fishinwrench

Easy there, Hotshots. Fish will humble you quicker than a honey badger. Anyone that pretends to have that much confidence in themselves is just begging to be dinked for a whole season. Bring your kayak up here, and I've got 1000.00 you can try to easily take from me. Should be a piece of cake for ya because I haven't caught a limit over 16 pounds all year, and have been practically skunked a dozen times. 🙂

Aren't computers great.......when they work right?

Pete?!! "We need to find a wizard or something to turn him back !"

I know it does that. Just the other day Sugarbritches and I got into a hilarious battle of wits over ELECTRIC BLANKETS.....and soon afterwards we both started getting ads on our phones for them. I hate electric blankets, but the fact that we immediately got those ads caused her to declare victory.....so guess what? She immediately gets online and freakin' orders one! I'm gonna intercept that SOB from the FedEx dude and donate it to the crackhouse down the road. 😉

Windyville sausage ?

Phone. I do everything on my phone these days. The only reason I ever get on the laptop these days is for Google Earth scouting.

When they first started putting electric fuel pumps inside the fuel tanks there were fuel pump failures galore in every brand of vehicle that was equipped with them. Fuel pump failures are way less common now it seems.

I'm afraid to search it. Since you have.....what is it?

Y'all keep saying this, but I get the most insane ads on here all the time, including some that are borderline porn. Say or think whatever you want, but I haven't looked at any online porn in ages. My internet history is nearly all fishing/hunting, marine or automotive related. Maybe a few other random searches, but certainly nothing that pertains, even remotely, to the rediculous stuff that clogs the pages when I visit here (and NO I never click on it). Honestly, I don't get those type ads anywhere else but here on OAF. I'm not OFFENDED or anything, some of them are actually pretty funny.... but it is kinda odd. Sugarbritches has looked over at my phone more than once when I was BSing on here and said...."Is Ozark Anglers full of a bunch of old pervs, or what?". 😂 And I just say Hell Yes! 😁

Here's the techy answer, if you're interested..... The engine block can be washed if it isn't hot. No you won't crack the block by hitting hot steel with cold water, but you can cause gaskets to fail if the engine has aluminum heads or an aluminum intake manifold because the aluminum will cool off too fast and can warp. Same with valve cover gaskets and the oil pan gasket. You can also crack hot spark plug insulators by hitting them with a blast of cold water. All engines are designed to heat up and cool off uniformly. This is why you on have "heat shields" over certain components. So basically, if you're gonna wash the engine with WATER...then do it when the engine is well below operating temperature. Once done, and the engine is dry, hit all the moving parts and electrical connectors with WD-40, then blow off with compressed air, and after that drys hit them all with silicone spray.

Has the body features of the mudpuppy's we occasionally caught in the Salt river tribs when I was a kid, but I've never seen one that color. Possibly pale ( by comparison) from living in clearer water.

This sounds just like a typical Gravois Mills Pitbull story. I hope I'm wrong....but I bet I'm not. "Oh they are great dogs, that don't deserve their reputation". Yeah, right! 🙄

I think he's spot on in this instance. The electric car/truck thing is NOT going to work. It just isn't. Yes an electric car will transport a person. It will. But it will never EVER replace internal combustion engines. Automotive Technology has lapped itself and is now sucking hind tit. Auto makers desperately need to cool their jets and back up to where they were 15 years ago. And so do marine engine makers...... because they are all just screwing up right & left.

Any of them, really. You have to use a compass to select it's mounting location, to ensure no interference from metal stuff nearby. And be sure to use stainless screws to mount it.

I pulled the fan motor the first time the be resistor failed and the fan blades did have some light trash in it. Not enough to hurt it, I don't think, but nevertheless yeah. When the resistor fails, the ground pin is always discolored (overheated).

My '04 Tahoe has some electrical weirdness going on, all seems related to the body control module. Probably a dirty ground connection or a bad pin in a connector somewhere.....but I have checked and cleaned all of them that I can find. Door open ding-ding-dinger is very faint (can just barely hear it) sometimes, and it has repeatedly blown the front blower motor resistor 3 times in 2 years. I've gotten to where I can swap that 60.00 POS out in about 4 minutes flat. 🙂 I upgraded wheels & tires and had a Rough Country 3"lift kit and suspension installed. Ever since the lift kit it has had a rattle somewhere in the rear that I can't isolate. Only hear it on bumpy washboard roads. Sounds like something loose inside the back door. And I can't get the stupid tire pressure monitors to pair with it's controller.....so I get a constant Tire Pressure Monitor not communicating code. I run 10 ply BFG/AT's though.....so having a flat just AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. 😉

I've had 4-5 Minnkota trolling motors brought in because of spot lock issues. And in every case it was either a jighead, jigging spoon, or a pair of needle nose pliers thrown down on the deck within 6" of the GPS puck. That'll screw them up Everytime. 😅 If you think I won't charge 120.00 to move a pair of pliers.......just try me. 😁

That's what my Fishwagon ('99 Z78 stepside) has, and is currently at 276k. That truck has spent it's entire life hooked up to boats (some rather heavy ones too). It swallowed a 4l60E tranny at 225k and an alternator at 230ish. Otherwise she's been a peach. I wouldn't hesitate to hop in her and head to Yellowstone tomorrow. Ford needs to learn how to build rear-end differentials. Every Ford that pulls in here towing a boat starts slinging gravel on the passenger side. Even the 1 ton dually's. Any other truck (Chevy, Toyota, Dodge) just crawls right in without ever slipping a tire. You'd think that as long as Ford has been building trucks that they'd have a rear end that WORKED RIGHT.

Ok, so it's after 5:pm. What's the solution?

A 20#+ limit of bass is special ANYWHERE. Even the Florida and Texas guys can't pull that off everyday.

I blow out the engine compartment with 160psi of compressed air a couple times per year. Blow off the air intake and cabin filters, and hit the doors, tailgate, and hood hinges and latches with silicone spray, and scrub the battery terminals with a wire brush. If anything is greasy and nasty then something is leaking, so I either FIX IT or have it fixed ASAP. I'm not one of those mechanics that fixes everybody else's stuff.... but let's his own stuff go to hell (very common among lazy mechanics). My stuff gets all the love FIRST. 🥰

Is this POS still under warranty ?

I fought with keeping dry flys floating for years, but I finally figured it out. Here's what you need... https://www.madriveroutfitters.com/p-6493-frogs-fanny.aspx I treat them with Ginks immediately after I tie them, let the Ginks dry out before putting them in my box, and then do the Frog's Fanny treatment on the water after they get slimed and soaked. 👍 I've also heard that if you liberally rub Ginks into a spool of thread you won't even need to treat the fly at all. Haven't tried that though because I don't really care to have specific spools of thread for drys. I do know that the dubbing wax I have sinks like a rock.....so I don't use any. Spit floats 😁

Ok, so who do you suppose will win this battle? The standard trude, or the parachute?