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vgabndo
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The experience of my friends says: 40 hp x 14' + rivets x SOC X time=BBN (Bailing bucket necessary)
My old WELDED 16' Klamath with a 35 Honda was BBN after half a dozen years on the SOC.
I recommend using about 15 hp of that when its choppy!
Then again I'm la Gallina del Mar.
A buddy of mine had a riveted 14 we fished a few times in the San Nicolas' Bay. Quietly drifting bait, you could HEAR the thing leaking!
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captkw
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boat trasiler seal
have the seal's facing out from each other and fill the cavity between with greeeze.. and the seal springs must be s.s.very important and a lot tire
guys and shops dont know that and aslo a lot of tire shop dont know a trailer tire is very different and must say ST on the side !!! and the big tire
chains in the states sell/install wrong tires all day long !!! ST=special trailer...welcome to my world !!! K&T
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Santiago
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Let me know if you need any help putting in a new impeller......
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comitan
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Just one more if you have buddy bearings do not overfill you will blow out the inner seal and will leak.
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captkw
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bearing buddy
HOLA COMITAN... yep just fill them till you rock the "plate" in the middle with the zerk in it...and the "bra's" help to keep the greeez of your "rig"
and one thing that none of us seem to do is let the hubs cool before ya spash/bury em !! hell,wheniI get to the ramp/beach that boat is agoing in !!
and to hell with waiting !!! K&T...P.S. SANTIAGA, looking for a job !! lol
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SFandH
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capkw, check your U2U, I have a motor question
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bigmike58
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
Let me know if you need any help putting in a new impeller......
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now that's a good one!!
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805gregg
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Buddy bearings are ment to add pressure just before you launch, because your wheels and bearings will be warm and the colder water will cool them and
get sucked in, so if you add grease just before you launch you bild up pressure helping to keep the water out, as told to me by a trailer builder.
They are not for greasing your bearings.
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SFandH
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 805gregg
Buddy bearings are ment to add pressure just before you launch, because your wheels and bearings will be warm and the colder water will cool them and
get sucked in, so if you add grease just before you launch you bild up pressure helping to keep the water out, as told to me by a trailer builder.
They are not for greasing your bearings. |
Really! That's interesting and sounds logical. Gotta luv these message boards. I'm going to use the current set-up and check things out every few
hundred miles. Hopefully I won't see any smoke.
So no negative comments about the motor rigging for trailering, that's good. Things will be bouncing, it's not like a US super slab freeway.
McFez, the "transom saver" is made of 2x4s. There is a heavy duty door hinge where the short piece makes a 90 degree with the long piece, which is
through bolted to the bunks. The hinge allows for angle adjustment. The vee was cut in the wood with a hand saw and shaped with a half round wood
rasp. The metal strap on the front of the motor to the transom is inportant. It keeps the motor in place and stops it from rotating
left/right/up/down. You could do the same thing with ropes or rope wires off of the skeg/prop/shaft and to the trailer. The strap works better tho. Of
course the complete assembly is removed before launching.
[Edited on 9-11-2012 by SFandH]
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captkw
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Bearing buddys
well,lets sea !! they keep the greeeez under a slight pressure and greeezed and provide a big margine of hopefully keeping the water out!! but they
are not by any means foolproof and any trailer that gets dunked in water needs to get the wheel bearing checked once a yr at the min. .. and like
things/systems/items on a boat are not what you think....example..has anyone here ever seen somebody pulling up to a boat ramp and waiting a hr to
cool down the hubs..or gettig the B.B. a shot off greeez before or after going down the ramp??? no..we dunk um and go..but a trailer w/out B.B. is
gonna go thru a lot more bearings than one without um and reg. greeeeeeeeez......K&T
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mcfez
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SFandH ...............thank you for that info.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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