My Father has a 3 horse Jiffy that he bought new about 20 years ago. It has never run right had carb rebuild once replace entire ignition and recently replaced whole carb. We are pretty mechanicly inclined people but still isnt right. He took it in a couple times and still isnt right. He had enought a couple weeks ago and bought a strikemaster. On monday my strikemaster blew up so I borrowed his Jiffy till I get a new one. I used it last night and it need some serious attention! It starts great 1st or second pull but thats about all it does good! If you let it warm up it will want to die once in a while just at random like you shut the switch off. After its warmed up it acts like it is only getting half throttle. Just wont rev up. You can push right on the leaver on the carb and doesnt change. I just got it tues so I havent really worked on it yet. I dont think it is as simple as just adjusting the carb but I didnt have time to play with that last night.
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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My Father has a 3 horse Jiffy that he bought new about 20 years ago. It has never run right had carb rebuild once replace entire ignition and recently replaced whole carb. We are pretty mechanicly inclined people but still isnt right. He took it in a couple times and still isnt right. He had enought a couple weeks ago and bought a strikemaster. On monday my strikemaster blew up so I borrowed his Jiffy till I get a new one. I used it last night and it need some serious attention! It starts great 1st or second pull but thats about all it does good! If you let it warm up it will want to die once in a while just at random like you shut the switch off. After its warmed up it acts like it is only getting half throttle. Just wont rev up. You can push right on the leaver on the carb and doesnt change. I just got it tues so I havent really worked on it yet. I dont think it is as simple as just adjusting the carb but I didnt have time to play with that last night.
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