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    Welding a pivoting Bow Stop?

    Awesome, thanks for the link. You know, I looked at this link and picture before, but I mistakenly thought the bow strap was going to the bottom roller.
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    Welding a pivoting Bow Stop?

    I like your suggestion of shortening the safety chain and then putting a tensioning strap on the safety chain and pulling it downward. Great Idea, thanks for your thoughts.
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    Welding a pivoting Bow Stop?

    Thanks for your thoughts. I agree with with the bad angle and I tried to change that angle, however when I slide the winch and the stand around it always ends up pulling upward. ( the angle between the winch and the pivoting bow strap always remains the same - that's assuming the correct way to...
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    Welding a pivoting Bow Stop?

    Thanks for your thoughts. I originally had the bow eye between the two rollers and that was really bad. I think the bow eye under the bottom roller provides some leverage on the bow strap to hold the boat down. The guy I bought the boat from never used the trailer and just kept the boat on a...
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    Welding a pivoting Bow Stop?

    Good point. is there typically a tag on the trailer for it's rated capacity? I'll go and look. I believe the trailer was originally sold with the boat back in 1994.
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    Welding a pivoting Bow Stop?

    I'm curious if anyone has been down this road before. My boat came with this stupid roller trailer with a pivoting double roller bow stop. When trailering, the front of this boat bounces up and down against this pivoting bow stop. I'm guessing it does this by design, but sure looks odd to me. I...
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    Coil Question

    Thanks so much for this info. I didnt know the 411... number was the serial number. how cool is that. awesome
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    Coil Question

    you guys are awesome. thanks so much for all the help and direction.. Its really a pretty nice boat for 30 years old
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    Coil Question

    Awesome. thanks so much for the indepth response. I'm leaning towards buying a new switch and taking that potential issue off the table. I have a mechanic stopping by this weekend to take a look. His gut feel is the switch or a connector. By the way, the two times if failed was when I was...
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    Coil Question

    Thanks for all your help. My auto mechanic guy is going to stop by this weekend. He says, " I think we should look at your ignition switch." This has been very aggravating because I can not recreate fail situation. The boat runs great in the driveway!!! Answer me this, with a multimeter...
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    Coil Question

    My worst nightmare. Thanks for taking a look at this. Here' s what I did. ( But there is more! see below) I ran a 12 gauge wire from the R terminal on the solenoid to an external coil resistor and then to the positive side of the coil. And I thought that fixed the problem. but I was wrong...
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    Coil Question

    Thanks for taking a look at this. I have the coil connected to the R terminal and everything is working fine. Starts right up, turns off with the key. Seems to work great. I ran a 12 gauge wire from the R terminal on the solenoid to an external coil resistor and then to the positive side of the...
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    Coil Question

    I have a 1994 Glastron with a 5.7 GI Volvo Penta engine with electronic ignition, 2 barrel Holley carb with electric choke. Owned boat for about 6 weeks. Boat worked fine the first few times I took it out, but then died when coming back to dock and would not restart. I found that the coil was...
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