RobMc

Dick Compensator ????
 
Here's mine
 

OK but with all petrol engines and diesels (when able) on boats (or anything else) if it has been standing for a long time it is prudent to spin the engines over with plugs out or cocks open (diesel). Then if you see any water coming out you know you have problems, if you don't you may have bigger problems, holed pistons one of them).
I would take out plugs, examine with borescope, if ok turn over, put plugs back or close cocks then start, expect white smoke at first as moisture will be there. However if engines warmed up and white smoke still there further investigation is required. I have seen many owners leave their boats for over 6 months, rock up, start the engines then examine their bank accounts to cover the result of not doing 30 minutes work.

The Davy Jones. 
 
A little embarrassed to say I thought that said ‘strippers’. And I was like ‘huh’? Hunting for strippers? That’s what I get for trying to read on an iPhone without glasses.
Although, ‘Strippers On A Boat’ might make for a good movie. Think they could get Sam Jackson again?

The surveyor does a resonance sound test on the entire hull, top to bottom.  He also puts a moisture meter all over the hull to check for moisture in the core of the hull.  Leakage around hatches is very common.  They repair it by pulling the hatch out, drilling holes in the affected areas.  They use heaters to dry out the fibreglass and inject resin into the core where the delamination has occurred.  Once that is set and solid (and it is much stronger than the original wood core) they seal it all up, reset the hatch and call it a day.  It will last the lifetime of the boat.
The engines are 7.4L 454 cubic inch V-8 gasoline engines.  Hence there are two exhaust manifolds per engine (one on each side).  The surveyor uses a thermal imaging camera on the engine, manifolds, heat exchangers to ensure that things are properly cooling and there are no signs of cracks.  The water leaks were found during a visual inspection.  They connect OBD diags to the engines and check compression.  Other than that no surveyor will go much further than that other than to take oil samples from the engines, transmissions and the generator.  They will be sent out to labs for analysis to see what contaminants are in the oil (i.e. coolant, water, particulate, etc).
These engines are direct drive shaft engines as opposed to V-drives, Z-drives or stern drives.
None of this scares me.  It's all fixable.  Just not on my dime.

Well we had the on shore and on water survey and sea trial over the weekend.
A few things were found, some somewhat significant, some minor.  The things we found of concern;
1).  Starboard engine is leaking water on both exhaust manifolds where the spacer to the riser meets.  Could just need a gasket, but who knows.  With water leaking out, it's likely leaking into the engine.  Customer will have to fix this (whether its as simple as gaskets or entire engine) before I would accept the deal.
2).  The starboard deck hatch on top of the front has some moisture and delamination in the fiberglass.  Has to be fixed on the sellers dime.
3).  The port propeller has a couple of nice dings in it.  Its causing a slight vibration underway, but a prop recondition will take care of that.
4).  The generator is in need of a capacitor as it's not putting out enough voltage.  That will be fixed this week by the seller.
The surveyor was really impressed with the condition of this boat.  Other than the delamination near the one hatch on the deck, he said this thing is a tank and in amazing shape for 23 years old.
So we will see how the seller responds to the starboard engine issues and the hatch delamination.    He either fixes them or we walk away from it.  
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Cool - Do they taste like chicken ?

...hax

Got this smallmouth today at Lake Mohave 4.1 Lbs!!!!!!! HeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaW!

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In my day we drank molson X is the excited states of amrerica decided to invade us they would of faile d for the second time in history. I will not get into the first time bbut the second time they would of been so blownaway by our beautiful women adn so drunk ove our fine molsonX  we would of had to say make love not war 🙂 

Nowadays @BUDMAN's Mrs would need a crane ?
 
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Nowadays @BUDMAN's Mrs would need a crane ?
 
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Shall we do a 'Where's Wally)?
Tip - he's just painted his shack

it would be nice to know his player name.

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Painkiller please tell me your ok
 

Cool - Do they taste like chicken ?

It's a sad thing to view, that's for sure. joey was never a sharp ball, and seeing his cognitive testing in real time is embarrassing. Ringo is the same age as joey, yet he plays for hours on end & can remember the words to every song, and he's still witty. Yessir, there comes a time when you should step back from the heavy lifting, because age comes to us all.

Decided to get a couple leopard geckos so I had to build a new enclosure. 
I do everything the hard way, but I thought I'd share some more pictures. 🙂
 







 

I also looked it up. This is what I got...

Politics aside, seriously, watching this man perform on his Irish tour was painful, if he was your Dad/Grandad you would have him in care for his own welfare. All countries should have an age limit on their leaders, I'm not being ageist but this man shows worrying traits of behaviour associated with natural degeneration. If his political opponent gets in next time you're going to have the same scenario?

Drooling joey doesn't have an oar in the water. He'll sign anything his nurses put in front of him, so yeah, all bets are off when it comes to portable wealth.

That A-hole was arrested this afternoon!
Like he thought they wouldn't find out or find him....
 

This begs for HXTR    ????

And they're Hunky Dory now lol???????
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He's got TWO ambulances in his motorcade in Ireland, must have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin?