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  1. GFinch

    WAR10 is almost here

    Finishing loading up tomorrow and were on our way Sunday. 8 or so hours and well be at Lake Shasta. We'll stop off at Willams and get some supplies. Gas and market in Redding and on to Salt Creek. My health is good, the boat runs and I'm ready for a vacation :beer:
  2. GFinch

    Shasta Time Trials

    Whats it going to be distance wise. 600', 800' What classes will there be. Drag boats, fishing boats, house boats. Need to know so I can get used to holding the pedal down just long enough. Stupid thing gets scary mid 70s or so. Bill are you volunteering to set it up again this year? I'll...
  3. GFinch

    Correct measurment... HELP

    I have a set of steering cables out of my XB2003 center steer. How does one measure them correctly. Looks like their 14' and 15' measuring the plastic silver covering, but when I put them up for sale I want to be correct.
  4. GFinch

    California shaken not stirred

    Just had a good shaker(earth quake) a couple of minutes ago 4.0, 9 miles away. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71271840.php
  5. GFinch

    Trim Systems, whats safe

    With the mishaps and accidents in the past due to trim systems whats safer and whats not. Trim timers, limit devices etc. I don't want to become a "Trim Accident Club Member". My OMC has a 2 wire pump so it is like some of the Merc systems. I understand there is also a 3 wire Merc system. I...
  6. GFinch

    WAR09 pic's

    Tuesday. A few pic's of the last weeks event. Launch JohnR tied up and BadBait's Stoker JohnR doing some safe drinking.
  7. GFinch

    OMC E-Tec pans and cowl

    I know it says for sale butt, I don't see a parts wanted aera. I'm looking for a low cost set of pans and possably a cowl. Has to fit a 3.3 E-Tech It will go on the Sack O Cats new engine. It doesn't need to be pretty just inexpensive as cost over runs have gobbled up funds.
  8. GFinch

    Smallies

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT23lCTaNvw
  9. GFinch

    Strake Question

    O.K. here I am again. Looking for help from the family. I have read the patents and taken a few sections and pics from them for show and tell. My question is about the strakes (88 90) on YOUR boats. Is your pad strake longer then 2 feet. How long is it? Is it the same as the two outer...
  10. GFinch

    TIF Image

    I'm computer illiterate. I need to know how to change a TIF Image into an image I can post here. Speak slowly in small words. Thanks
  11. GFinch

    Jasper Thrash 2008

    Just want to say to those that didn't go to Jasper, you really missed out. I got home yesterday around 5 pm, tired and sore from driving since Monday AM. Thanks to Lou and the other Allison board member who greeted me at the launch ramp, sorry I was so busy and can't remember your name, but...
  12. GFinch

    Polling and Voting

    IMHO. When a poll or vote takes place it should be done as to gain the highest consensus. First a list of places.... Second a general discussion, pros and cons. Third the list posted. Then start to weed out lesser places by a series of votes with discussion, not by just one list and one vote...
  13. GFinch

    Whipper, This Vids for you!

    Checking timing http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jasper071021settingtimidp5.flv A little boring trailer trash vid. http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jasper071022startingontlq0.flv
  14. GFinch

    The Sack O Cats is dead

    Well at least it didn't give up during the War08. It warned me several ways, butt gave up a week later this Saturday. I felt it and the pyro flashed the pending doom, butt she got me back to the dock before giving up. The broken flywheel bolt has been a source of mysterious aluminum flakes for a...
  15. GFinch

    Pad Questions

    Here it is: On a XB2003 1994 year model what does the very end of the pad look/feel like. I'm fairly sure somewhere in it's life time my boat's pad has been abused/sanded on. I've read the early XB2003 's pad is different in length or set back but what about the very end/lip. And the lip should...
  16. GFinch

    Hooking my O my. Why!

    1994, XB 2003, Hyd steering w/Allison cylinder 8" Rapid jack at what I believe is 1/2' below to even with the pad. 3.0 OMCease Taylor bolt on EFI, MSD, ported by Al Stoker. 16" Taylor mid, Sportsmaster lower, swept skag, ground in tab. 1.62 gears 26" chopper. 3 Odyssey 680 battery's in front...
  17. GFinch

    Mirrors on Allisons

    I'd like to see and hear input on mirror styles and location on our boats. I have a XB2003, butt any pic's of mirrors are helpfull. Where you mounted them, what brand, where you got um and why you do or probably most important, don't like them. I know Lou, Commander of the Western Fleet, has...
  18. GFinch

    I'm calling you out Butch!

    :shock: Butch Lislie you have got to put a couple of pic's of your boat up so I/we can see it! That thing is wild! :shock:
  19. GFinch

    Again??????????

    Sort of a newbe, well things have changed and I have questions! Early XB2003 1994 to be exact. I think I read somewhere the pad to transom distance is different then the newer models, therefore requireing a longer setback. What I'm working with is far from the norm also. I'll start...
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