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Now that's a deal, wish I would have saw this a few years ago, !!!

i don't voice my opinion about much, but my daughters would love to hold a fish of that cal. I would think the same people would bash others if someone did a plant & release if those fish were kings??

Yea Bob every once in a while that little diode light comes on my head and my brain comes to life.

I had a 140 inline motor, that I bought knowing it was cracked, we used marine weld on the block that boat and motor is still going today. I didn't want to say that on the count of the repercussions that might have come flying in my direction. There's no pressure in a regular system, I don't know much about the closed systems, so I wouldn't know why it wouldn't work, if the cylinder check out and the heads hold pressure??

Bob I don't have 4-5 grand laying around, I've had grease under my finger nails since I was a kid. Had a starter & alternator shop for 22 years before I fell off a ladder and snapped my spine off in the opposite direction we bend in I fell 2 stories on top of a outside air conditioning unit, 5 years till I got back on my feet and my wife held the fort down for 3 years before I got my disability, and then they declared me disabled from January of last year, I didn't get no big back pay check, I was fit to be tied, and I had to go before a judge to receive my disability. After all was said and done the judge asked if I had any last words, yes your honor I do!! I guess I'm from the wrong country to receive all the bennies, the green card folks in this country get, that my 15-18 hrs a day sweaty ass pays taxes for right??? No comment sir. I guess not!!, so now I have to do what I have to do to enjoy my favorite sport, pass time, that's my family, my daughters play fast pitch softball and of course fishing!!!

Just sucks you have to spend several thousand when I know what it litterly cost. A block a few hundred a short block closer to if not 2 grand and a $100. Bucks an hr. To bolt your own goodies back in place, but I guess that's what keeps the world going round??

OH Ya ain't that Fun LOL

X2 also Cabela's sells down to 1/4 oz to use on the OR snaps I added the 3/8 oz weights to my Laurvick releases to get them to slide down the line. Worked good.

To bad Frank you can't find a block, it doesn't need to be a 4bolt main either, that's only if your going to turn the old girl 6,7-8 thousand rpms. I thought I had a gold mine of a block so I went through Mercruisers motors and a lot were 2 bolt mains, if your a fisherman like me I turn my 350 3200-3800 at most cruising. So don't let them sell that bag of bull, get your heads reworked and all your internal parts are good, pistons, crank rods, really you need a 150$$$ block. I used up the spare I have but I know a guy that has a block for sale, for $150. Do you know anyone that could put the motor together for you.?? That would save you a lot!! Just an idea.

Hell cant you buy a new one for that kind of$$$???

Then just buy shinintimes mast!! You can pick up otters anywhere.

Nice job either way, that's a monster eye, mind giving its length & weight? Thanks pap!!

I used Mothers VLR vinyl, leather, and rubber cleaner, works great. Took off that black colored stuff right off my canopy plus is adds to the softness and it makes the top more weather resistant and block UV rays that cause more damage to your top. My top is 35 years old. But it's time for a new one, my aft curtain I can't put on unless it's sunny so it stretches, so need a new one of those. This year I'll have one put on buy someone up there. Around here they want you to remortgage your home for petes sake!!

I have a set of Rivieras collapsable double boards I would sell if you want big boards, they pull good and nice to fold up takes up hardly any room?

LOOKING FOR A KICKER MOTOR LIFT Hey guys was wondering if anyone has that motor lift that you hook on the back of the motor cover where the handle is in the rear of the motor cover and it makes for a easier method of tilting your kicker. I'm looking for one. Thanks PAP there like $30 bucks to purchase, but I thought if someone had one I'd buy it to get some of your money back, if nothing by the end of next week I'm going to buy one. Thanks to those who looked.

Man that would be great when out at Galloo shoals and around the green can to motor out to main duck island.

Love it when plans come together. Great,idea KilliansRef

Should all match up, my original motor was a 5.0 and I move to a 5.7 everything was a perfect fit, mine was a Mercruiser.

Yes that was my first thought, I would get the heads reworked if she's got some time on her, & oil pump get FelPro gasket set for main motor,

Hey Frank your not alone, I have a very simular story, less the starter, I winterize my own boats for ever, well I don't run a thermostat so no worries there. Went to tractor supply and bought 5 gallons just to make sure I got all the water out. My usuall plan of attac is fire her up run it till I get 130 degrees with my laser temp tool, then I use a bildge pump put it in a 5 gallon pail my daughter hits the key I hook up the pump, soon pink is flowing out the exhaust so I add another gallon just for sake of mind, right before my bucket is empty, I give my daughter the shutter down sign. Ahh now we're good till spring. So I needed a tool I knew I had left in the boat, so shyts and giggles I took a look under the engine cover, to my surprise I see a pink stalactite hanging out the block, so I looked closer I'll be dipped in shyt there's a crack in my block between #3-5cyl I just built this motor, my heart fell out my sock, to be honest I sat in the Capt. Chair and cried like a baby, so I took the hose of and yup it's froze bone hard. The next day I towed the boat over to my father-in-laws big garage, he's got it heated. So pulled the motor had the heads pressurized and the manifolds, all checked out other than the block, so I had another block but it was standard bore mine is punched .30 over, so I decided to punch this other block .30 over, so all my goodies went into the new to this boats motor. Then back in we timed it and set dwell . Then I unhooked the power steering and lower water pump hose and drained block, and blew the rest of the water out. I did tests on the RV antifreeze the pink is good to 50below. But it slushed at 28 and at O Degree it freezes bone hard, but according to peak it does not keep the fluid in the block a liquid state, they claim it doesn't have the expanding properties as water. If you read the label it says for boats marine, but not to be used in the motor at all, I told the rep I wasn't using it for a cooling type of antifreeze, he told me to read where it says not to be put in the motor period!! So I got a lawyer freind of my wife's he said I don't have a leg to stand on!! I nearly puked so I'm not going that way anymore. On the side the starter is on its impossible to reach that block drain, so I'm puttin a fitting in the block that a hose can be attached with a hose clamp and a shut off in the end of the hose I now can reach, and I'm going back to the old school ways, and I'll blow the rest of the water out then I know it won't freeze and bust. Good luck Frank, I feel your pain, hopfully splash down this comming week, towards the end of the week.

Wouldn't expect anything less Kevin, absolute kick azz pail of fillets!!

So we can go over the line without phoning in now? But must stay aboard, is this correct??

That's a work of art there pike freak, where did you land that monster?? No specific spot eastern basin western, type thing.

I'll second the 200gr hornady bullet, works so sweet in my pump, it groups like a bolt action.