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Type: Posts; User: Lightning 6
This thread is 8 years old.
21 days on a deployment.
Rigid from Home Depot. Made in USA….Lifetime warranty…..but mine has been ridden hard & put up wet for 16 years…..flawless do far…..except for having to replace a caster.
No worries….Chuck is great!
Consider Johns Lake too….single lane ramp but i have never had an issue on weekdays.
Get there early, RD Keene Park parking lot fills up every day.
Nice chain of lakes with good year round bassin. More of a numbers chain these days. Each lake is different, some with much less...
Jocassee in SC or Smith Mountain in VA……probably the closest.
Pretty common on boats with poly tanks & bented gas caps. Keep rod locker & bilge lids cracked open ….. consider replacing the vented gas cap… if it was a tank leak you’d know even when lids were...
Changing oil bath to grease is easy.
Drain oil, remove hub, remove seal & bearings, clean hub & bearings with solvent, grease bearings by hand, reinstall rear bearing & new seal, reinstall hub,...
Balancing the boat while on your trailer won’t be very helpful….because your trailer is not balanced (winch, jack, trickstep, etc) and your boat’s balance will be completely different on the water &...
Grandsons
Epoch essentials have great specs and reviews (eve cells and manufactured by roypow) and goldenmate orion is an ip67 cylindrical cell battery with bluetooth for a great price and with great reviews.
Milk crate works great for me, 3700s, 3600s or any combination of them works.
Improved clinch.
Rod Sox….best I have found.
Finger sleeve.
Simple, add ballast weight right next to batteries. You can use ruck plates or get some steel bar. If you do that you won’t have to change your set-up…..just add weight exactly where you list it...
https://drewcraft.com/product/emergency-boat-ladder-with-mount-for-powerpole-or-raptor/
Mann’s Hank Parker Vampire Spinnerbait.
Some of the hubs were manufactured without the hub o ring groove.
Partially seat the bearing cover & apply red permatex rtv to the interference surface….then fully seat the bearing cover. I do...
The gold series bearing covers are no longer available, but the piston o rings, and hub o ring are (same parts used in vault bearing covers). You can use a vault bearing cover to replace your gold...
Stowaway Hitch Stabilizer. Apologies, I initially used the Amazon descriptive name.
Prop wrench
side cutters
sockets & ratchet (ppole bolts, jackplate bolts, motor bolts, tm bolts)
Adjustible wrench
zip ties
leatherman
dmm
spare prop
spare tm prop
spare tm shear pin
Toyota or Honda…..most reliable products.
Rigrite 520 is probably the timer. Wiring schematic is at address below.
https://rigritemfg.com/products/520_dia.gif
Seal, bearings, vault bearing cover, hub o ring, spindle wear sleeve, grease gun, vault grease, zerk fitting, dead blow hammer, piece of 2x4, jack, jack stand, lug wrench, and the appropriate spindle...
