fishinwrench

Ya! Nothing could be less fair, unbiased, and reasonable than FISHING !

Some people think that everything you post on a fishing (BS) forum has to be rooted in hard data and 100% fair, unbiased, and reasonable. Others feel it's a great place to blow off steam and to dump random erratic thoughts that rattle around in their head.... mostly for entertainment. I am among the latter. If sitting in on a conversation here had to be like attending a court hearing you wouldn't hear much outa me, that's for sure.

MDC appears to support the whole idea.... So confusing.

The thing that MDC data doesn't show, but is a reality, is that probably 80% of catch/keep group doesn't even go fishing prepared to actually harvest fish. They don't have a cooler of ice ready to put the fish in. They throw the fish in the trunk of their car, drive 40+ miles back home, stopping on the way to eat McDonald's, and end up feeding the hot, dry, rigor mortis carcasses to their neighbors cats. They are flippin' idiots wasting something that a whole bunch of us actually care about.

100% agree.

If you just bend the eyelet 45-90° on an inline spinner it will end the twist.

Regular ol' GG. Cost alot to do a whole boat, but I was in a pinch to make the carpet stick and stay put. It does the job.

I used Lowe's marine carpet on a Jon boat mod recently and although it was a bit stiff and hard to make corners with the finished project turned out fine. The adhesive is what always gives me fits. I used to use Henry's outdoor/marine stuff but they have apparently altered the formula because the last can I got was terrible. It felt different going on but I thought it was just my imagination. The stuff dried, cracked, and let go after a few months of use and I had to redo the whole job with Gorilla glue and staples. Used Gorilla glue on the last job and as far as I know it is still holding fine. Less messy to use too.

Excellent! Fix that, then verify full timer base movement and the condition of the throttle cam roller, then take her out for a spin. Happy Boating

Excessive ethanol in the fuel will cause problems with OLDER rubber components, but the new expensive rubberized compounds are fairly impervious to it as far as I've experienced so far. Things made of rubber have never lasted FOREVER so I don't see what all the hullabaloo is about. Personally I don't have any problems getting outboards to run good on any fuel that gets brought in here....as long as it is reasonably fresh. Ethanol enhanced fuels do NOT have much of a "shelf life" so if you buy some you need to burn it up ASAP. Don't fill your tank and expect it to last 3-4 months, because it will go bad way before then. A couple weeks tops. Treat it like milk and I don't think you or your outboard will have any problems with it.

I don't demand statewide regs. In my eyes nothing should be done "statewide". Each watershed is different and should be treated/managed independently. Managing fish and wildlife begins with habitat. If you don't manage the habitat then you are wasting your time and the taxpayers money by pretending to manage.

It's 90° from that. Nobody here seems to want something for nothing, they want a resource protected and improved, and they have been paying for its protection and improvement for YEARS. Welfare recipients? GTFOH ! If they (MDC) want to protect the catch and keep folks rights...then work to improve the habitat so that catch and keep is beneficial instead of detrimental. Keep cows out of the river, monitor gravel mining and land stripping, concentrate on water quality, erosion, and the things that are effecting it.....things like that. They don't give a hoot about catering to the catch/keep group, that is just the EASIEST and most CONVENIENT excuse for doing as little as possible.

That's fairly common. Odds are that the crankshaft is fine, and the cylinders can be repaired. For less than the cost of a reman powerhead alone you can overhaul that powerhead AND completely refresh the fuel, cooling, and ignition systems. Parts, labor, and machine work combined.

In more ways than one. I've never seen a gigging boat with a red/green bow light OR the standard stern light turned on.

I get pissed every time I see their brand spanking new John Deere equipment, and their brand new fully loaded 3/4T trucks w/o a single scratch in the bed. If any of that s#it was getting used it wouldn't look so fresh all the time. They do still sell "service model" trucks, right? Minus CD changers, power windows and mirrors, seat heaters, ect. ? Surely someone there could come up with ways to at least APPEAR that they are not pissing away money just for fun. WTF do you need a fleet of new fully loaded 3/4 ton trucks for, if all you ever haul around is a notebook and a cell phone?

Just in case you're wondering why high volume dealers would rather replace a powerhead than rebuild one, take a look at the mark-up. 30 seconds on the computer, and you just made 1800.00 plus sold 8-10 hours of labor to swap it out. Dealerships make the majority of their money selling parts. Repair centers do it by selling service/labor. Dealerships hang lots of certificates on the wall and love to crow about "factory trained technicians". More often than not their factory trained technicians are nothing more than "Parts Changers" who earned a certificate by sitting through a seminar in a far away town with a wicked hangover. Those certificates are nothing more than attendance prizes, nobody leaves without one.

The "thing" is.....if you just swap the powerhead (without disassembling and analyzing the old one) then you never really know for sure what caused the original powerhead to fail. Powerheads don't blow all by themselves, they blow because something that was bolted onto them failed. So by simply replacing the powerhead, with no teardown/inspection and analysis of the old one you have a 99.9% chance that it will blow again. The 1 year warranty isn't worth diddly if their analysis 8 months later shows a lean or overheated cylinder, or if there are any signs of detonation. Just keepin' it real.

Inlet valves are leaking. You need a carb job....but not before you verify compression and check the linkage movement, throttle cam position and overall sync. The leaking inlet(s) are not what's causing the loss of max RPM's.

Yes the Windyville guage is above Moon Valley. When it crests and begins to fall out at Windyville you won't notice it below MV for 4-6 hours. It has been crazy lately with constant ups and downs. It takes about a day and a half for that water to reach Leadmine (where the next guage is).

They've got us by the balls. If you cut their funding they'll start gating off accesses, they've already threatened that. Even though such access areas have been bought and paid for BY US many times over. I appreciate what we have....and I'm thankful for it.....but they have long forgotten who got them to where they are, and they are arrogant as hell. They didn't PROVIDE those places for us out of the goodness of their heart, we bought them, and have been paying them WELL to maintain them. We owe them nothing. They owe us a bunch still. If they ever go broke or even come up a tad bit short on a project, it will be their fault, not ours.

I'd have to check it out to be sure, but if there are no holes in the block and the crankshaft is still ok your best option (for quality of work and $$$) is to have it rebuilt by a reputable shop. The quality of remanufactured powerheads is always questionable. There is seldom any attention given to tolerances and port tuning. I only recommend a reman powerhead when the original one simply cannot be saved.

Good deal. The 3 prong plug is for the old 12/24 setups that are nearing extinction now (thankfully). They will still work fine for either 12V or 24V units as long as the red and black wires are used (terminate the Orange wire).

Yeah, replace that fuse link with the appropriate circuit breaker. Is this just a 12v motor running on a single battery ? Your wire looks way undersized to me. Is that the TM leads that came standard on the boat? It looks like that link has gotten hot more than once, so I would pull the plug at the bow and inspect the connections there also, I bet they have overheated too.

I may be interested in buying the prop 50. Shoot me a PM if a trade deal doesn't work out.

Did you check to see if the breaker was tripped ?