Transom issues

Bassducker

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I need some info on repairing/replacing the transom on my 1979 Glastron HPV 175. Is there anywhere in central IL that would do this job?
 

Scott Danforth

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you will have to investigate your location if there is someone that will take on the job. remember, you will be paying $125/hour labor for this many hundred hour job or you can do it yourself

the rot will not be centralized to the transom.

the steps are as follows;
  • remove drive & engine
  • remove upholstery and everything from interior
  • build cradle for boat
  • remove cap
  • cut out floor
  • cut out bad transom
  • cut out rotten stringers
  • remove all wet flotation foam
  • grind out all old tabbing
  • make new stringers and bed them in
  • make new transom and bed it in
  • new tabbing
  • new floor
  • new flotation foam
  • finish floor
  • then re-assembly

if you want to do it yourself. start by going to this sticky from the hull restoration forum


read links 14, 15, 18, 2, 3, 4a, and 4b in their entirety. watch every video, look at every picture.

that will give you the basics you will need.
 
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