A nautical mechanic like myselft, Mercury, Tohatsu and Honda outboards dealer and mechanic here.
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My friends and I were burglarizing a jewelry store in '03 and being broad shouldered I had to literally grease up to get into the airducts. Sliding through the vents made it spread down my jumpsuit more and just made a real mess. At some point one of the guys went after a display that had a separate alarm we didnât know about and the place lit up like Christmas morning. We ended up tossing a chair through a window to get out of there quick. I was the driver but my hands had accumulated a good amount of grease on them even through the glove I was wearing and I was fighting that wheel to get a good grip. Hindsight I never should have been the one to drive.
Anyway we got a single block away and cops came flying up on us. Four guys in a Grand Marquis in black and blue jumpsuits on an otherwise completely empty and closed street was pretty obvious I guess. I was banging turns like crazy skidding wheels and just trying anything to lose them but these roads werenât built for speed. Long story short they pit maneuvered us and spun me into the side of a building when I tried to cut through a parking lot.
As they were arresting us the cop handcuffing me said âwhy are you so slick?â referring to my arms and another cop said âslick driving too there slickâ and then as they walked me to the car he said to watch the ice spot saying âwatch itâs slick here just like you speedracerâ. At the station they kept calling me speedracer and then in jail the other inmates heard it and followed suit. From that point on they just called me speedracer. Anyway I went to sign up for OG and lophophora.ca was taken so I thought Slick1 had a ring to it.
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As long as it wasnât that v6 mercury they put in some of the speedster and challengers, that motor was a pile o shit
Rotax all day
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They had so many crappy motors⌠Man you need weed in your life so you can keep going for back pain, I have worked in small places but work on these in a trailer is back killing game, 3 is the number of jetskis I have serviced before giving up on those things.
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Ya they really do mess with u back on trailers, Iâve always put the skis on shop stands which did get u close to the skis and easier on the back. Majority of the problems with the skis was the grey fuel lines melting now that we use ethanol in our fuel, I just change everything, clean the check valves for tank vent and pressure relief valve and rebuild the carbs with genuine mikuni also doing needle and seats and new jetting to spec. 9/10 times they are turn key after that, the other 10% is electrical or inner crank seals spitting oil into cylinders or low compression
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Or that or the old test tank, but I donât have one. Nice is when a rope get sucked by the turbine, you can work laying down.
I do everything but nowadays is mostly a carb. Clean hera and there, some electrical jams in older units, usually if well maintained a outboard can last up to 25-30 years without major problems.
I got a nice seadoo, 2 stroke and pilot was peeing water but the block completely blocked with sand⌠Too bad, was a 2 stroke brp sea doo.
Nice to see people from the same line of work here.
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Well I suppose I have the least imaginative screen name, lol. I am Douglas Earl Dawson named after my Father Douglas Wayne Dawson and his father Douglas Leonard Dawson. My Grandfather on my mothers side was Earl. I always hated how some folks can be on the internet. So fake and so not what they are in real life that I decided I would just use my name on all the sites I go to. My way of saying âWhat you see is what you getâ sort of thing.
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I collect cookware.
Just fucking with you haha, Iâm a stoner.
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Im Jet, ran hydro for decadesâŚJetDro
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Could be stoner cookware! 
WTF am I laughing at. Here I sit
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Stoneware?
All my stoneware is glass haha. Well my Dyna vap isnât. Well, I guess part of one of them is. Doesnât matter, Iâm clearly also HAF.
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Sorry to be daft afâŚ
I like books and Iâm in the UK.
SimplesâŚ( Now thatâs a UK reference for yâall)
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Firehead
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Cannabis was the first âdrugâ I took and it certainly wasnât the last. My 20s are a blurr.
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OMG! I havent seen that video in decades! 
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A lot of people havenât seen it ever. I seen it to early I think 
It dictated my life up till now but I regret NOTHING 
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I was the one always telling every one to pause for the cause. You know take a smoke break lmao. It stuck
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2 of my most favorite songs.
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haha thatâs frickin awesome
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