Glad to hear you are doing well- good luck

love the pics of the engine compartment- beautiful sights, you are truly a blessed man to have such awesome equipement in the engine bay. Oh by the way, the engines look cool too.

Stay Well and be safe

I noticed this winter that there was a big crack where the reinforcement attached to the post on the winch stand. I went online and ordered a replacement winch stand rated for 12,000 lbs (my boat weighs approx 5500 dry). When i was putting it on i looked at how it was mounted, and ended up doing a lot more work. It was attached to a 3x3 tube, which was u-bolted on both ends to angle iron, which was in turn bolted to the trailer frame with 4 bolts, probably 1/4" or 3/8" And that's the only thing stopping the boat from coming forward (no place in rear to put tie-downs at an angle that would keep the boat from sliding forward).

So I ordered a new 8000 lb brake actuator, and a 3"x4" tongue. removed the old tongue and the piece the winch stand was mounted to, and replaced it with the new tongue. The new tongue is long enought that it extends back from the front of the trailer enough that i can attach the winch post to the same member as the couple / brake actuator. Much more solid now. And i've already had 2 low-speed panic stops this year, so it probably paid for itself by now.

Sleeper D,Do you have any pics?

I just dropped off my mangled winch stand and they are straightening w/ reimforcing the brace.
I also ordered a hd bow stop from Ron Manning Trailers.
see below pic from Manning Web site.

jmackin, thanks for the advice.

From now on, I will secure the bow eye to trailer frame via chain to reduce travel forward.

GoCiggie

Roger 1 made a winch stand for me.I will post pic of his excellant work.....the drive stands are out of site.... his work is second to none....m.m.......

GoCiggie31,

That is my trailer in the picture you posted. It is an aluminum trailer but I requested a steel bow stop and it is painted silver. If I ever did another bow stop, I would have Ron drill a small hole on the bottom backside of the large tube before the support tube was welded in place. (between the large angled tube and the support tube). I would do this for water drainage since the bow stop is an adjustable sleeve, it allows water in the tube. Seems like it could even freeze up and bulge if the trailer sat outside in the winter. Now that I look at the picture, I may still be able to get in there w/ a 90* drill. Small detail, but that's how I would do it.

BG,
good advise and thanks

I grabbed that pic from Mannings web site- nice set up

1958 I wasent even born yet

Sweet ride

you dont know what you missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!m.m..........

Got mine the other day and painted it silver also, works great. Best $200 I spent

Indio, do you have a larger version of that shot of your boat running that could be emailed.. I need a new desktop, think I just found it