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Old 12-26-2017 | 08:47 AM
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who makes the bolsters for the early 90's fevers I have the mechanical drop down and both of the assist rams are disconnected as well as some wear on the bushings. Anybody have an idea where they are supposed to be mounted and where parts might be sourced? Or if I was to get some electric rams what mounting points would I be looking at.

boat is a 91 29 fever
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Old 12-26-2017 | 02:45 PM
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Made in house. I disassembled my 32's and welded in reinforcements and reengineered the seat bottom pivots. Shoulder bolts and welded nuts to a thin peice of SS didnt cut it. The frame would flex and bend till the seat bottom no longer fully raised. When I got done, I could lift the boat up from the seats!
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Do you have any picks of how you re engendered it? Did you stay mechanical?
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Old 12-26-2017 | 09:04 PM
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I just had the bare seat frame and pushed down on the seat bottom and watched what flexed, then welded SS angle to beef it up. Basically the main frame bottom back peice got reinforced, and then a 2nd vertical rod tieing that part to the upper most frame that the ram mounts to. When you sit on the seat bottom, the placement of that rod was such that the top frame would shift to the side and also bow up. Those 2 conditions prevented the seat bottom from coming fully up also allowed it to feel spongy as you went wave hoping. The hinges I replaced the 3/32-1/8" plate with a nut welded to it, with a 1/2" thick plate that actually supported and located the shoulder bolt using the 3/8" dia of the shoulder bolt body to be the hinge, vs just the 1/4-20 threads as original design. My seats were electric, '99.
This pic is a before shot. You can see how the upper frame is bowed up, and also the vertical rod isnt straight up/down. That allowed sideways flex. With the upper frame bowed upwards, that made the stroke distance of the ram needing to be longer now to raise set fully. But since the ram was fully extended when frame was built new, it was now not long enough, thus the seat not fully raising up. The design of the seat is such that the weight of the rider actually pushes up on that top frame member thru the working of the lower ram mount. The more downward force on the seat bottom, the more force pushing up on that top frame. Which is why that vertical rod is there, to keep it from bending up. Good concept, just no beef to carry thru. Straighten it out, weld in more steel where ever it looks bent, add in a 2nd verticle rod to the new metal, good to go offshore racing.
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