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If you're not mechanically inclined arrange to take the boat into a marina/dealer etc. and have them do a complete inspection hull/systems/motor. You wnat to know stuff like 1/are there any soft spots in the floor or transom 2/does the motor have good compression etc.

Also take it for a test drive.

It's a big purchase just like a car and you wouldn't hand over $20K and hope for the best would you.

ya I was just there lol. I got the right ones I know I do. I wonder why this is why its hard to start sometimes, the guy has the wrong plug in it!

I have a '91 and they are not the easiest staring engines around to begin with.

I have found that the beast way to start mine when cold is to pump the fast idle lever a couple of times and leave it all the way up then push in the key (primer) and spin the starter, push in the key again while turing over. It will usually catch at this point, if not pump the fat idle lever a couple more times and push in the key and turn over again. Once the engine catches you will need to push in the key a couple more times (when the engine starts to stumble and the rpm starts to drop). Could be 2 or 3 times (depends on how fast the engine warms up). Once it runs on it's own drop the fast idle lever to a reasonable rpm to finish warming up.

Can't wait to get a nice fuel injected 4 stroke for my boat.

what if my serial number is A728264?

Click the check mark that coresponds to your engines year Here

i.e. the check mark on the first row of the chart.

Take off eh.

 

Wish I had a job there and could live there Dave.

Not here.

I have to drive 3,000km to get there.

I leave on the 3rd of September!!!!

I'm mostly after them giant resident rainbows though.

Like this 40"+ fish I posted earlier.

While I haven't fished there in years I would doubt that anything has changed.

My favorite depths to run lines at this time of year are 27' and 35'. Don't know why it's just where I always started. Run out to about 70 FOW and troll out until you start finding fish (or head towards the pack). Make sure to run cheaters too (extra lures in the water and you cover more depths).

Trolling speed is usually in the 1.9 to 2.2 MPH range for me.

Good Luck and post how you do.

OOPs almost forgot.

There are over 1.6 million sockeye and kings in the river already and the silvers are coming in good.

Just not in Bowmanville!!!!

Please tell me it's not beginning... NOT YET FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hey guys I am changing the spark plugs on my 89 merc 90hp. I went to the marina and they gave me NGK BUHW-2, when I took the covers off it has BU8H plugs in it? Did the guy before me use the wrong plug? It runs fine now so should I replace the plugs with the same or should I be using the ones the marina says it calls for?

 

Thanks

Use the ones the marina sold you the BU8H's are incorrect for that engine.

Check your serial# against this Chart

This Chart shows the engines that the BU8H plugs are recomended for.

Got this picture sent to me a couple of hours ago.

It is a giant Alaskan Middle Kenai bow caught last week by a friends buddy.

These guys are the reason I head there every September.

Just 8 1/2 days to go.

Those are the same type of plug that are in my 91 Merc 90hp.

They are bulit that way for a reason. They don't foul as much or often as the available spark gap/generation area is much larger than on regular electrode type plugs.

When I lived in Ontario my boat ins was through Meadowvale Ins. Brokers and the policy was with Dominion of Canada. Great policy (full replacement cost) and great pricing (300 and change a year on my $20K boat).

what a nice shade of blue it comes in too!

You gotta be kidding me!!!!

That colour is horrible!!!!

Now a nice navy blue would be nice.

Lots of people without power, but maybe not much else.

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/wild-storm-knocks-out-power-for-25500-ontarians/article2141271/

Here's a better article on the storms last night.

Storm Info

Haven't got anything booked yet but do have 2 big trips planned.

April to Florida for 10 days of flats fishing and my annual fall trip to Alaska.

This years Alaska trip begins in 9 1/2 days and lasts for 38 days!!!!

The roads that are being closed were built with our tax dollars

Better rethink that as most of the roads in question were built by the lumber companies so they can extract the lumber from the area. The gubberment just sold the access and timber rights to those companies.

Looks pretty mellow out there.

The worst of it has been staying to the North but there is a set of strong cells heading straight towards the Bruce. There's a nasty cell heading for Parry Sound too.

Best be battening down the hatches!!!

I did send you a message Dave...

 

I had SERIOUSLY hoped to spend a few days in Yellowknife with our friends Dan and Sue who were off work for weeks at that time. They are awesome the pair of them. This would have given me time for a pint or two for sure. BUT, my Aeroplan points could only get Bren and I flights for the friday, and the connectors put us in there at 10:30pm night before GBL departure. Gave us only two hours to spend with anyone.

 

There will be a next time... probably not for some time though. I do have it in mind to visit Dan at some point for a Great Slave and/or Nahanni tour. So who knows?

 

You, as anyone should know, that Plummer's surely has something special going on for those getting the treat to visit.

 

 

 

DanC... sent ya a PM.

Carl... I'll let it slide this time. lol.

I did get the message Drew.

MEH, it was ok.

Too bad you didn't have time to drop in Drew.

Maybe next time.

There is definately something special about that area.

Probably the reason I spent 15 years up there.

Reading this report brought back some memories and I may have to take a trip up again soon.

what a beauty!

I've seen that guide's name (Paul Castanelo) before, maybe on bob Izumi or something. I guess it was definetly worth paying for a guide!

Yes Paul Castellano has been on Bob's show as well as The Fishin' Canada show lately.

Cast Adventures

And yes that smallie is a giant!!!!

More info here: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=208314

Notice how close the epicenter is to the local nuclear plant.

This is the site I use for all my important disaster info.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

Well that seems like a complete cop out by the crown.

If they weren't going to take it to court they should have let you know prior.

I hope they are made to reimburse you for your time and expenses that you incurred because of their stupidity!!!

May you hook into a freight train 'nook this afternoon Ron.

Good luck Ron!!!

Lets hope we'll have an internet hosted celebration later today.

You are correct.

Connect the yellow/brown and the green/brown together to the brown on the new plug.

Mind you, we are going for a weeding so 3 or 4 of those days are completely occupied already.

Can't you just stay at home and weed your own garden a lot cheaper?

Yep, you got a stuck needle.

Used to happen all the time with the 30hp Merc Sea Pros we had up at Great Bear in the mid 90's.

The heavy bobbing in the waves causes the needle to pop out of the seat.

Our fix was to pop off the cover and rap the float bowl with the handle of a screwdriver.

It would fix the issue every time. The issue usually rearedit's ugly head when traveling into the waves due to the steepness of the front of the wave and the sharp drop when cresting the wave.