What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?
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Max123
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Re-did the bearings on the trailer for our old ski boat. The trailer travels maybe 1000 yards every year, and is thoroughly neglected. All that neglect caught up with us in July when I went to fill the boat at a nearby gas station before putting it in the water for the season. Made it about 30 seconds down the road, when a quick look in the rearview showed that both tires were wobbling all over the place. Limped it back home at 5km/hr. Subsequent inspection indicated that one bearing had eaten itself, and the other was on the way out.
Anyway, we got the boat in the water, but the trailer has been on blocks in the garage ever since. Got new bearings/races/seals, plus a nice race punch/set tool, and got everything in. Success - trailer rolls - real test will be at the end of the summer when I pull the boat back out.
Anyway, we got the boat in the water, but the trailer has been on blocks in the garage ever since. Got new bearings/races/seals, plus a nice race punch/set tool, and got everything in. Success - trailer rolls - real test will be at the end of the summer when I pull the boat back out.
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kaelc
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Nice, which punch tool set did you get? A lot of respect to the guys doing their own trailers it isn't easy work. Having tools is 1/2 the battle.
kingblazer84
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Max123
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Princess auto to the rescue.
Old races were punched out with an old flathead screw driver. New races driven in with this. I don't know how you would do it otherwise - you can't just tap them in with a hammer and block of wood, because the races are countersunk about 1/2" into the hub. Very slim chance that you could get the new races all the way in (and square) with whatever random tools you happen to have without mangling them. Glad i bought this in advance.
Even though we had totally F'd the bearings - the old races actually looked fine in retrospect. If you have to do this job on the side of the road, I wouldn't touch the races.
Newf
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Always easier when you have the right tools for sure. I don’t so in the past I’ve used a piece of brass shafting to tap the new races back in. You can also use the old race against the new one to tap it in. Zip cut the old one or grind the outside a bit so it doesn’t bind up in the bore when seating the new one.
Brando
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Have used old Bearing and big sockets in the past. Hard to replace a tool built for the task but it works.
Max123
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I like it - using the old bearing to drive in new rackes is a solid hack - nice thinking.
Max123
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Nice - I've been contemplating shifting my axle for a while. My boat has a pod, so the weight of the motor is hanging out pretty far over the axle.
I noticed that Princess Auto has a tongue weight scale for pretty cheap, and was contemplating grabbing one and then heading to the Nordel weight scale to get the true axle weight. The current setup 'may' be right - but really impossible to know without doing the work. Was driving back on Highway 3 and saw a flipped travel trailer - looked like classic 'trailer wag' from incorrect weight balance.
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easydoesit
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Stizzla
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Getting mine back from Sherwood tomorrow and planning on a maiden voyage after…
They did impellers x2 and a halo for the kicker. They said the gas checks out fine as the tank was full and no condensation/ no water in the separator. They printed the usage of the whopping 5 hours on the boat to date so I can vary the rpm accordingly on the last few hours of break in. I’m allowed to rip a bit but I shouldn’t run the same RPM’s for more than 15-20 minutes then switch it up
They did impellers x2 and a halo for the kicker. They said the gas checks out fine as the tank was full and no condensation/ no water in the separator. They printed the usage of the whopping 5 hours on the boat to date so I can vary the rpm accordingly on the last few hours of break in. I’m allowed to rip a bit but I shouldn’t run the same RPM’s for more than 15-20 minutes then switch it up
Rain City
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Come pick me up.Getting mine back from Sherwood tomorrow and planning on a maiden voyage after…
They did impellers x2 and a halo for the kicker. They said the gas checks out fine as the tank was full and no condensation/ no water in the separator. They printed the usage of the whopping 5 hours on the boat to date so I can vary the rpm accordingly on the last few hours of break in. I’m allowed to rip a bit but I shouldn’t run the same RPM’s for more than 15-20 minutes then switch it up
Fisher_dude
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Cleaned it….. for the past 3 days. Whoever originally spec’ed my boat and thought it was a good idea to put carpet everywhere needs a good talking to. Getting the hali slime smell out was a chore.
Sharphooks
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New Furuno DRS4D-NXT radar and a SCX-20 satellite compass. The install was a long process but sure glad I got it done.
Wish I’d had this combo last month up in North Coast—-pea soup fog for days and days….and almost hit a boat using the Garmin radar. No target painted on the screen then all of a sudden, boom, there it was! That was my wake-up get the Garmin off my boat and step up for the 24” Furuno NXT Doppler. I had that same radar 3 boats ago on a Skagit Orca —-they are unreal for painting clear concise targets as opposed to the Garmin “blobs”
And yes, it was a nice clean install—-thanks for mentioning it….
Wish I’d had this combo last month up in North Coast—-pea soup fog for days and days….and almost hit a boat using the Garmin radar. No target painted on the screen then all of a sudden, boom, there it was! That was my wake-up get the Garmin off my boat and step up for the 24” Furuno NXT Doppler. I had that same radar 3 boats ago on a Skagit Orca —-they are unreal for painting clear concise targets as opposed to the Garmin “blobs”
And yes, it was a nice clean install—-thanks for mentioning it….
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That's interesting I swapped my old 24" Furuno out for a new Garmin setup this spring. Also just got back from 3 weeks up the north coast. I found the radar much clearer than the Furuno. Picked up clear targets on everything of concern. Also perfect phasing on the overlay.
