Have any of you extreme trailer owners taken the wood guides and put PVC over the metal? If so what size PVC did you use? I am thinking of taking off the wood guides and putting PVC guides with the pads. How do you recommend keeping the PVC from flying off of floating up? Drill a hole in the metal guide and PVC and run a bolt? Any help would be great.
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The PVC guides on our trailer float...... You want the pipe's to spin when you pull the boat up so you don't want to bolt it down.Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. Albert Einstein -
Ours float up too. Like G-Money said, you want them to spin so you dont want them bolted down. Also depending on the angle of the ramp and how deep you back the trailer in, you don't want the guides to be too low that they hit below the rub rail. Ours float up about 12" I would guess when we launch/load. They aren't gonna fly off though b/c they have about 3' more to go up before they come off.If you ain't falling.. you ain't trying hard enough..Comment
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I considered this as well. I am not sure of your trailer, but the posts on mine are 2 inches square. That means that you would need 3 inch PVC pipe to fit over the metal support. I asked one guy who sells the Tige pads for those PVC pipes and he thought that there is no way they would fit over the 3 inch PVC. Plus, that big of PVC might look dorky.
My posts are really tall, and even when at a steep ramp, they guide me in nicely, so the height is not an issue, but you would want them to spin so that they don't rub something wrong (either the boat or the pad on the PVC).
I think they would stay on fine without any support. On my guides, they would not float up high enough to fall off at the ramp. Someone could easily steal them if you just slid them over the metal support, but I wouldn't try to attach them somehow.
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I have thought about retrofitting something like this: http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...5&classNum=641
I envision mounting the roller section only on the taller guides of my Extreme Trailer. This would replace the bunk/guide with the roller. My previous fix was to place a band of Gator Grip around the board over the carpet. That has worked well, but not perfect for when my wife is making a quick run on to the trailer. She has scraped the rub rail a couple of times on the guide. I think this roller may fit and work well.Comment
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I've contemplated putting these were the board/post gudes are by having a piece of channel welded to the arm so it can slip into the original mount (see pic). They won't float of come off.
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