lckstckn2smknbrls
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I bought a new to me trailer to replace the trailer of my 1971Wards Sea King 1436 jon that was too short. The old trailer was 40" in between the fenders but really best suited to a 12' boat.
I started the rebuild prosses I took everything apart and found several issues mostly on the 3"x3" tongue. When the jack was mounted, they drilled two of the bolts through the tongue. a kink in the tongue and the coupling was trash along with the winch, lights and wheels and tires.
I stripped the rust from another wise sound 45-year-old trailer frame and started the painting with a coat of Rustoleum Rust reformer followed by Rustoleum clean metal primer and Rustolsum professional glossy black. This was a winter project, and it snows in northern Illinois. One snow I was pull starting a snowblower when the motor had an issue where the motor locked up as I was pulling hard. The handle pulled out of my hand leaving me with a shoulder injury that took over a year to heal as well as it has.
I packed up the trailer parts I had painted the winch post, axle, springs and some other parts and my nephews helped me put the unpainted frame against the wall in the garage where it sat for years.
Over the years I have picked up the parts to finish both the old and new trailers. LED lights, winch, couplings. tongue jack, safety chains and a ten-foot 3"x3" to replace the damaged eight-foot tongue on the Yarbrough I'm calling it an 18' trailer with 1200 lb capacity. An interesting feature of the trailer it has an adjustable axle. I can move the axle to one of 3 positions making getting the tongue weight correct very easy.
Last weekend the weather was perfect I got the trailer frame out of the garage I was pleasantly surprised at how well the trailer looked. The garage is heated but it's one of the Non venting heaters and produces a lot of moisture in the air. The trailer frame had some light surface rust in places that I used a 120-grit sanding sponge to remove then over the next few unseasonable warm / hot days I coated with trailer frame Rust Reformer, clean metal primer and two coats of professional glossy black.
Now it's cold, windy and rainy and I don't care the whole trailer is painted! I don't need the trailer right away, need to drill the holes to mount the tongue, assemble all of the of the trailer parts and add all of the acquired parts. I have to order the new wheels and tires 5.70x8 LRC and lasty make the bunks. The new trailer is 48" in between the fenders, the bunks will be 2"x6"s laid flat. The old bunks were some type of roller bunks, still have them. lol
I started the rebuild prosses I took everything apart and found several issues mostly on the 3"x3" tongue. When the jack was mounted, they drilled two of the bolts through the tongue. a kink in the tongue and the coupling was trash along with the winch, lights and wheels and tires.
I stripped the rust from another wise sound 45-year-old trailer frame and started the painting with a coat of Rustoleum Rust reformer followed by Rustoleum clean metal primer and Rustolsum professional glossy black. This was a winter project, and it snows in northern Illinois. One snow I was pull starting a snowblower when the motor had an issue where the motor locked up as I was pulling hard. The handle pulled out of my hand leaving me with a shoulder injury that took over a year to heal as well as it has.
I packed up the trailer parts I had painted the winch post, axle, springs and some other parts and my nephews helped me put the unpainted frame against the wall in the garage where it sat for years.
Over the years I have picked up the parts to finish both the old and new trailers. LED lights, winch, couplings. tongue jack, safety chains and a ten-foot 3"x3" to replace the damaged eight-foot tongue on the Yarbrough I'm calling it an 18' trailer with 1200 lb capacity. An interesting feature of the trailer it has an adjustable axle. I can move the axle to one of 3 positions making getting the tongue weight correct very easy.
Last weekend the weather was perfect I got the trailer frame out of the garage I was pleasantly surprised at how well the trailer looked. The garage is heated but it's one of the Non venting heaters and produces a lot of moisture in the air. The trailer frame had some light surface rust in places that I used a 120-grit sanding sponge to remove then over the next few unseasonable warm / hot days I coated with trailer frame Rust Reformer, clean metal primer and two coats of professional glossy black.
Now it's cold, windy and rainy and I don't care the whole trailer is painted! I don't need the trailer right away, need to drill the holes to mount the tongue, assemble all of the of the trailer parts and add all of the acquired parts. I have to order the new wheels and tires 5.70x8 LRC and lasty make the bunks. The new trailer is 48" in between the fenders, the bunks will be 2"x6"s laid flat. The old bunks were some type of roller bunks, still have them. lol
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