Boat Trailer Repair Project

[MikePal]

Yup the vast majority of trailer light issues are directly linked to probelms with the ground. I used to fix trailers for guys when I was living in Victoria, the salt water really does a number on metal to metal connections.

Happy you had a eureka moment

[Pat32rf]

Those look like a direct replacement for the incandescent fixtures on my utility trail that that my BIL crunched on me last week. It was tricky, but he managed......

[TurkeyRookie]

The pic is a little crooked? Was the photographer into the sauce celebrating his wiring prowess? Good job though!

lol I swear last night when I posted it, it was good and straight. Seems to have tilted over night

[TurkeyRookie]

Dropped the oldest off at school this morning and had some spare time before starting work. Got the jack stand on and the spare tire mounted.

Bringing it to a buddies on Saturday to get the bunk mounts created.

Everyday Myles walks by and asks if we can go fishing yet.

[Pat32rf]

A trussed tonque even!
Might want to extend the walkway a little bit forward and move the jack to the drivers side . Makes it a little easier on us old lazy types....

[TurkeyRookie]

Went over to my buddies tonight, with what I had for bunk brackets and tweaked them. He had some scrap metal laying around so cut me two more plates, as two were missing. They will straddle the cross sections of the trailer and bolt on.

The original design were set crews to pinch the pipe and hold it in place, the screws haven't been turned since they were in so most bolt heads broke off, tried to heat them up with the torch but they still broke off, put them in a vice and pounded them out, used a grinder to grind the bolt off inside the hole so the pipe moved freely.

Then drilled a hole crossways through the bracked. then a series of holes through the pope so the bunks are height adjustable.

Popped the caps off the pins and took the old 2x4's out. Drilled holes in the ends of the pins to use cotter pins to secure it with washers.

Think it will work just fine. Heading over in the morning to rough fit it on the trailer, grab some 2x4's and we'll be ready to head down and get the boat.

[TurkeyRookie]

Got the trailer all finished today. Rolled it over to my buddies garage and put it up on the lift. Mounted the bunk brackets, broke the roller bolts free and cleaned them up with a wire wheel and put anti-seize on them.

The latch for the tilt trailer was king of rickety so drilled a hole right through and put in a locking pin.

Cut all the old chains out and attached new ones.

Popped the caps off and checked the bearings, everything looked good, popped bearing buddies on and filled with grease.

Picked up a couple 8 foot pressure treated 2x4's and made the bunks.

Rolled down the highway about an hour to where the boat was and lifted it on. Our rough measuements of where stuff "should be" was pretty close, enough to get it home.

Trailer was making an awful racket as we rolled into his place. Got it disconnected and hoisted the boat and trailer up. The tounge stand had moved. (they had bolts at the bottom pinching it tight) so we took those out and drilled it right through the tongue and bolted it down.

The winch rattled lose, so we tightened it as best we could then made some tack welds.

Other then that everything held up good.

Moved the bunks out about 2" so they were just on either side of the rail that runs down each side of the boat, and moved the middle bumpers up so they are just touching.

Just going to take the pressure washer to it tomorrow and get it cleaned up.

Man is it ever nice working in an "equipped" garage. The lift was awesome, and nice to have air tools!

[Bushmoose]

Man is it ever nice working in an "equipped" garage. The lift was awesome, and nice to have air tools!

Thats cheating!

[Pat32rf]

Gonna get some broadloom on that pressure treated before the chemicals dissolve the aluminium?? Hate to see the boat split in half now that you have a trailer for it. ;-)

[TurkeyRookie]

Gonna get some broadloom on that pressure treated before the chemicals dissolve the aluminium?? Hate to see the boat split in half now that you have a trailer for it. ;-)

That's this weekends project