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Default Rumor of Ethanol causing older outboard engines to 'blow up'?

HK wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:06:57 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Good - gotta be better than tying up between two deadmen in a channel
huh? :)


For sure.

Tranny repairs suck.


Yes but this is a good place to get work done. Some of the biggest
builders of custom sportfish are just a few miles south of here - lots
of good people and lots of resources.
It's also an interesting area to poke around in. Kitty Hawk and the
Wright Brothers Museum are a few miles north, Cape Hatteras and
Ocracoke about 60 miles south. There are miles and miles of deserted
beaches, big dunes, interesting wildlife, etc.

It took two guys a day and a half just to get the tranny out. It's
built like a battleship but probably needs a few dollars worth of
hydraulic seals which will take about 8 man days of labor to replace.



Maybe you can scan the bill when it arrivesand post it for our reading
pleasure. Two and a half days to get it out, eight man days to fix, and
what, another two days to reinstall it?

$7500-$10000?







You really are an asshole, Krause.
 
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