posted here a few days ago about a skunk we caught in the barn in a live trap. Well, we decided that we should reset the trap and see if there was a mate to the one we caught. Guess what.......... I'm hoping that we have seen the last skunk for the year. I believe these two were a...
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    NOW what do we do??

    I set a live trap in the barn a few weeks ago cause I saw a hole burrowed into some old hay. I thought it was an opossum. A few days ago my better half spotted the opossum in the barnyard, so I got the shotgun and blasted it. Great, no more critter trouble!! Today I go out to do chores and...
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    Dell Laptop Grrrrrr.................

    We have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop with XP service pack 3, that has developed a VERY interesting issue. It takes forever for the desktop to load and we are having trouble connecting the wireless network adapter. We have Malwarebytes, Avast antivirus, and advanced system care. We have ran the...
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    rocket science

    (True Story) Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test...
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    Two batteries wired in parallel

    After reading another post about two batteries, It got me wondering if my set up is the best way to do it. What I have setup is two batteries wired in parallel - Pos to Pos & neg to neg. I have a high CCA battery connected to the outboard and a deep cycle connected to lights, depth finder, and...
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    Going To Work!!! WooHoo!!!!!

    Got a call yesterday and I start work at a Nuclear power plant outage on the fourth!! I've done these before and I know they are only temporary, but when this one is over there is another one closer to home. 72 to 84 hours a week, hotter than hades. I will be building scaffold anywhere from 8...
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