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On Jan 3, 7:11?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:20:08 -0800 (PST),
wrote:
That's exactly the $ range I was thinking, Tom. And I know that
the
electronics aren't up to snuff, especially the paper chart! I'll
be
using my stuff if I buy it. I'll look at the problem areas you
suggested, like the rear deck, and like you, I'm a little (more
than a
little!) leery of the motor, that's the main reason I was asking.
I'd
heard of those vintage unEvinrudes blowing up. I like my very old
Evinrude, but in that year range, I'd really rather have a Merc.
Thanks for the input.

The base engine is fine - it's the VRO that is flaky. I replaced
one
of mine on the 393V I owned, but never had another problem. Other
guys
who ran them went through two or three of them. ?It just depended.

Oh, with respect to the hot foot - give it a chance - you can
always
remove it if you decide you don't like it. ?Personally, I'm
ambivilent
about them. I had one once and it didn't really annoy me as much
as I
thought it would.

Good luck with it.

Went up and looked at it last night. Besides the hotfoot, the
hillbilly did quite a lot of..... let's say.... customizing that I
didn't care for. Then he told me that he had replaced the VRO
system,
but when it failed it didn't do any harm "as far as he could tell".
The battery/electrical wiring looked like my 8 year old did it. Now
all of this wouldn't have been bad, I love having a project, but he
wouldn't come down to anywhere near 3 grand so I passed!

The more I looked at it, the more disgusted I was:
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...l/CIMG0341.jpg

Yes, you would certianly thinkt hat if a person was wanting to get a
NADA like value out of it, they would at least have the energy to
clean the thing up and make it presentable. and I see from that red
wire what you're talking about. it does look "patch 'n go" . Yeah,
like I said, if it's good enough for him, then it's good enough for
anybody. Yeah, the validity of the engine would be a huge concern.
especially after reading the comment:

"Then he told me that he had replaced the VRO system, but when it
failed it didn't do any harm "as far as he could tell".

i believe you were wise to balk 'n walk.


The bottom line is that the fact that Booger was interested in it
shows his taste in and knowledge of boats. I would think the boat
would look nice next to his double wide though.


Explain to us just what's wrong with a double wide except there are
some wildly exaggerated connotations connected to it.


sigh

That's probably how much you know about them.


Which trailer park do you live in and have you recently *upgraded* to a
double wide?

I can guarantee you that if you had the privilege of being inside my SO's
parents "triple wide" you would not know is was not a site built home. Not
located in a "trailer" park but on 5 acres on the shore of beautiful lake.