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  1. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    And to answer you Macka i priced a new engine and would not get any change from $18000.00 the Dragon lady told me to go do myself, so after a long look over 13 months i found the engine on the back which is a 200 hp optimax with only 387 hrs from new and i paid $8000.00 these motors are good...
  2. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    The mig wire used was .9 diameter 5356 grade and any aluminium i used for the pod and deck was 5083 ok.
  3. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    New update on the boat project, swivol seats now fitted, batery box welded into place in the old engine bed, sounder transducer fitted, vhf radio ariel fitted plus am/fm radio and speakers fitted, i had to order new gear and throttle cables as the ones supplied were to short by 1.5m man they...
  4. rustyhooks

    Whinge of the day thread...

    Just back from a 1100 round trip to Geraldton to look at a house to buy and was shocked that diesel was cheaper than in Perth, we paid $1.68 on leaving Perth and filled up at Dongara for $1.62 on return, so yes go figure, around geraldton most expensive was $1.89 but most were in the $1.69 mark...
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    40E Permit's for WA - information and questions

    Hello Tim1512 i start out when doing a search to do a 40e by useing landtracker which shows all of the leases, pending and live, you also can use there MTO to get owner and some details, the area you are looking at is quite good as we have visited it 3 times over the last 6 years and we did get...
  6. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    Update on the boat, inside painted three coats of Northane Pearl white and unmasked, now for the refit, checker plate dash and guages in plus hydraulic steering today and if light permits seat pedestals and seats, tomorrow wiring loom and cray winch and tipper, plus rod holders. (8) Pics to follow.
  7. rustyhooks

    Persistence pays off

    At the mention of KGWS my favourite Fish here are a few of my stonkers from out East of Esperance town at a secret spot, the ice box is just under 50cm wide from memory the biggest was a little shy of 58cm most others were 50 plus all caught in 2m of water
  8. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    Progress report: First coat of Jotun 2 pack in black to all of the sides, it will need a light rub back with some 200 wet and dry then a final coat and mask up, then i will do the insides in 2 pack cream, after that we are applying Kiwi Coat to the floor and bow area.
  9. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    Well here i am back again after all the welding and cutting plus sanding and grinding at long last i did a final acid wash (Alibrite) and have now Hit the sides and the interiour with Jotun high build one shot 2 pack etch primer, i am now off to Widgemooltha area for a long awaited detect for...
  10. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    Update on the boat project i had some outragous prices to finish the welding locally ranging from $2000 plus to $3000 plus including consumables, now seeing as i did all the cutting and marking out plus the new aluminium, i bit the bullitt and bought a Unimig Viper multi function welder and...
  11. rustyhooks

    Anyone got an opinion on the 2021 Hilux? Good? Bad?

    I had a ford ranger previousley and had a good run out of it considering the off rd work it did but its fueleconomy was *****, when we decided to up grade and after doing a trip with my younger brother in His Isuzu Dmax i became a convert, the problem with most of the latest 4x4s now as i see it...
  12. rustyhooks

    New boat Project

    Hi thought i would Post about my new boat project, which started earlier last year, just a little bit about my boating history as this is my 24th boat, since getting my first in 1976 which was a Stejcraft, along the way i have had four commercial boats and was a commercial Barramundi fisherman...
  13. rustyhooks

    Dieseling engine

    I n my dim past in the early seventies i started a lister diesel gen set on a frinds station in the Pilbara and it bouced backwards and almost stuffed up there switch board in the shed as the bloody lister decided to fire up in reverse , exhaust coming out of the air filter throwing oil every...
  14. rustyhooks

    New Television advice please?

    I bought a 75" hisense smart tv and i recon its great by comparison to my old 42" lg 3 year warrenty nas has all the bells and whistles and now at my age i can read the bloody writeing. :o
  15. rustyhooks

    Sharpening Chainsaws

    Crack off the oil filler cap after use as the oil expands when in use & hot and allows the pressure to continue leaking out the oiler port, is most common on all makes of chainsaws. This has always worked for me
  16. rustyhooks

    Trilobyte App

    I had the same dramas between my iphone and my ipad like Nighjay, sadley i stuffed up in buying a wifi only tablet but fixed now by buying a Bad Elf dongle for the ipad ($250.00 on Ebay) and it works a treat,You have to make sure your Android is gps enabled, i also contacted the Trilobite site...
  17. rustyhooks

    2021....

    Funny i just noticed the drill bit also, hehehehehe, we just cleaned out some more shed ***** and i gave away a full set of morse taper drill bits and and a maybe a couple dozen or more tip tools some with the small removeable tips to my gunsmith mate plus 4 pakts of tips all left over from our...
  18. rustyhooks

    DPF PROBLEMS

    We finally bought a new 4x4 dual cab ute after our ever reliable Ford Ranger Started Using oil after 385000 kms, after much research we set ourselves the task of buying a near new Isuzu Dmax, its an excellent tow vehicle and as it turned out the price was in our range after selling our Ranger...
  19. rustyhooks

    2021....

    Wicked Photo set mate and nbice looking country!
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