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Default Boat trailer BS

On Mar 25, 12:32*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:24:25 -0400, Harryk
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True North wrote:


"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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On Mar 24, 10:18 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:57:34 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch


wrote:
Got my fully tinned wire for my trailer and put it on so now I have
trailer lights again. However while doing it, I found that all of the
bolts and nuts on the trailer are so badly corroded they will not last
another season. I probably need about $100 of stainless hardware to
replace them. I thought EZ Loader was quality but it isn't. What
would a bit of stainless or hot dipped galv bolts have cost them?


Go to a real fastener place and you might save a few bucks but
stainless is the way to go on a salt water trailer. I started out a
couple bolts at a time as they got nasty but I bit that bullet too
after a few rounds of swapping out rusted bolts.


The leaf springs are also rusting badly, not sure what to do about
them.


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By new ones if you're that concerned... they aren't very expensive.


If you wash your trailer after you use it, and maintain it, you'll have
far fewer problems than Froggy seems to have. Maintenance to him seems
to be "ignore it until it breaks."


Sometimes that is hard to do.


I wash the trailer after every use just after I run fresh water thru
the motor.