New to me toy.

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I went over today and picked up my new to me CAROLINA SKIFF. It is an 04(not 05 like I initially thought), with an 04 75HP HONDA outboard, and 04 MAGIC TILT aluminum trailer. The trailer needs new carpet on the bunks, the boat itself is pretty much ready to go except for swapping out to the bigger 20 gallon fuel tank and hooking the bilge pump back up, but the engine needs some attention from sitting for so long. The carbs were green inside despite him having put it up with no fuel in them, both fuel pumps are pouring fuel out the covers from the o-rings being dry and hard, and the lower unit was froze on. I ended up pulling the threads out when I eventually got the bolt out because of how much heat I had to put to it to get it to move, and after getting all the bolts out I got the lower off as it was just frozen to the dowel pins, so a few wacks with a hammer, and a prybar got it off of them. The oil in it is still bright in color as it has no hours since I changed it for him, and I bet it doesn't have 100 hours on it total run time.

I remember saying before I would never own a 4 stroke because of how much parts cost for them, and this HONDA is proving why I said that. I won't mention how much the parts for the engine are setting me back to get her back up to par, but she'll be right when I'm done.