trailer issue

[delmo777]

i have a 1986 renken18' bowrider.the trailer it is on needs reairs to the rollers.how doi get the boat up and off the trailer to replace the rollers?

 

[ebry710]

Re: trailer issue

Welcome to iboats.

There are hundreds of ways, but three easy ones I use:

1) The best. Bring your boat, new rollers and tool box to the water, launch your boat and repair it in the parking lot.

2) Jack and block it. Your just lifting the boat high enough to remove the rollers, all you have to do is match the existing lift points.

3) Front rollers just require you to winch/push the boat back far enough to gain access to the rollers.

good luck

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: trailer issue

Getting Boat Off Trailer

you don't need stands.

1/you can lower the tongue to the ground. i would get some 6x6 or old railroad crossties cut the +- 12 inches, now block up the transom. 2/

Raise the tongue of the trailer the back of trailer will drop away from trailer. this is the tricky part. between the cross braces of the trailer block the keel lower trailer, boat will be suspended on the blocks.

3/ pull forward, lift bow again, and reblock i a different place. repeat until trailer is out from under the boat.

4/ to reload, just reverse the procedure.

if you were just working on the bunks, or painting the bottom. you could just do the first 2 steps.

 

[delmo777]

Re: trailer issue

well i just bought the boat, and the two rollers from the bow back completely broke, and the boat isresting on the trailer in the middle, so i don't want to move the boat. what type of jacks would i need to use?

 

[reelfishin]

Re: trailer issue

Do like TD says to lift the rear. For the front, I like to use a wood block between a floor jack and the boat. I made up an 18" tall wood block from a chunk of 10x10 rough cut timber to which I lag bolted the plate from my floor jack. It works great and there's no chance of the block rolling off the jack.
I went to Harbor Freight and bought two sets of their 12 ton tall jack stands and made up wood blocks to pad the hull. You don't need the jack stands, the wood crib or stand works fine. I like to secure the two rear stands together side to side if I'm going to be working under the boat, especially if it's a boat that don't have any particularly flat area on which it's supported.

 

[delmo777]

Re: trailer issue

thanks for the helpiwillgiveallthis a try and let you knowhow it goes.this is my first boat,and a project so all the help is needed!

 

[CATransplant]

Re: trailer issue

Funny story:

I went to the nearest launch ramp near my house right after the ice was off the lake to do a test run with my new outboard. When I got there, there was a guy over at the far end of the parking lot with his trailer and pickup. The boat was beached near the ramp.

Everything had been stripped of the trailer, and the axle stubs were all wrapped up tight with brown paper and duct tape. The trailer was blocked up at the corners and tongue with concrete blocks.

He had an air compressor running in the bed of the truck and was sandblasting rusty spots on the trailer. I launched, then parked my SUV and trailer as far away from him as I could, then headed out to do my tests.

When I came back, the guy had replaced the sandblaster with a paint spray gun and was busy painting his trailer there in the parking lot. Fortunately, the wind was blowing away from the rest of the lot.

I guess that once the paint was dry, he was going to remount the rollers, get the hubs back on with the tires and retrieve his boat. The paint smelled like lacquer, so it'd dry pretty darned fast, I suppose.

I sorta got a kick out of it. I've worked on my trailer in a ramp parking lot, but not to that extent.

 

[reelfishin]

Re: trailer issue

Funny story:

I went to the nearest launch ramp near my house right after the ice was off the lake to do a test run with my new outboard. When I got there, there was a guy over at the far end of the parking lot with his trailer and pickup. The boat was beached near the ramp.

Everything had been stripped of the trailer, and the axle stubs were all wrapped up tight with brown paper and duct tape. The trailer was blocked up at the corners and tongue with concrete blocks.

He had an air compressor running in the bed of the truck and was sandblasting rusty spots on the trailer. I launched, then parked my SUV and trailer as far away from him as I could, then headed out to do my tests.

When I came back, the guy had replaced the sandblaster with a paint spray gun and was busy painting his trailer there in the parking lot. Fortunately, the wind was blowing away from the rest of the lot.

I guess that once the paint was dry, he was going to remount the rollers, get the hubs back on with the tires and retrieve his boat. The paint smelled like lacquer, so it'd dry pretty darned fast, I suppose.

I sorta got a kick out of it. I've worked on my trailer in a ramp parking lot, but not to that extent.

We tried launching a boat here one time just to change the bunks over, had the new ones all ready to go, all I had to do was drill the holes and bolt them up, the fish and game guy came along and had a fit, he said repairs of any sort were forbidden on state owned property. So I gave my buddy the keys to the boat and told him to go do circles out away from the dock, and I took the truck down the road a bit and put the new bunks on the trailer. I pulled into a closed store parking lot nearby and did what needed to be done and came back and reloaded the boat. He never paid any mind to the fact that the boat had no numbers showing on it, we had just finished buffing it and the new numbers were in the back seat of the truck awaiting warmer weather. He was also hassling a handful of kids catfishing off the bank, he told them they couldn't fish withing the loading area. (It was cold that day, there wasn't another soul around).
Now the latest thing is getting ticketed for not having a photo copy of your license or a game reserve parking permit posted in the window. In this day and age, I'm not too keen on posting my personal info on the side of my car.
Both the permit and fishing license both have a soc. sec. number showing and drivers license, along with you address and phone number.
I normally put one in the window that's been wet and isn't readable, there's no way I'll put that info out in public like that.