OhioFisherman

Reason for the fraying? Carefully inspect your rod guides, I have seen them with small cracks or chips. You can do it with a q-tip it will snag on a crack or chip. Water you are fishing? zebra mussels? they can play heck with the line. A lot of my fishing was on Lake Erie and it`s tribs, lots of zebra mussels, line needed constant attention and monitoring. Even with heavier pound test mono cuts could be felt. It doesn`t take much of a nick in the line to seriously weaken it. Down here zebra mussels have spread, they are in most of the waters now, even ones without an easy connection to the Great Lakes. I used 10# test for bass at times, sometimes even 8#, but was a lot more comfortable with 17#. The only braid I gave a serious try was the old spider wire, didn`t like it, it may have improved over the years.

I have shot a .50 Desert Eagle, a kid could do it.

Hmmm, Lund, Ford, both have 4 letters.

I was lucky when I did mine, one of my customers shops put the insulation on bare copper wire, I have a bow mount and wanted the batteries in back. The had wire with extra thick insulation(6 gauge) I ran it under the deck and cut garden hose and cable tied it to any points that might get more wear. I use quick connects like on small electric pallet jacks to connect the wire to the batteries. My boat is 16`8" for that long a run I felt better using 6 gauge wire, a welding supply house might have something you can use, like from an arc welder? http://www.andersonpower.com/products/multipole-sbs.html

Not real familier with Ford products, but ignitions switch assemblies can go bad. The one on my wife`s Chevy Astro went last year, the lock on the steering column is basically a lock that moves a lever under or thru the steering column. They had to drop the column to replace it.

LOL, thanks Wayne, you got me drinking again! Sorry about your lack of luck? Something has to go right!

LOL Ditto report! Wanted to go there!

LOL fishnsled, growing up in Cleveland there was a doctor that had an office above the drug store at the corner of the street, he parked his 300SL on the street, got to walk past it on the way home from school, cool car. I lived about a mile from an industrial section, about 10pm on Friday night it was street race place. LOL high test was 35 cents a gallon.

No I didn`t stop Joey, it was a busy day for me yesterday. Got to meet my new doctor, I waited like 10 months for the old one to leave the practice, we weren`t on the same page. New one seems ok, I don`t rush to the doctors for something to do. I have been up there when the had the cars before though, they do have some great ones. Just not my thing anymore, LOL I gave up cars for fesh! A good car will pull a boat!

LOL Joey, the Dairy Queen in Medina has a classic car night, I was by there last night and it happened to be the night. Lots of great Detroit iron sitting there, some real classics and street rods.

CCD? Conservative Canadian Diplomat? They are a great tool, er, I don`t have one and never used one. I don`t think owning one will guarantee you will save your lower unit. Caution and a good map can do that. They do make it easier to get back to the same spot on open water?

Same with Tony myself, just my guess that a bass could out run the prey a tube is supposed to imitate, if it wanted to. Don`t know how much time they spend planning their angle of attack, just guessing not much, it`s smaller than me, eat it. Can`t recall ever having lost a fish cause the hook was stuck in the tenicles, a firm hookset with a decent hook should solve that.

Nice fish and report Mike! That river has been in the mags for smallies, seen articles on it.

Rick don`t they have devices for handicapped people that allow you to talk and enter? New boat? stay off or cut down, you want to be able to use it! Good Luck Bud!

Rotor wasn`t pitted, outside of it was chewed up by the pad backing plate. Other side was fine no pitting no abnormal wear, but I changed brakes as a set fronts, rears so it got done also. Slider pins wear greased and moved normally. All the hardware on both sides looked the same, nothing seemed abnormal. I will pull it back apart in about 5000 miles and see if there is still a problem with odd wear patterns. LOL kids, dad my car is making noise, well ya look in your wheel slots the rotor is trashed. Nice thing about disks is you can see them.

side the good pad hit was fine, nice smooth polished surface not irregular marking a normal wear lip, side by the bad pad gouged and grooved but evenly same as the surface of the pad plate, about all that was left. Good pads on both side had roughly 30,000 mile left on them. Couldn`t turn the rotor wear didn`t seem to indicated it being warped even damage all the way around it.

Gas at the town gas station here is 3.249 a gallon the highest ever, according to the news reserves are down refining capacity also, not a good outlook for summer driving season.

Raf, I used a big c-clamp to compress the wheel cylinder piston, the right side went in just as easily as the left so I didn`t see it as the problem. Did not appear to be seized, normal compression force. The brakes work fine, I replaced both sides and the rotors, nothing looked abnormal, nothing felt abnormal except for the one pad and rotor on that side. LOL I have done this before and never encountered this problem. 150 bucks for me to do it vs 300 for a shop, a shop did the one he had problems with but for the previous owner. Doing my own brake jobs saved me a lot of money to buy reels!

I did a brake job(front) on my sons 2001 Malibu yesterday. He has had the car for about a year and the front brakes had just been replaced when he bought it(by a paid mechanic) Drivers side pads and rotor were perfect, just normal wear for 12-15 thousand miles. Passenger side had problems, outside pad was worn away, evenly but gone inside pad was in the same shape as the ones on the other side,some wear but normal for the mileage. Rotor was trashed. I saw nothing unusual, the holders slide, not stuck I greased them to make sure. Any clue what could cause the ususual wear? Took the car for a ride when I finished and everything seems perfect, you can take your hand off the wheel and hit the brakes and it stops in a straight line no pulling or roughness.

Great pictures and report, LOL maybe you will see spring by August?

I used to take mine and mix it 50-50 with new gas and run it thru the lawn tractor.

You can also use pegged worm sinkers for the weight, they make some that are a simple cylinder with a hole, they don`t snap as much and with a rubber peg slide off easily if you get snagged.

I fished the junk a lot, weeds, wood, boat docks, the slop. I wanted a line I was pretty confident was going to get the fish out or way from it, 17# Stren has worked well for me. Away from the cover I will go as low as 8# but not often, usually for a finesse presentation or to get my lure to run slightly deeper. 10# was my all purpose line, good for smallie fishing and walleye , steelhead on Erie. I usually stick with Stren but use Trilene and Vanish once in a while. I don`t like to play with the fish much, if I can get them in the boat as quickly as possible and release them or play with them in the livewell. Line is a factor in the running depth of a lure(crankbait) a smallish crankbait will run deeper on smaller diameter line. Just like lure and reel choices though for the most part, what your comfortable with.

Never caught one myself, or even seen one. They used to be pretty common in Lake Erie, dad used to ice fish for them, but I think it was in the late 40`s, early 50`s. There have been some reports here of them being caught once in a while.

Improved clinch for me also, easy to tie and no breaking problems. I don`t use floro much just some vanish but used it on that also.