Bernie

Mmmmmmmmmm. Specks. Had one for supper last night. Still my favorite fish to eat. Nice fish Ben. Didn't look like a lot of ice there Ben. You must have been careful, you did report.

Yes but the price of cars has come down. .....so insurance should come down too......right?... Ya....sure!

Powassan-- for 51 years! Well..... except for time spent in Nipissing So ....Powassan--for 25 years.

I can see this becoming the next pink Tu Tu.

Holy $^% . I guess it does.

O ya I heard those 2 foot albino octopus work wonders.

:lol: :lol: Good point Brian!

It is scary Gerritt. This also makes the one year old car value go down the crapper too. Price of used cars in general are worth much less as well.

I remember that one too douG. At that time we only had one TV channel.

Must have downed him on the first shot. He's using a Remington Semi.

nope. ....He just punched a hole through the glass.

I bet you are not going to stop anytime soon either Ben. Rumor is you are going ice fishing tomorrow.

Why is that Wayne? Are you a bad influence on him?

Just don't ever leave the remote on the seat of the car like my wife did one time. I went to back the car out and hit the door.

Polliwogg raises a good point here Peter. Something I did not consider . Was that a possibility?

Always good to make plans early if we can G. Chat on Tuesday night?

Have you a spare propeller? Can you borrow one? This would be a good place to start. There is only one forward gear. I suspect your propeller hub is slipping. The hub is usually made of rubber and is designed to slip in a hard impact to help protect the components inside from damage. Sometimes these hubs will let go and slip when put under a load. Hopefully that is all that is wrong.

No big deal. Just want to make sure that it is understood. Tires with poor or faulty construction will cause a pull with no perceptible wear. It happens often with brand new tires. We find this happens often when switching summer to winter tires or vice-versa. Switch the front tires to see if the pull goes the other way. Yes you can tell a lot of how the alignment is on a vehicle by observing tire wear. In this case it can make the situation a little more difficult because the work was done in 2 shops. Where were the tires before? This is another good reason to stick with a good shop. They can keep track of your vehicle history and make recommended repair and maintainence much easier.

Peter was the tach reading 4500 to 6500 rpm or 450 to 650? It can't run at 45 to 65 rpm. If it was revving very high it could be a propeller slipping or maybe a broken gear or shaft. If the rpm wasnt going high it could be a fuel issue. Any weird noises?

Not boring to me either. Looking forward to Nipissing freezing up. At least it will get me out of the house on weekends to go out to the cottage and cut some wood. Then in January for a little wally fishing.

Egad. I missed this post Gerritt. Whats with the bandage on Joe's finger. He have it where it shouldn't have been? Smoke? Hmmm didn't bother me before.......but.......... Hope you guys had some good times. Maybe sometime I can make it to Quinte.

Did they ask you any questions of why you wanted the alignment? What adjustments were done? Did they switch your tires around? If they adjusted the alignment to suit your tires you may need to realign with new tires. I always look at alignment specifications and align to specification plus my experience of road crown and vehicle type (manufacturer specs are too broad). Never to suit the tires.

Wonderful post Ben. It's easy to see you are in your element. Congratulations!

This happens quite often. A tire or tires is the culprit here. It generally happens with less expensive tires but not always. When a tire is rotated it sometimes will put a tire on the steering axle (which also supports the most weight) that isn't true to the road. What I mean by that one side of the tire is pushing to the other. This will make your car drift left or right. It would not have been so noticeable on the rear axle which carries less load. An alignment isn't the problem, the tires are. If you try to align to correct a tire pull the next time you swap your tires it will pull again. This is why we take a car for a road test before and after every alignment. We see this happen with tires approximately in 20% of vehicles that come in for an alignment.

Never used CLR before but I suspect it must be a mild acid to dissolve calcium. Let me know how it works out for you. Bill M. some are easy as pie others are a dude.