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even if we may think the boat sits high enough measure the day leaf springs brakes or tear off it may become much, or too much lower! up up ! |
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Originally Posted by jeff32
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even if we may think the boat sits high enough measure the day leaf springs brakes or tear off it may become much, or too much lower! up up ! I trim my drives up high enough so that the skegs are higher than trailer crossbeams. That way anything I might run over won't hit the drives. |
Originally Posted by Griff
(Post 4921511)
Broken a few leaf springs and the trailer does not sit any lower. The axle gets crooked then the tire heats up and blows.
I trim my drives up high enough so that the skegs are higher than trailer crossbeams. That way anything I might run over won't hit the drives. might not be high enough depending back lenght of trailer and on conditions ask me how I know! I went to fuel up in a station that was higher than the street the way it was made , when I went out to the street, one of the skeg rubbed the pavement. Drives were not completely down but not way up either since then the higher the better! but completely down when parked home |
On my Cigarette I'm re-doing, I installed a remote control for a winch on my drives just for this. As long as you have a single switch for both drives, it's easy to wire in and it works great. This way I can put the drives all the way down when parked and don't have to uncover the boat and get a ladder to hit the trim switch. This boat sits high enough to keep them somewhat down while towing, but as others said it's a nice piece of mind knowing they will not never drag. I'm going to put some kind of pin with a tag that will remind me on the tongue that has to be removed before hitching. Only downfall is the battery switches must be on, which shouldn't be too much of a problem since I will plug in the shore power to run the charger while parked.
On my other boats, which are single engines, they sit much lower and having them all the way up is a must for towing. It makes me cringe knowing the bellows are stretched all the way out for any length of time and uncovering just to trim the drive is always a pain. |
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On my Eagle trailer with the 377 Scarab, I have a drive guard. I trailer mine with the drives down. If I raise my drives, I will raise them up so the drive is still supported side to side by the wear plate in the lower portion of the gimble. I dont want all that rotational force acting on just the hinge pins
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Definitely up for a standard length Bravo 1!
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