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I'll add that in my case, it had a Force 50 hanging on that PT-130 for 17 years before I hung the Merc on it. When I rebuilt the Merc I completely removed the hydraulics and pump assy from it because it didn't work anyway. The Merc is a four-cylinder 44 cube powerhead, it got bored .020 with new...

We've had one on our Alumacraft for years. Never had a single problem with it.

Well, I must say we enjoy the change in seasons up here. Plenty of stuff to do outdoors in the winter time too, we like snowmobiling. We had 8ft of snow this year so the snowmobiling was really good. The lake ice here is still holding up but we're starting to see pools of water collecting on it...

Nothing recently. The boat works good for us and we enjoy it. Right now, though, we're waiting for snow and ice to melt up here and the boat is on the trailer.

Women are different in the pelvic area too. I don't have a PhD or anything but I don't need a PhD, nor to study bones, to tell you that. If a man tried to perform childbirth with the pelvis he has, probably bust something and blow a nut.

It's possible that a dude with ear rings and a PhD doesn't actually know, because everything he thinks he knows came from books and he's never actually had any interaction with a real woman before. This would be typical with these PhD types, long on book learnin', a little short on experience...

We live right on the lake here and we exclusively fish walleyes at night when they move up into the shallow weed edges to feed. Usually a very enjoyable time for us - all the jet skis and powerboats are gone off the lake, on 4,000 acres of water there might be only us and one or two other boats...

The only reason to hook them together is if you want to run a charging circuit from your starting system, charged by the alternator on the outboard, to the trolling system. We have this in our Alumacraft Pro 17 and there’s a switch on the panel that connects the two battery systems. In our boat...

I guess I had never heard of that one yet. But it begs the question, without a breakaway what else gets destroyed if they didn't have a PT-35 on there? Bust the entire lower unit and gearcase? Or tear the transom out of the boat?

What would be so much better about Bob's vs CMC? They're basically the same thing, different company. Just maybe the fact that Bob's Machine builds them for small outboards, where the CMC units are bigger and more expensive? We've had a CMC unit on our boat for a long time because the stock pump...

I eliminated the primer bulb in our Alumacraft Pro 17 with a '85 four-cylinder Merc on it. Got rid of the quick-disconnect at the fuel tank too. Instead, I put a small electric inline pump in the fuel hose. Just press the primer button on the dash until I hear the little electric pump lug down...

We have a 1986 FLH that has 432,000 miles on it. We've owned it since new. The original 80 cube Evo that got new cylinders and pistons twice in its life was replaced in 2017 with a S&S 96 cube stroker with a mild touring cam in it. The paint and leather seat on the bike is still original. We've...

I've never seen where broken studs or bolts come out of aluminum castings with any consistency by heating. We have exhaust manifold studs break all time in aircraft engine cylinder barrels. When one breaks, put a zip disc in an angle grinder, cut the protruding part of the stud off so it's flush...

We also bought a new Minn Kota PowerDrive that the steering didn't work out of the box. Bought it from a local retailer. Took it back to the store to have it replaced, but they didn't have another one in stock so they refunded our money on it. At the time couldn't get a new Minn Kota trolling...

I agree with the other two guys - it'll do fine. We don't have a Minn Kota, we have a Haswing Caymen 55lb with the wireless remote control. I prefer to the leave the outboard trimmed down so the boat tracks straight in the wind. With the outboard down and the prop windmilling on the outboard the...

Well, if you're not familiar with it, you wouldn't know. Avgas is not even like the old leaded automotive gas used to be - even 100L contains many times more lead than any automotive gas ever has. Unfortunately, even soaking lead fouled pistons in diesel fuel won't dissolve those hard brown...

Just pull the exhaust cover and look in the exhaust ports. You can see the rings, piston crown, opposite cylinder wall, and the near piston skirt by looking in the exhaust ports with a flashlight. If there is excessive deposits built up in the ring lands and scuffing of the cylinder and/or...

The marine and small engine industry has given ethanol blended fuels a bad rap with lots of myths, despite the fact it is used in millions of automotive engines every day without a single problem. I use E15 in my 80's outboards and not a single problem with it. But I've rejetted the carbs for...

The aviation gasoline in common use before 100LL was Avgas 80. It used motor octane rating (MON) instead of RON. It had slightly over twice the lead content of 100LL. Its use was banned by the EPA in 2009 when the last refiner of Avgas 80 went out of business. Everybody had to switch to 100LL...

In aircraft engines the valve seats and valve material can't be changed without getting a STC (Supplemental Type Certificate), which is very expensive to get. So the same materials are used for replacement parts at overhaul as what the engine was originally certified with. Those certifications...