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Morning stockers, rain today

 

Gents.. (and Mike)

 

Really???

I think I’m insulted..


Dono.
Need more coffee to figure it out..

 

Morning Mike ​

 

Connecticut drivers ladies and gentlemen
Trooper on the shoulder for a previous crash...Subaru comes along and BAM!
Anybody need a cargo basket...

 

That’s not good.
The close calls I had during recoveries I could write a book

 

Morning

Heck

repost I know ... I'm tired ... and it's worthy!

 

Reminds me of myself...

 

I'm more impressed that the Subaru managed to get going that sideways with that much traffic

 

Our local weather guy is kinda a friend, we like to keep him on his toes.

 

Little bit of rain, less than optimal tires, and speed will do that. I got sideways in the Subaru a while back making a turn a little bit too quick in the rain. AWD just sent it sorta sideways. Butt pucker moment...

 

Thanks for reminding me, our Subie needs new shoes before winter. 60 K on factory tires, time to start shopping.

 

I got an idea for ya...

 

I'd almost say it takes skill, because even with everything in my Tacoma disabled for Nannie's, I can just start to get the back end out sideways when coming into a corner locking up the drums. Granted I intend on taking my foot off the brakes, but still.

 

My wife loves that new Subaru Wilderness package

 

In Michigan I could have this kinda weather in the next few weeks, or not at all.

 

So after a great outing yesterday, I was noticing a change in thrust in my trolling motor.
Kinda the second time I was thinking about it.
So I went out and ran the motor on the speed I usually run. Seemed ok. But sound was off.
So ran it a little faster and it seemed to struggle.
Put it on hi and poof, it quit.
I had nothing.
So put it on constant and went to the battery.
Just touched the fuse holder and off it went.
So pulled the fuse holder and the fuse fell apart in my fingers



So it took me 15 min to get the end of the fuse out of the holder because of corrosion.

put the spare fuse in it and off it went.



Still didn’t sound quite right.

so I did a voltage drop test and got a .5V volt drop from the battery to a foot beyond the fuse holder.

Decided to cure this once and for all.
I installed a 40amp circuit breaker.


So we will see if I get the full power to the motor now..

I don’t want to buy a new trolling motor this year…
We will see