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It looks absolutely incredible I’n person kodiak is getting a 13speed swap and hood painted getting ready for the summer !

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Old 8ll trans
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Updated new moter mounts
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WOW that looks great. Glad to see you got her home safe

holy crap!!! Just, wow! Looks amazing.

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So clean and pretty !!!:drink:
Now get going filling it with stuff.

Are you going to be running the Konrad 540s?

Great...now my keyboard is all sticky....thanks dude hahahahaha looks incredible man!!

Ok, I would kill to have a shop like yours, love the truck and boat build but I have a question.

How do you find the time?

On the time thing it’s been a 5 year project so it’s been spread out. But I’m a full time firemen so I work one day on then off for a few plus kelly days and stuff so I have a lot of off time. And I have a very patient sidekick in life and on the water lol she Dosent nag me when I’m out in the shop. I do plan on running the 540s I really like them the boat ran really well with them. Got some parts put on yesterday starting to lay everything out and making plans

Any chance of a you tube video showing the boat - and perhaps a bit of discussion on the plans for getting it all back together?

Finally got all the parts laid out. Started putting some things back together the mrs boating queen is clean parts and we been slowly putting things together !

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Side vents on
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Bilge wiped down starting to map things out
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Door track and steps in
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Cleats are in

All the tracks and mounting brackets are there bolted with lock nuts so many boats I have worked on that just use #8 screws all those screws come loose and the holes all striped so we threw bolted counter sunk all heads and such so it takes a long time lol working on windscreen know

Any one know of a good clear coat for aluminum? Have some parts that need something on them there raw aluminum at the moment

Cerakote seems to hold up well, Dan had it done on the tabs I made for him and they still look great. There is also a paint manufacturer that makes a prep and clear for raw aluminum. It is used in the sign industry. Check with a local large size sign company. I will ask a buddy of mine that owns one and post it when I get a name.

This is what was put on my AL trailer. Still looks good after 4 seasons, but probably only saw salt and brackish water for 1 season.

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Perfect thanks ! Ok drive tanks, ok so I used to run the clear Hardin marine mounted on the transom. What do you guys think about the stick tanks on the inner transom assemblies. I know you have to pull the dip stick to check them and I’m ok with that. I’m just trying to limit the amount of hikes in this nice new smooth transom lol. I also have some Hardin marine fuel filter heads I’m not going to use either I’m just going to run the stock ones on the moter I don’t see the need to run 2 sets of filters.

Has anyone sandblasted trim tabs and has them powder coated ? Wondering if the sandblasting would pit them up ? Or the power coating would get in to the holes and not let the pins go back in ?

Just had mine powder coated. My guy plugged the holes where the pin goes. They came out nice too. Not sure what he did to strip it, I didnt ask.

a fine abrasive wont hurt that aluminum, or try soda or walnut shells

I blasted mine with some old silica sand and had no problem. You can also soda blast them or media blast. Both will leave them smooth.

We had our swim platform blasted and coated…I was surprised how well the powder coat fills voids and smoothed imperfections. unless you have major surface irregularities you should be fine.

Thanks !!! I got them all striped and dropped off at sandblaster. There acually in really nice shape no pits but some of the silver power coat is coming off so wanted to get them redone. Been working in the bilge running all new battery cables and starting to put in the things that need to go in before the engines. So my old trimlines seem to
look ok but there originally all the fittings swivel nice but thinking mabye replace them ? There old but then there is if it isn’t broke don’t touch rule to lol

How much to replace - if not to expensive why risk...

I was gonna sandblast and paint mine but in the end opted to just put brand new ones on.

Tabs were in really nice shape so those are getting rebuilt. The trim lines are kinda pricey prolly close to a grand for new ones I’ll prolly end up doing them anyway. Nice to see it finally coming together!!!

aren’t they $1500 for a set. Not exactly cheap. if they are good structurally a few pits won’t harm anything.

I have a different opinion on transom assemblies…

I think he was talking bout the trim lines. But yes tabs are in good shape and yea I agree with transom assemble luckily the ones we have are new!

Has anyone used the pop up indicators that are electric with senders ? I like the thought of not having cables and I so like the heads up ones I just found out they make them in Electric. My Konrads have the sender on them already would just have to adapt a sender on the tabs. They make a lot for that as well. I’m just not sure how well they work.

Yea - I agree - I'd refresh the tabs but replace the lines.

Here's mine I had blasted and powdercoated.
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Nice !!!!!

Didn't know they made electric pop-up indicators! That’d be pretty cool because I agree the cables can be a pain. I pulled my tab and drive indicator cables and did away with the indicator all together. Use smartcraft for trim and just feel for tabs now, but will probably add electric senders to integrate tabs into smartcraft.

That’s sweet I was looking into trying to get some of my stuff interfaced into my garmin but have to do research I have know clue we’re to start

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Steering nylon washers in between ?
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Been a long time since I took it apart

Ordered some
nylon washers is that the overall thoughts in between the steering components?

Nylon or some type of poly washers is what my Marine Machine Steering uses