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    Trailer Guide Ons DIY?

    If I could bend the flat stock, wouldn’t it simply bend when the boat came in contact with the guide pole?
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    Simplest 2 Battery Setup?

    From what I can tell, the large black wire from the battery attaches to the engine block behind the starter (finger pointing to where it attaches to the block)
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    Simplest 2 Battery Setup?

    Bare with me, stupid question here… Attached is a pic of my current setup (boat was setup like this when I bought it). The small red and small black wires are what I believe runs my gauges on the dash, fish finder and radio. The large red and black wires run to the motor. No buss bar. Would it...
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    Simplest 2 Battery Setup?

    I too think that’s the best solution but that seems to be a trickier wire setup. Does anyone have a wiring diagram?
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    Trailer Guide Ons DIY?

    I wonder if I did something like this… bought a strong sheleving bracket from homedepot, attached it to the frame of the trailer and the diamond plating and then attached a carpeted 2x4. The bracket is 1/4” thick so I’d assume it’s strong enough to resist bending if the boat was to come in...
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    Trailer Guide Ons DIY?

    I believe I can make the double support side bunk design work but figured I’d ask here in case someone has a better design for my style of trailer
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    Trailer Guide Ons DIY?

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    Trailer Guide Ons DIY?

    My trailer is a bit different than typical boat trailers because it has a steps made of approx 1/8” diamond plate. Looks like there used to be some kind of guide ons judging by the holes. Any ideas how to build some that will help guide my 20’ open bow boat? It always seems to be windy when I’m...
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    Simplest 2 Battery Setup?

    Seems easy enough, thank you! One other question: I’m likely going to buy a new battery because my newest battery is from 2018 and the other is from 2011. I’ll keep the 2018 which is a marine deep cycle (was the battery that controlled the stereo and started the boat) for a back ip battety...
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    Simplest 2 Battery Setup?

    I recently bought a 89’ seaswirl with a 4.3 OMC engine. Boat came with two batteries but only one battery was hooked up to the boat, seller said second one was for just in case. I thought that’s great but how does that just in case battery stay charged? The just in case battery looks to be from...
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    Surge Brake partial rebuild, brake away level doesn’t work?

    Update…. I removed the lock clip and with a 2’ cheater metal bar slipped over the breakaway lever, I was able to get the breakaway lever to rotate enough that it would’ve engaged the locking clip had it been in place. I’m thinking it’s good, just take a good amount of leverage/weight to get...
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    Surge Brake partial rebuild, brake away level doesn’t work?

    Dang… and I thought I was good to go after talking with that tech…. With the locking clip removed I’m still unable to pull the lever hard enough to get it close to locking in place. I’ve even wrapped a rope around me and tried to use my body weight but the lever doesn’t move much. Any idea was...
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    Surge Brake partial rebuild, brake away level doesn’t work?

    What model accuator do you have? The very knowledgeable dexter axle tech I spoke with said the model 60 titan/demco takes that much to lock the brakes into place. He said if I had a different model actuator, then it would a whole different story because they don’t take much to trigger the brake...
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    Surge Brake partial rebuild, brake away level doesn’t work?

    After making a lot of phone calls today, I spoke with a tech at dexter axle who bought out titan (original manufacture). After speaking with him he confirmed everything was setup correctly and that the lever requires approx 1200lbs to be triggered, which makes sense why I couldn’t trigger it by...
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    Surge Brake partial rebuild, brake away level doesn’t work?

    Hello All, it’s a long story so bear with me please… Two weeks ago, I bought a great condition 89 Seaswirl Spyder that came with the original metal craft trailer. The trailer needed a new master cylinder (old one was dry and full of rust) so I replaced it along with the brake assemblies...
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