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    Grease Seal to Spindle Fit

    That doesn’t even look like a good option to me. I recommend the press type packer if a person wants a tool for the job. It can be hard to press in cool temperatures but it is faster than packing by hand. I used to step on mine to press the grease into the bearing. I’m fat enough these days I...
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    Grease Seal to Spindle Fit

    I haven’t seen that gadget. I did meet a guy many years ago who used the needle attachment on a grease gun to pump the bearings full before installing. It seemed like a terrible pain in the rear and about the slowest way I could think of to pack a bearing.
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    Been a little cold.

    I run mine up and down a couple of times to drain it every time I pull it out of the water just in case I don’t lower it when I get it home. I mine is up now. Shouldn’t be but I haven’t been around the boat since August.
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    Mobile home internet

    I had a cellular modem for years until I got a smartphone and started using the hotspot before someone finally brought fiber optics into our area. I still use the hotspot when the fiber is out. We stream tv (netflix on the living room tv), surf the net and play games at the same time just fine...
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    When boating, always ___________________

    I fishing on Lake of the Ozarks a few years back when when I heard a strange racket. Kinda like a loud slap/splash followed by silence. A bass boat I had noticed passing through at a high rate of speed a moment before was dead in the water with the driver in the water. The lanyard had done its...
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    When boating, always ___________________

    Yep, that way it can plow uncontrolled and without warning into someone on the other side of the lake. I clip the lanyard to the life jacket if I am wearing it. I leave the life jacket in the seat when I am fishing (tournaments). If I am doing something I where should have a life jacket on but...
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    Been a little cold.

    Better check the label on your favorite ice melt package. All except straight urea seem to be corrosive, salts being the worst. Some are better for concrete than others. Not many are good for temps below the teens. Urea alone only good down to 25F. I had no clue there was such a variety. Makes...
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    Been a little cold.

    It’s funny what people will pay for “ice melt” when a bag if rock salt does the same thing for a lot cheaper. Another option is water softener salt. Pool salt works too but not sure if it would be cheaper. I have used table salt when I didn’t have anything else. This was before my steps started...
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    Been a little cold.

    I quit using salt. It ate the screws out of my steps and did a number on the stainless bolts holding the handrail. Now I have added metal siding down to the side walk so I don’t want salt eating that. I throw out a little sand if I need to put something on the ice. I got lucky on this last one...
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    Grease Seal to Spindle Fit

    I ruined an axle about 9 months after buying a boat trailer. Whoever assembled the axle at the factory didn’t pack the bearings. They just smeared a little grease on the rollers and dropped them in. When the replacement arrived (warrantied) I pulled the hub before I took it down the road the...
  11. J

    Disguising a Suzuki as a Mercury

    I think it would be better to make a mold and create your own cowl but I expect an existing one could be modified to look how you want. I think modified would be quite a bit heavier.
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    Intermittent "surging" issue

    I just take some fuel hose and tee into the output side of the low pressure pump. I think most fuel injection systems have a port to connect a gauge to somewhere on the high pressure side. It reminds me of a valve stem on a tire. Schrader valve is a better term. Fuel can squirt out of it when...
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    Intermittent "surging" issue

    Not holding pressure in the fuel rail after shutdown kinda indicates the high pressure pump to me. It should pump right back up when the key is turned on so it really shouldn’t affect starting unless the pump isn’t performing. What pressure are you seeing or how are you checking pressure?
  14. J

    What’s the Best Way to Transport a Boat Safely?

    Do you mean not full of the errors most of us make?
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    What’s the Best Way to Transport a Boat Safely?

    Yep, the variables need to be narrowed down a bit. I own a 17.5 foot aluminum fishing boat that I don’t hesitate to drag across the country with my F150. I have towed 21 foot ski boats and 27 foot tri-toons with the same truck but would not want to go very far that way with the surge brakes...
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    Is there a complete service guide?

    I use solvent in a coffee can to clean parts. I also dry with forced air. Do not allow the bearing to spin when blow drying with compressed air. On the mess avoidance side, you may want a bearing packer like the one linked below (they are quite a bit cheaper everywhere else). It doesn’t...
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    A tale of woe and poor anchor management.

    A few years ago I had to go out to an I/O powered ski boat to untangle a ski rope. It wouldn’t just unwrap and had to be cut several times to free the prop. Of course, this had to be done underwater while holding my breath in near zero visibility water. The prop shaft was bent and there was some...
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    A tale of woe and poor anchor management.

    It looks to me like the anchor rope was on the aft cleat.
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    Is there a complete service guide?

    I just pack the bearings with more grease than normal between the seal and the bearing when doing boat trailers to keep the water out. Filling the hub does nothing to keep water out unless you are pushing grease past the seal (the only way to know you got grease where you need it). No matter...
  20. J

    thermostat

    I am far from an expert but I am thinking a thermostat for a 351 Windsor (Ford) would fit.
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