Everything posted by boystcroix
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Bilge, Aerator, And A Flooding Problem
I was thinking that the chambers were filled with foam and the holes just drained water to the bilge if water got into the hull. I didn't know that there were sealed flotation chambers. By the way what is the hull made of?
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How Is This Possible?
I don't think they're harder to work on, alot of times the OBD leads you to the problem, they just require special equiptment. I do find that the smaller size of some vehicles, like Nate says , makes them difficult becuase of the placement of components and the need to remove unrelated parts just to get to what you after. Although this isn't limited to just small vehicles. Take a look under the hood of a 2011 F-350 with 6.7 deseil , its dizzying trying to figure where to start if you had to remove the heads!
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Little League World Series.
I live in Williamsport, PA, home of the LLWS. The game held on the first Friday of the series was incredible. The Mid-Atlantic team was from Clinton county which is only about 30 miles away, the crowd was over 40,000 that night. I have never seen that place packed with that many people and I've been going for over 30 years. The series is fun to watch because those kids put their all into it and just want to play ball. The series has become very commercialized over the years, especially since the big TV contracts with ESPN, but its still a great place to take your kids and watch some good ball. Congrats to all the kids who played this year!
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Bilge, Aerator, And A Flooding Problem
It sounds to me that the holes are drains into the bilge so that everything drains to the bilge area. I wouldn't seal them off until you're sure.
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What Rod Do You Use For Fishing Wacky?
Mostly with a 6'8' MXF Legend extreme spinning rod, sometimes with 7' MF Legend Extreme casting rod.
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Oil For Reels
I use Sid Harvey's motor and bearing assembly oil or 3 in 1 SAE20 oil. Some suggest using Rem-oil, however I've never tried that. All are widely available at most hardware stores.
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College Roomate?
When I first went to college I also was tripled up in a dorm room. There was one single bed and a set of bunk beds, I was the second guy there so I ended up with the bottom bunk. First week of school I come in late one night to find all my blankets and sheets lying on the floor and the guy wit the top bunk is lying in the single bed with some chick and he tells me that I'm gonna have to wash my sheets. I don't think so - he got a bloody mouth and I got new roommates!
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Earthquake!!!
I just thought someone was bringing a dump into the garage at first. It reminded me of being in a treestand when the winds blowing a little.
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Jig/worm Rod Suggestion
Check out the St.Croix LTB70MF. They are very sensitive for bottom fishing and cast weightless senkos a mile. They are rated for up to 5/8 oz. but I've thrown over 3/4 oz. with my extreme and never thought I was over doing it on that action.
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Rod&reel Quiver
My woman got me the same one, but from LTD commodities catalog
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Channel Cats
I use live creek chubs that I catch in a minnow trap, or nightcrawlers. I have heard of using canned corn too.
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Would You Keep Carp To Eat?
I knew an oldtimer that would put them in his spring house water fo a week or so to "clean out" their systems before he ate them. Never even tried them myself.
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Thoughts On A 80's Lund Pike W/08' 50Hp Mercury
Make sure you check out the wiring also in a boat of that age, I got a boat that was 15 years old and ended up doing alot of rewiring. Wiring is not that expensive or that hard however, especially if your doing deck work anyway.
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Recommendation: $300-$400 Baitcasting Combo
St. Croix Legend Extreme and 200e
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Late-Night Snacks
I would eat a box of cereal every night before bed when I was still in high school. I weighed 215 then, now 255 and probably don't take in that many calories all day.
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Motocross Anyone?
I always liked how Hodaka named their bikes. Like "Dirt Squirt" and "Combat Wombat"
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Recommendation: $300-$400 Baitcasting Combo
Go with the St. Croix LTB 7' MF and the 200e7
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Reels Made In Japan V China V Korea V Malaysia V Usa
Sorry, I work at a water and sanitation authority. I'm around "duty" alot!
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Ants In My Boat
Terro is great , I bought a boat that had sat out in the woods for a couple of years and had a number of ants in it. ( a squirrels nest too) The Terro got rid of them in a couple of weeks, you just put a couple drops on a piece of the box and put them in a number of spots in the boat. Good stuff
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Best Plastics For Smallmouths?
Cabin Creek salty spider jigs
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Enough Truck?
You should be fine launching the boat, you may be somewhatt underpowered towing on road with steep inclines . I too have found that trucks and SUV with 6 cylinders get around the same gas mileage as v-8, especially if they are 4X4.
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St Croix Legend Vs Shimano Cumaro
I have aLengend 6'8" M/XF in the extreme series, I use it mostly for fishing small spider jigs and weightless senkos. I think it has plenty of backbone to fish t-rigs but would not be my first choice for the application.
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Reels Made In Japan V China V Korea V Malaysia V Usa
Gotta disagree with you on GMC. I work on Fords , GM and Dodges everyday and most of the time its a GM on the lift. Take a look under a Ford Superduty and compare to GM Heavduty, you'll see which is truley heavy duty.
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Motocross Anyone?
I haven't had a bike in a long time, but at one time I had an 84 CR 490 , 82 RM 250 and an 89 CR 125. All two strokes , man would that 490 blow smoke and haul ***. Any how I broke my forearm on the 125 and ended up with two titanium rods holding my arm together. I had the bike for a couple of years after that but never had the balls I once did on it. I still get to motocross nationals at Steel City or Unadilla if I can every year.
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Favorite Shotgun
Agreed, I have one in 16 ga. Smoothest pump action made IMO