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Tech Talk => Jet Pumps => Topic started by: karmatattoojets on August 21, 2014, 06:12:57 PM

Title: Ride plate bolts bent.
Post by: karmatattoojets on August 21, 2014, 06:12:57 PM

This is one of the bolts out of my ride plate and the other is way way worse. Will this affect the way it rides


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Title: Re: Ride plate bolts bent.
Post by: Your Mom on August 21, 2014, 07:08:53 PM

Do you have right angle bolted to the sides to keep it rigid? Dont put bent bolts back in.

Title: Re: Ride plate bolts bent.
Post by: JARVIS on August 21, 2014, 07:15:57 PM

could the ride plate have tagged bottom at some point....  either way, if your ride plate is holding at the angle it needs to be in....id say your good.  if its off some....or higher on one side than the other...id say thats not good.  i know with jet skis...if ride plate is not set right...it changes handling.  i could only imagine the same for boats... ???
perhaps someone else will shed a brighter light on it soon...

Title: Re: Ride plate bolts bent.
Post by: Flusher on August 21, 2014, 09:29:13 PM

Those stainless Allen bolts are very soft.  The equivalent of a grade 2.  If you don't have angles cut on the bottom of your cradle so that the ride plate intersects at only a line across the bolt holes instead of a flat, the plate will bow to the flat of the cradle and could also cause the bent fasteners.

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