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    Yamaha Outboard Motor Forums

    Have the Yamaha Outboard Motor Forums been discontinued?.....I haven't been able to bring it up for over a week or more! What gives with these forums????
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    Crab traps!

    First time I've done this....yesterday coming down the Ocklawaha River, lots of boat traffic, not watching for crab trap floats and ran over one....tore up styrofoam float and wrapped rope around prop....cut it off fairly easily with a knife....to the crabber, My apologies about your...
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    Antique outboard motors and boats

    We're in Tallahassee this week and yesterday attended the Tallahassee Antique Automobile Museum and enjoyed seeing a fabulous collection of maybe 200 antique and fully restored outboard motors of all makes...some date back to around 1910 era and later....also many antique wooden boats...If you...
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    Ice/snow temporary metal tubing/tarp structure.....

    20 years now I've kept my boat under a 12ft.x20ft. metal tubing and tarp temporary cover and it's worked pretty darn well.....until this winter storm over the weekend dumped many inches of ice and snow on it to the point it collapsed on my boat....needless to say, this is a real pain in the butt...
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    Change from petroleum oil to synthetic in my Buick?

    My 1996 Buick Roadmaster with 244,000 miles and always used Castrol GTX petroleum oil, but with synthetic oil prices coming down I'll strongly considering changing to synthetic....any ideas or reasons why this wouldn't be good for this old 350 V8 LT-1? Would welcome any thoughts or experiences...
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    350 V8 valve stem seals leaking

    My 1996 Roadmaster 350 V8 with 230,000 miles runs really great, but seems to be slightly oil-fouling spark plugs, mostly just on one side of each plug....guess the side facing the intake port?....Would Lucas Oil Stop Leak help swell/soften these seals? The car only uses about a pint of oil in...
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    Pennzoil 100% Synthetic 2 stroke outboard oil

    Is Pennzoil still manufacturing this 100% synthetic outboard oil, and if so, where can I buy a few gallons?.... Seems everywhere I've checked lately they've been out...
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    350 Chevy V8 cold start lifter clicking cure?

    My 1996 Roadmaster with 230,000 miles and LT-1 350 V8 started during this cold weather a slight clicking(lifters?) on cold start up....stops within a minute or so. Should I add any kind of detergent or solvent to the oil to help oil move more easily or to help prevent this clicking? Engine...
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    SC DNR....???

    O.K., so while I'm getting ready to drag my boat to Florida this week for some R&R/fishing I notice my registration decal expired in April....no time for the mail, so I drive 100 miles to our capital of Columbia where the titling/registration office is....very nice people there, and they...
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    So glad I didn't do that!!!!!

    Some construction pile-driving yo-yo over in the Ocrakoke/Outer Banks area of North Carolina hit the cable shutting off electrical power to the area.....10,000 really upset tourists told to leave/evacuate Ocracoke right away!!!!.....Man, I'm so glad I didn't do that!!!!
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    Chainsaw oiler died

    My older but perfectly good McCulloch chain saw automatic oiler quit and " no parts available".....any of you chainsaw experts have any ideas regarding adding some kind of manual oiler to the saw....like a pump/bottle arrangement...or other????
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    New tire pressures!!!

    I just put a new set of 235-70-15 tires on my Roadmaster......on sidewall it says 51 PSI max load.....my old set said 44 PSI max load. I generally ran about 36 PSI for a smooth ride. If I run 36 in these new ones I'll be 15 Lbs. below max.....What's with the new/higher pressure and what PSI...
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    Mouse in Mustang

    My 1997 Mustang convertible lives mostly in the garage except for weekend cruising....a mouse has taken up residence somewhere in the trunk or other??....without totally stinking up the car is there anything I can spray or put inside the car and trunk that will run the critter out?.....Mothballs...
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    Mass Air Flow Sensor preventive maintenance?

    My Buick 350 LT-1 with 215,000 miles....runs great, but wondering if Mass Air Flow Sensor in the air intake requires preventive maintenance cleaning with the special spray solvents for this purpose?.....
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    E-85 flex fuel Buick

    I bought a E-85 flex fuel Lucerne Buick....first E-85 car I've owned and just wondering if a tank of E-85 ethanol fuel every now and then would help clean the injectors, combustion chambers, spark plugs, etc.?...or does it even matter if I use E-85 or normal gasoline?.....any of you experts know...
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    Buick Lucerne fuel filter

    Just bought a nice 2009 Buick Lucerne and trying to update the maintenance....seems to be some confusion regarding location of fuel filter on this model....was told it was inside fuel tank?.... Is that so?.... Any of you experts know for sure where my fuel filter is on this car?
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    LT-1 350 harmonic balancer

    A couple of weeks ago my mechanic replaced my 200,000 plus mile harmonic balancer....it was right near to come apart. I'm just wondering exactly what this thing does and how it does it? Looks like a steel center hub with a steel outer ring held together by a rubber ring....sorta like an...
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    Pickup truck rear shock absorbers

    this should be a simple and obvious item, but why do most pickup trucks have a shock on the front of the rear axel on one side and a shock on the back of the rear axel on the other side?.....
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    Family dysfunction!!!

    Maybe it's just the Holiday Season but our families and extended families seem to be an ocean of dysfunction.....maybe 10 or 20 percent are what most folks would call normal, hard working, happy, well-adjusted people and families. I hate hearing about all this garbage since we're healthy...
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    Bow strap replacement?

    My bow strap is 15 years old, UV has bleached the black to a grey color, still holding fine but no way to test tensile strength....should I replace this strap with a new one($10), cut off a couple of feet to remove UV damaged section, or just forget it and stick with what I have?...any thoughts...
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