MTskibum
Footballguy
First off, none of this is my fault. This is truly a story of no good deed goes unpunished.
As a little back story My buddy and i share a boat, it's his boat but he lets me use it whenever want because i pay for and perform most of the maintenance. I don't mind because it saves me a ton of money in the fact that i can use a boat whenever i want and i don't actually have to buy a boat or pay insurance/storage. He only uses the boat 5 times a year, he likes having a boat but would not be able to justify owning a boat if he had to pay a ton of money for maintenance that a salt water boat takes.
I picked it up from his place yesterday morning with the purpose of doing some boat maintenance(changing the ignition) and trailer maintenance, new tires, hubs, and bearing assemblies. When I picked it up i noticed that the canvas on the t-top was not very well secured. But, after i brought it to his attention he told me no big deal and he would add a couple more zip ties and it would be fine.
Below is what happened.
Pure disaster from the beginning, I wish i would have had more pictures, but will need to describe it. You know when you take a wrench and turn on the lug nut how the lug nut is supposed to twist off the bolt. It is always fun when you torque off the entire bolt, I had already planned on changing the bearing assembly, but just describing the amount of rust i had to deal with on everything.
I hate salt water boat trailers.
I am making him uber his butt over here after our wives go to sleep and we are going to have a sewing party under the stars. No way i am fixing that all by myself.
/RANT
As a little back story My buddy and i share a boat, it's his boat but he lets me use it whenever want because i pay for and perform most of the maintenance. I don't mind because it saves me a ton of money in the fact that i can use a boat whenever i want and i don't actually have to buy a boat or pay insurance/storage. He only uses the boat 5 times a year, he likes having a boat but would not be able to justify owning a boat if he had to pay a ton of money for maintenance that a salt water boat takes.
I picked it up from his place yesterday morning with the purpose of doing some boat maintenance(changing the ignition) and trailer maintenance, new tires, hubs, and bearing assemblies. When I picked it up i noticed that the canvas on the t-top was not very well secured. But, after i brought it to his attention he told me no big deal and he would add a couple more zip ties and it would be fine.
Below is what happened.
Pure disaster from the beginning, I wish i would have had more pictures, but will need to describe it. You know when you take a wrench and turn on the lug nut how the lug nut is supposed to twist off the bolt. It is always fun when you torque off the entire bolt, I had already planned on changing the bearing assembly, but just describing the amount of rust i had to deal with on everything.
I hate salt water boat trailers.
I am making him uber his butt over here after our wives go to sleep and we are going to have a sewing party under the stars. No way i am fixing that all by myself.
/RANT
