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jigglivetroll

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  • Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):
    Fishing, Coaching Baseball
  • What I do for a living:
    Mechenic
  1. I would do the water pump, it is on borrowed time. The labor overlaps so you should save a little to do at this time. Belt driven pumps often will fail after having belt removed and new one put on anyway.
  2. This is not just a GM problem. Brake line replacement has become a very common job in our shop. Most manufacturers are using thinner cheaper lines that just don't hold up. People who only use their trucks when it snows or when they hit the beach have it real bad. A daily driver that gets driven everyday gets the benefit of rain ocasionally to help wash some of it off. The biggest pain with the fullsize GM products is the 1/4" lines are harder to work with. Most everyone else uses the 3/16' or 4mm line.
  3. Keep in mind a Lead Acid battery lasts longer if fully charged. Sulfation of the plates eventually kills them, the better the charge the less sulfation occurs.
  4. My daughter and Son in law bought one and have yet to get posted MPG's. Not broken in yet I will ask them what they are getting.
  5. Thanks for the reply, my plugs are new. Someone told me to ck. magnets on stator, they were good. I ran the boat last night and when it started missing I put a timing light on each cylinder until I found the culprit. I was going to swap coils, as soon as I went to disconnect the coil that was missing I found the problem. The primary lead was loose and rusty. Problem solved, thanks again for your input.
  6. My Evinrude has developed a missfire when hot. When first started motor runs normal, planes off with no problems. After I shut it down to fish or whatever upon restart it will breakdown under load. Boat will plane but can hear motor is not hitting on all six consistently. Sound familiar to anyone?
  7. I can tell where not to! Blackbird Ind., A1 outboard, or 1outboard as they are known on Ebay. Complete ripoff and their 1 year warranty is a joke.
  8. I am sitting in a Shell Station right now and we have never had a tankload delivered in a truck with meters. We pay for tankload and recieve it all. I have seen a truck with meters but not delivering to us. Of course we don't take anyones word for whats delivered tank levels are ck-ed regularly and drivers are spotchecked to prevent theft. I stiil maintain you are not getting Citgo Gas at a Shell station. Thats like selling Pepsi and telling people its Coke you cannot legally do it.
  9. FA there is something going on there, we are seeing bad or dirty Air Flow Meters cause knock in alot of vehicles lately. What year is your Jeep and which motor? Since about 1988 computer in cars in trucks do have addaptive strategies to compensate for wear and carbon buildup and other factors. On Chrysler based vehicles a mechanic can reset all or individuals adaptives with a scantool. You can do it by disconnecting battery for about a half hour. Have you tried to decarbon your motor?
  10. You don't know what your talking about. A tanker delivers one load of gas at a time. It has no metering device on it to put half its load at one station and continue on to the next one and dump the rest. They do have seperate compartments that they can carry different gas in. If you go to Shell you are getting gas with Shells additive package, it might have come from the same refinery but it will have Shells additive package added to it. Usually a tanker arrives at a gas station with all three grades sold there in three seperate compartments and if they don't dump it all they are stealing from the retailer. Theoretically the truck you saw could have had Shells mix in one compartment and Citgos in another but I have never heard of it.
  11. I haul five 5 gallon cans at a time. I do it after sunset so its not so stinkin hot. I put the can on the gunnel and use one of those siphon hoses that you shake. I can transfer 25 gallons without spilling a drop. My buddy used to fill his 29 Robbins with a 50 gallon drum in the back of his truck. He could back up to his slip at the community pier, of course the busybodies in his community shut that down. But other members of his community could continue to use 5 gallon containers.
  12. I'll disagree with you, 5w30 oil is 5w30 oil regardless of wether it is synthetic or conventional. Why do you think they put the viscosity on the label. Don't get me wrong I am all for Synthetic oil. I use Mobil one in all of my vehicle's B/C it does not breakdown like petro based oils.
  13. I prefer the braided over the twisted. Its much easier to work with.
  14. Yeah I am another can hauler, my low compresion oceanpro doesn't require high octane and I am not paying for it. Fortunatly my dad owns the pier so I don't get any grief. I do it after sunset when its not so dang hot.
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