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I also bought a Suzuki from online outboards for all the reasons you mentioned. Part of my calculation for doing this is also getting older and while not less agile just yet. I certainly will be a few years from now. At the ripe old age of 73 I do not want to waste my time fixing things when what I really want to do is floating and daydreaming on the water. The 9.9 I bought is top of the line with an extra long shaft and T&T. I love just looking at it, let alone motoring with it. It's pure unadulterated luxury. I did not even mention the 5 year warranty and the almost silence on the water when the engine runs. (Admittedly I am a bit deaf) I added a little servo and actuator hooked it into a trollmaster3 system and now I can be away from the wheel and steer and control speed everywhere in the boat with my wireless little gizmo hanging from my neck As for the 20 horse. It is the same block as the 9.9 and going that way may mean falling in the same trap of pushing the little motor too hard and creating the same trouble of early wear and tear,which you are dealing with now.

This may sound weird, but may I suggest that the next block you buy is a 1970s or 80s. What happened is that OEM constantly tried to squeeze more horse power out of the same block size. In the late fiftees there was the 30 and 35 hp block. These were very sturdy solid blocks for their range. As time went on using the same basic block , they went to forty, fifty and in the end even 55 horse engines all based on the same size block. Obviously, the more you squeeze out of a block, the harder they work and the worse they wear. In my experience the late seventies and early eighties pre1985 and preVRO is where the best blocks are found. I still have 2 very good 1957 35 horse Seahorses that I never had to work on apart from regular maintenance. I think that they have well over 3000 hours each. I would choose not to hone but to go oversize. Honing might actually bring the compression down even more. Having a good machine shop do the work might cost quite a bit but it will get you a new block If you know how to rebuild a jeep in your driveway, you should not have any problems with a 2 stroke on the work bench in your garage. Until you have time to do such a rebuild you may want to run the engine on a 1-32 mix , it tends to bring the compression up just a little.

I would start with decarbing the engine, then pour some steering fluid or better, magical mystery oil into the cylinders and let it sit overnight. This will loosen up sticky rings. Now let it run until it is warm and then do a compression test again It may well be that the compression has gone up quite a bit. If not, go ahead and do a complete rebuild with the help of a factory manual (not some Clymer or Seloc). Go oversize if you have to, or if you really want to, go perfect go for a resleeve.

I never thought about that little trick. Thanks!!

Any old lawnmower battery hooked up to the plus and minus of your battery hookups with your perko in the right position will do the trick. You can also pull your car close enough to the boat so you can connect jumper cables to the plus and minus of your battery hookups and that should do the trick. As long as you provide power to the system it will work

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If you have a good gps map on your rig ,it will show the the pipe and where it splits up. It is straight in front of the treatment plant. It is a great place to catch brown trout...

Gambler is on the intake end not the outgoing. The treatment is very basic indeed. Lime was pumped in with the sewage. Just to make things a bit clearer. The sewer from Henrietta is a mixture of runoff that comes from the catch basins on the roads (not all of them) , ground water and raw sewer. It normally is treated at the Frank Van Lare treatment plant and then released. But the amount of runoff from all those catch basins just completely overwhelmed the sewer pipe lines. The level became so high that it started overflowing into the overflow system . That means that the overflow is actually quite diluted because of all the rainwater that is mixed in at this point. Still not good, but not as bad as it sounds at first

that should have a pm. Now it is in the public domain and any fire on your property will be seen as susupicious.

You just pointed out the problem with these "controlled" hunts. The "hunters". Since when does the fact that one is a policeman or fireman for that matter, make one a good and responsible hunter? Or is this often a little adventure thrown to people as a moral booster?

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