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Go back and bleed the injector pump and injectors from ground zero. Shut off your fuel valve at the tank for each engine, then pull the top off your Racor and top it off with fresh diesel. Put the Racor top back on and snug down the T handle, making sure to instpect the o-rings first. Now loosen the...

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Tony, roger that. My bro in law is German & he & my sister are architects. They designed & built an office building for me some 30 years ago and he "overbuilt" to the extreme - like real redwood plywood for the soffets & overhangs, solid redwood facure boards, copper louvers, a 45 year roof with cop...

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Mission at least half accomplished with the air cleaner. Followed John's link above and the air box finally came loose. Better have a Torx 25 handy to take it apart once removed, then......you discover there are TWO frickin' air filters in there, one for each side.......so the one K&N I bought needs...

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Anything sterling is out of sight right now. Pure silver is selling for about $35 a troy oz. (a troy oz. is about 91% of a "regular" postal oz.). Sterling silver is 92.5% silver and 7.5% another metal, usually copper. Scrap sterling silver sells at honest gold & silver scrap places for about 83% of ...

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Facebook is a Coommunist front plot similar to the Occupy Wall St. mob & Randall.

yo Fren'

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As far as I can tell the coil(s) are intergral with the CD module so can't swap them. I suspected the plug wire as the rubber cap that goves over the plug on the offending cylinder was pulled part way off....so took the rubber cap off and the metal clip that hooks to the top of the plug was firmly a...

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Harry, that's what's got me worried....I don't really know all the parts in a CD ignition system, but as I understand it, the "trigger" is under the flywheel and feeds the CD module, and I guess there are two of them, one for each cylinder? Is there a way to test the 'triggers'? Anyway, I can see I ...

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Should have mentioned the carb - first thing I did - after putting in new plugs - was to pull it and have a buddy who is real good on small carbs pull it down to the last screw & jet - blow it out, Gum-Out it, etc. It was real clean looking but we still took it all the way down. I also tried gapping...

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Gee Faithful, I'm fulla problems. Have a 1988 Nissan 30 h.p. two cylinder, 2 stroke on my little Whaler. Has run flawlessly from new with just plugs now & then. The other day it started missing when I was idling in and was obviously missing on one cylinder. So I was able to identify the top cylinder...

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Same motors I have, the 250s. Get the CPL # from them. If the aftercoolers look like tombstones on top of the motors they are probably the CPL 1247s, same as mine and pretty much the bullet proof of all bullet proofs of all 6BTAs since the aftercooler is fresh water cooled vs. seawater and requires ...

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Ken - I've never heard of the tensioner spring getting weak - the only issue I've seen with them is the bearing going out and there is a retrofit to fix that you can find on the Cummins B forum on boatdiesel.com. My 6BTA 250s were made in 1989, now with over 2,500 hours and the tensioners have never...

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Bob - try this & the guy even has a German accent, so must be right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMUCPWkKnw I let the dealer do all the warranty work but once the warranty is out we use a specialty European auto shop here that has given us good service for many years. The MBs are expensive, but ...

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Thanks, Kurt. I'm gonna give it anothr try soon....now it seems there are TWO air filters in there, so I'll probably need another K&N, but sure ain't gonna buy another one till I get it apart. Yeah, they all hibe behind "legal liability". When we took ours to the dealer, as it turned out to get a ta...

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Joe - what kind of batteries does it run on?

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Thanks, John, I hadn't seen that thread, and see where I probably went wrong - I didn't first remove the air inlet hoses and the two little panels. I'll give it another shot tomorrow. It is incredible to me that its that much trouble to change the damn air filter....the "factory" instructions to cha...

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Shoot, I'm gonna let the air clearner compst for a few days while me & the Bride take our middle grandson to the camp for some fishing, coonass style. You hold my beer while I light dis here fuze, cher.....

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You are quite welcome, and thanks again for your hospitality. Its an Old South drink, best enjoyed in a rocking chair on the front porch of the plantation house - basically a sweet old fashioned with lots of crushed mint and traditionally served in a tall collins style glass with shaved ice. Good mi...

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John - its a great vehicle. Tons of room, rides like a limo (air suspension), full time 4WD, and loads of power from an amazing V8. The GL450 is 335 hp and the GL550 is 385 which would be a waste. Gets reasonable gas milage too. Its my Bride's and she loves it. We have driven MBs since 1981 and have...

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Its still under warranty and had one burnt out tail light bulb + the "service needed" light was on, so we took it to the local dealer. Light bulb was free but they wanted something north of a grand to basically change the oil & a couple of filters. I respectfully declined to be robbed. Got a neighbo...

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I'm trying to change the engine air filter on our 08 MB GL450 SUV. I've looked at a bunch of MB forums and tried to follow some step by step instructions, but when I get the cross bar between the suspension towers removed, then unsnap the latch at the rear of the air cleaaner box it's supposed to co...

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Frnak - the first pix is magazine cover quality......tells several stories, all of them good. Congrats.

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I bought new stainless fittings by Perko and they are real close, but like Pete says, the bolt pattern is off. And ditto the tefgel as I'm slowly drilling out the set screws on the old ones and been working on that for about 8 or 10 years....may try again in a few years....awkward place to drill.......

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Bob - had the same problem with my 1100 years ago before CX...its stuck where the barrel slides into the receiver. Opern the action and shoot CX in that jont and try the coke too, I've heard that will dissolve the salt. Freezing is a good idea too....I'd use heat as a last resort, mabe pour some boi...

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Ditto all the above. There is a reason the serious marine industry settled on the straight inboard drive many years ago - simple, and pretty much trouble free vs. gears running in oil under water. Now as to ease of handling, I'll challenge anyone, anywhere, pods or no pods, to a manuvering contest v...

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Why?

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Sure, swimps will do fine....cook 'em about 5 minutes.

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CX makes "Corrosion X for Guns" in a 4 oz squeezee bottle that is the red CX in a handy form. I've been using CX on my guns for years and find it far and away the best. Ditto the ammo deal, its so creepy it gets into the ammo and kills the primers and powder....I shot several boxes of old 22 ammo wi...

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Nope, its too soft. Need the shim to hold the correct angle.

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Made this last night and it was so good I had to share it. Melt a stick of salted butter in a big cast iron skillet or dutch oven. Finely chop 4 green onions and add to melted butter. Press in 4 cloves of fresh garlic using your garlic press (or chop it real fine) and saute' the onions and garlic sl...

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The ground is probably bad to the sounder module. Run a separate hard ground to it and don't just rely on the interconnect cable ground. If that doen't work, wrap the whole sounder module in aluminum foil and ground the foil - if that fixes it, the module is bad and emitting spurious signals, which ...

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Ian - how you cook them things?

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Try first hitting the window frames with a weak solution of acid - I use an "aluminum brightener" available at many hardware stores - and here at Home Depot. I use a soft brush and just brush the acid solution on, let it sit no more than a minute, then flush it off....re-treat any stubborn areas. Af...

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One of the things I've learned from this sandbox is the variety of potions out there to make things a lot easier. One of them is TefGel, a grease-type compound invented and distributed by one of Capt. Partick's friends in WPB. Its for use on threads to prevent dissimilar metals from interacting with...

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All you have to do is make up a business name and open a cash account - no credit checks needed so they don't care. I opened one for our law firm 40 years ago and can still use it. Just think up a glitzy name like "Bertram Enterprises" and call them up, tell them you want to open a cash only account...

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Got mine a little while ago - very slick device. Compared to my Pico its lighter, thinner, brighter, many more features and overall well worth the money. I especially like the 3.5 hour charge cycle....and you can use it while its charging, same as the Pico. And it will take and store photos that you...

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Naw, don't have it but they sell all kinds of industrial counters that are activated by a variety of means, electrical pulse, mechanical movement, etc....start here and find what you need:

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/counte ... alog/N-cr2

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Get your counter at WW Grainger for 20 bucks vs. 70 at Worst Marine. I've got two Rule 2000s with external floats and had lot of trouble with the pumps just burning up for no reason in a few months - I'd send them back to the factory and they would send me a new one, it would burn up, etc....then th...

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My memory is the FB was widened in the late 60s. My 1972 FBC has the "wide" FB, about 6" wider than the earlier ones, but still no rose garden. I have an early GlassTech deck and the hatches were cored with balsa and rotted, but I repaired them with help from Capt. Patrick. I understand now they use...

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As some of you know, I have suffered from macular degeneration most of my adult life and use a variety of low vision aids. These consist of computer enhancement programs and closed circuit TV systems that magnify images. I've used a hand held portable electronic magnifier for several years and love ...

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Deer crack....

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JP - great shots. What's that Bambi is eating? And how did you cut the stills out of the video? I have some I need to try that on.

Congrats, bowhunting is the real deal.

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Lotta boat for the money if the iron's good, sure looks clean.

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Eddy - whichever one you get make sure its compatible with the new AGM sealed batteries like the Odyessy. I plan to change my back-breaking 8-Ds out to the Odyessys when the 8-Ds crap out & not sure if I'll have to change the charger. Y'all come by the camp & go for a sail with us. Dress appropriate...

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Harump.....I learned how to use a sextant with I learned to fly, and also how to "use" a Loran A with the little squiggly lines sitting on toad stools dancing across the scope.....and the sky wave and the ground wave, etc. It all sucked vs. modern stuff. And we stayed lost half the time which cut do...

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And the paint job on the jack stands is outstanding too. I feels yo' pain....did my old B25 a few times before swearing it off forever. Same year I sold my lawnmower.

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There ya go Rocket, see guys, I'm just going full circle. I've even joined a sailboat forum. Very refined bunch of gentelemen. May form a local regatta and have races. UVI type rules too.

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I've got a couple of Calcutta 700s with 30# line on Diawa 7' heavy casting rods I use for small yellowfin jigging, cobia, tarpon and the like. Spinning reels just don't have the leeverage to handle strong fish in a hurry....takes too long. At TSL this year we were casting for bonito bait and caught ...

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Hey Pete, I've been there, twice....first a "Seagoing" brand factory built houseboat with a pointy bow (guess that made it "seagoing") with a pair of 200 hp Mercruisers....belonged to my parents and I bought it from them and moved it to Port Eads....sort of a single wide...that's the one I cut the h...

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JP - I like that....what kind of windlas is that, and where is the switch?

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I wish I had two cleats, will change my one to two one of these days....and maybe two cleats with s Samson's post in the middle? And the strongest backing palte you can find....I like the aluminum. I made a backing plate for my fighting chair out of half inch aluminum and cut it to fit with a saber ...

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