58 Sedan Bridge Official Thread

Shaps, Thank you again; my squeak is gone! However... What should have taken 15 minutes turned into a couple of hours. Firstly, the genius engineers designed the grease fittings to be in perfect alignment with the rub rail on the boat making it very difficult to get the grease gun attached. Got it done on the Stb side, but the fitting on the Pt side was stripped out. Ended up going to O'reilly's and getting 45 degree fittings which are not tapered and have more threads. Also got a 90 degree adapter for my grease gun.

Fun stuff always on a boat. But I got away with 13 years of not greasing it...I hope.

Ken
 
Shaps, Thank you again; my squeak is gone! However... What should have taken 15 minutes turned into a couple of hours. Firstly, the genius engineers designed the grease fittings to be in perfect alignment with the rub rail on the boat making it very difficult to get the grease gun attached. Got it done on the Stb side, but the fitting on the Pt side was stripped out. Ended up going to O'reilly's and getting 45 degree fittings which are not tapered and have more threads. Also got a 90 degree adapter for my grease gun.

Fun stuff always on a boat. But I got away with 13 years of not greasing it...I hope.

Ken
Happy to help! Glad you got it sorted!
 
On my sliding door it all works great except for when it’s closing the last 6 inches it is so hard to close I have to use 2 hands and use brute force to get it to slide. When opening after I get it past the first 6 inches it slides like butter. I assume it’s somewhat designed this way to prevent slamming of the door?
 
On my sliding door it all works great except for when it’s closing the last 6 inches it is so hard to close I have to use 2 hands and use brute force to get it to slide. When opening after I get it past the first 6 inches it slides like butter. I assume it’s somewhat designed this way to prevent slamming of the door?
Mine is not that way. The rollers are about $140 each(need 4) from Taylormade. Here's a source for $20 each. A dockmates was hard to moved and sounded "metal on metal" - he ordered these and I talked him through the change,,,

I wonder if your tracks are not parallel the last 6"??

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363220457035

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Mine does that once and a while. Have to clean out the dog hair. It gets wrapped around the wheels. Our Golden Retriever is a fur ball.

Ken
 
Agree on the checking the cleanliness. If that checks out, and the tracks look good with no excessive wear or damage, check the vertical end play. Grasp the door handles firmly and lift the door up and down while at both the area where it works well, and where it does not. Let us know what you find.
 
SEA RAY SYSTEMS MONITOR

Ours stopped working sometime in mid- to late-May, possibly coincident with an unrelated electronic installation... so it might actually just be inadvertently disconnected somewhere.

I've seen several useful posts here on CSR with updated monitoring solutions, but I hope to not have to go there just now...

I have "recycled the circuit breaker" per owner's manual. Nada. I've located a disconnected unidentified red (red/vio?) and black wire pair with connectors that could be associated with the Systems Monitor -- using the Systems Monitor Schematic in the manual for guesswork -- underneath the helm. And that's where all that electronics installation work happened. Not sure if the connectors are 75A style, and haven't found an obvious place to connect them.

I suspect my next best step is to test for power at the Monitor.

So what happens when I remove all the screws holding the overhead mounting fascia (aka "gauge panel," in the owner's manual) that holds the engine displays, systems monitor, fuel gauges, and rudder indicator? Does the whole fascia -- along with all those displays and instruments -- come crashing down on the dash?

Or is it maybe hinged, perhaps like the AC/DC panel in the saloon?

Or...?

-Chris
 
SEA RAY SYSTEMS MONITOR



So what happens when I remove all the screws holding the overhead mounting fascia (aka "gauge panel," in the owner's manual) that holds the engine displays, systems monitor, fuel gauges, and rudder indicator? Does the whole fascia -- along with all those displays and instruments -- come crashing down on the dash?

Or is it maybe hinged, perhaps like the AC/DC panel in the saloon?

Or...?

-Chris
Chris - it's not too bad, but a second pair of hands is necessary. Lay a towel over the helm where the compass is, start removing screws (Susan is my 2nd pair of hands). As you remove the last two screws, Susan holds the panel in place and then we remove it and set it face down on the towels. All connectors are long enough. As an aside, when I had a horn air leak, I found my air compressor tank back there - my manual shows it in the ER next to the pump.
 
Chris - it's not too bad, but a second pair of hands is necessary. Lay a towel over the helm where the compass is, start removing screws (Susan is my 2nd pair of hands). As you remove the last two screws, Susan holds the panel in place and then we remove it and set it face down on the towels. All connectors are long enough. As an aside, when I had a horn air leak, I found my air compressor tank back there - my manual shows it in the ER next to the pump.


Thanks, Carter, that helps a lot. In fact, in two ways, 'cause I've got a leak in our air horn compressor systems somewhere; might as well test that there while I'm at it (assuming ours is there, too).

-Chris
 
I had leaks everywhere. First I cut off a little of the plastic hose at each fitting, then I had to replace all of the push to connect fittings around the tank behind the MAN gauges. Finally stopped running every 15 minutes. However, it does pump up one or two times a day.

Ken
 
I had leaks everywhere. First I cut off a little of the plastic hose at each fitting, then I had to replace all of the push to connect fittings around the tank behind the MAN gauges. Finally stopped running every 15 minutes. However, it does pump up one or two times a day.

Ken
I did the same thing and mine still does what yours does - its like we have the same boat!! Wait - we do!
 
Thanks, Carter, that helps a lot. In fact, in two ways, 'cause I've got a leak in our air horn compressor systems somewhere; might as well test that there while I'm at it (assuming ours is there, too).

-Chris
A bottle of soap spray will find any leaks quickly...
 

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