unlvrebel
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A question to those who trailer - when it comes time for trailer maintenance, how do you go about performing brake maintenance? Do you leave the boat on the trailer or ?:huh:
Annual trailer maintenance
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uraldyx
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- Jul 15, 2008
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- 1999 210 BR
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- 5.0 EFI Mercruiser w/Alpha 1 Drive
240 HP
I had the brake system completely redone last summer, from the actuator and lines to the drums and bearings. They left the boat on the trailor.
Banagy
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- Nov 13, 2006
- 961
- Boat Info
- 2005 Sun Deck with Lowrance HDS 7 Touch Gen 2 GPS fish finder and Navman radio Bennett Trim Tabs.
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- 5.0 with Alpha 1 drive
I have the trailer with blocks so there is no weight on the tires during the winter. In early spring I service the bearings, brake fluid, lights and coupler before letting the trailer down.
I'm in the process of doing the trailer maintenance now. In my shop I've got the trailer jacked up and sitting on wood blocks. Boat is still on the trailer.
Has anybody found a good source for trailer parts? I want to purchase an extra hub/axle. Found one inside bearing seal that needs to be replaced.
Has anybody found a good source for trailer parts? I want to purchase an extra hub/axle. Found one inside bearing seal that needs to be replaced.
boatrboy
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Morpheus
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- May 7, 2007
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- 2006 SeaRay Sundeck 240
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- 5.0MPI Mercruiser w/ Bravo III
What day will you be down to help me with mine :huh: :grin:
:smt043:smt043:smt043:smt043
Hey I've been working on it for a couple weeks now. Judy says I just want to play with my boat, since I've got it home. You know you have to just go out to the shop and sit there for a couple hours thinking about what wheel to pull next:thumbsup:
Morpheus
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- May 7, 2007
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Well I don't have a shop :smt089 wish I did one that I could keep my boat in.
The boat is kept at the mother-in-laws (for free) in their garage in Punta Gorda (about a 2hr drive) so it's not like I can just walk out and work on it but we go there A LOT.
I have a long list of things I want to do but no experience or confidence in doing them (besides affording it).
I'm 34 years old and I've never even had to change a tire let alone service bearings. I really wish there was a school/class/anything you could go to learn these things. Heck someone should open one up where you could bring your own boat and they would show you how to service it that would be so rockin fantastic.
Just to have someone lookin over my shoulder to tell me if I'm doing it wrong or come across something I don't know.
Anyways didn't mean to become a thread hi-jacker. :grin:
Chris/Morpheus,
I'm getting old, what brand trailer do you have again?
Mark - Thanks for the link, I've seen their website, but have not dealt with them yet.
I'm getting old, what brand trailer do you have again?
Mark - Thanks for the link, I've seen their website, but have not dealt with them yet.
I had to move stuff around to get it into the shop.
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I have used this link for trailer parts
http://shop.easternmarine.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.prodInfo&productID=5989&categoryID=150
http://shop.easternmarine.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.prodInfo&productID=5989&categoryID=150
Chuck I'm envious that you have a place to protect Ms Judy from the elements. When we closed on our home last year I got a couple of quotes for a garage to put our boat in. Both quotes were right at $130k. Didn't make sense to spend $130k to cover a 50k boat..........
Scott,
Thanks Judy calls it my Pouting(spelling??) room (Grin), it's a 26' x 42' x 16'High Morgan building. It takes about 2/3 of one side for the boat when I put it in there. Thankfully I had it built years ago, no where near quote.
Thanks Judy calls it my Pouting(spelling??) room (Grin), it's a 26' x 42' x 16'High Morgan building. It takes about 2/3 of one side for the boat when I put it in there. Thankfully I had it built years ago, no where near quote.
Morpheus
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- May 7, 2007
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- 2006 SeaRay Sundeck 240
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- 5.0MPI Mercruiser w/ Bravo III
It's a MagicTilt I'm 99% sure it has bearing buddies I bought a grease gun to add grease to them but I'm scared to death I'll put to much and blow it out LOL
And as far as your work shop, although it looks nice it wouldn't last down here in a hurricane :lol: or even some of our thunderstorms we have. I can bairly fit my truck in my garage and it's doesn't have a full length bed. About 1-3" in front and back when the garage door is closed.
I thought we had the same trailer. How many miles do you have on your trailer now. I would think you need to grease it by now.
Actual my work shop should handle the wind. It is a Butler building. Most people don't know what I talking about so I just call it a Morgan metal building:huh:.
Per Butlers site:
:thumbsup:
Woody
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How big a building, what kind of construction for that price?
A nice one :thumbsup:It was going to be 28x40 w/ a 12' door. Brick to match the house with a 12' porch facing the pool down one side.A friend (architect) designed it for us. The problem was the house is a ranch style home and this garage was going to look enormous next to it. We wanted something that looked like it belonged there not something built as an afterthought. So some of the things he designed (soffit on the garage to line up with the soffit on the house for example) did drive up the price a little.
I'm no contractor but I was thinking 50k or so. Lol my first home (35 yrs ago) wasn't that expensive & it had property with it :smt043 Scott
Morpheus
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- May 7, 2007
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- 2006 SeaRay Sundeck 240
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- 5.0MPI Mercruiser w/ Bravo III
I'm a bad bad first time boater
I didn't think to keep track of trailer miles, I know I know shame shame on me :smt089If I had to guess maybe 2000 miles on the trailer. Where it is kept now the ramp is about 1-2 miles away the other trips have been 300 miles round trip but not many of those.
I'm a bad bad first time boater
If I had to guess maybe 2000 miles on the trailer. Where it is kept now the ramp is about 1-2 miles away the other trips have been 300 miles round trip but not many of those.
Chris, shame on you. Now give me 30 hell Marys and .... (Just kidding):lol::smt043:lol:
IMHO - At the very least you need to get the trailer checked out. I would recommend you have the hubs cleaned and repacked with grease.
Repacking the hubs is how I just found out I had a bad seal on one of the hubs. The old grease just did not look right, but I did not notice any leak so I went ahead and repacked it. After putting the bearing buddie back on and adding more grease to finish it off is when I notice a small leak on the back seal. Sure glad I found it in the shop and not on the highway:grin:.
