I am going to look into changing over to Electric this year. Just need time off work!!!! I found a place that makes stainless actuators it should be a very easy swap as long as it has the space for the motor.

If some one can tell me the lenght open and the length closed I can probably locate a ram this evening. Also how far in the pins mount but that is not as important as you can just make a new bracket if you need.

Jon

If no one gets you those mesurements by the weekend I will go dig mine out of the shed and mesure mine. I have my bolsters apart to rebuild the frames.

I found a place that rebuilds and also has surplus stock of these. My boat is in storage any one have the part number?

what is the place you found?

http://www.avfab.com/

I am picking one of these up this weekend....I will let you know when i get it and any info on it

Ok so I braved the cold. Well not to bad we hit 30 today. Feels like a heat wave.

The actuator is 12" open from the top to the center of the mounting hole at the bottem and 9 1/2" closed from the top to the center of the mounting hole. The stud on the top is 1 1/2" long.
I took some pics that I can e-mail you if you like.

Should be enough. Everyone I was going to snowmobiling with this evening called it early. So I am home alone happy to have a good project to work on!

So... Now two years later. Anyone have luck replacing the manual actuators with electric ones?
And I think there are part numbers for the originals floating around. Are they from avfab? Any guidance would be a great help!!!