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it was clean, with a little corrosion on each contact.

Installed new cap and rotor this afternoon. It seemed to idle cleaner. I idled around a bit to simulate trolling and then gassed it in neutral. No floating carbon or gassy sheen on the water. I bought plugs for it, but didn't swap them out yet. I wanted to do one thing at a time. My dad(career diesel, gas engine and heavy equipment tech) didn't like the look of the inside of the distributor. The yellow $hit flakes off into a dust like corrosion or something. I cleaned out what I could and blew it out. Any thoughts?

I love this cartoon.

thanks. Good luck out there. Leave a few for the rest of us.

Chas, thought about that too. All good suggestions. I will be working on it in Sawmill Bay at the CYC. You may see me out on the bay in the afternoon. Thanks all.

I am hoping cap and rotor too, and a set of plugs will do her good. We are going that route first. Chas, carbed motor. I don't have a kicker. Yet.

My heart is breaking. Looks like I will miss the opener. I just posted in This Old Boat. 'Nuff said.

Well, it looks like I will be missing the walleye opener this weekend. Here's why. The last time I was out on my boat, powered by a '97 Mercruiser 5.7, I noticed two things: first, when I started it, there was quite a bit of black smoke(not blue) coming out of the exhaust, second, when trolling at just above idle I noticed a gassy, oily sheen on the water behind the boat. It was running fine. Temp was good. Oil pressure good. All things normal. I stopped and revved it up in neutral and it put out a massive float of carbon on the water. It looks to me like it is overfueling and loading up the cylinder heads. Funny part is, it is performing great. Starts right up. No loss of power, no coughing or hesitation to plane and runs like hell across the water. Ethanol free fuel always and fresh this year, and a fresh oil change this week. We are thinking maybe cap and rotor, maybe timing chain needs to be replaced. Hour meter reads 2100+, and was unplugged by previous owner. Any thoughts? Matt

They will cost you some $$, but look at Chaco sandals and shoes. They started making a water shoe as well. Everyone I know that wears them, swears by them. My self included. They wear like iron and have the best arch and heel cup support out there. If you really shop around, you can find them on sale.

I see what your asking. The trees you bought don't rotate in the base. I would say mount them on the gunnel either way. Maybe someone else will chime in with a better suggestion. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Every set I have ever seen, and the set I had mounted, were mounted right up on the gunnel. I really liked it there. It made for a clean and neat fishing platform, while still having me a good place to store rods while underway. I simply rotated the trees 90 degrees towards the transom. This puts them flush with the side of your boat, and gives you a good place to store rods until needed. I suppose you could mount them inward of the gunnel though, like on a bench or something, just as long as you could still rotate them outward to troll with. I attached a pic of my old boat with the trees mounted. Not a great pic but you can see how they would rotate to travel, or to troll with. Hope this helps.

Depending on the diameter of vertical tube, a company by the name of high seas gear sells just the mounting plate. Their website is www.highseasgear.com. Hope that helps.

Interested. Where you located? Not really into shipping it.

I'll take the walleye boards. PM the PayPal info.

I know how you feel. I gave up lacrosse years ago. I coach all Fall though to make up for it. Soccer followed by volleyball. My biggest project on the boat is to bottom paint it. It stays in the water in Chaumont until September. Good luck with your season.

The Proline i bought in August is in the driveway, to be rigged. Just waiting for some freezing rain and snow to pass before I unwrap it. Hard to believe this conversation is happening in the middle of March and this year.

How much? $65?