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Hi guys, just need some help. Have got a new trailer which was a bit of a rush to get out here and was not set up to my boat. Can anyone give any tips to help me adjust the rollers, as you can see from the pics that it is skid/roller trailer. Do I need to take the boat off the trailer.

Cheers Wombles

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Looks like you will need to make a few, if its a small boat you can use a jack.

I just loosen the bolts rasie it to the bottom of the boat, jack up a tiny bit, then raise about a mil or two, then do bolt up "bit more than hand tight" then lower the jack. Check to see if its sitting flush on all rollers and there is no movement, then tighten the bolts. Can be a bit of trial and error to get it right. Easy way to check is to try and spin the rollers.

PS, make sure you take the strap off first

Hey mate as ben Jam said jack a block of wood up across the two pins from the roller assembly sticking thru the bottom of the brackets. Don't take too much weight just enough so the rollers don't turn + a bit. The skids have to take most of the weight. the back one is tricky because if you lift it up to touch the boat when you push the boat off the keel will come back and take all the weight when it hits it and make things hard for you. Also make sure the back one isin't high enough so that it can flog the bottom of the boat.

Cheers

Two jacks are better, one eather side. The keel rollers should take 80% of the weight. The skids should be just to stablise the boat.

Fish Tank wrote: The keel rollers should take 80% of the weight. The skids should be just to stablise the boat.

Thats my understanding as well.
Just be aware that the rear rollers will need to swivel more than the others to allow the boat to slide off easy.

I have the same brand of trailer and ive had to adjust it numerous times
Ive tightened up the bolts and it still moves. I even snapped one off.
Next time i do the adjustments i will weld the supports in place so they dont move, ever

I would be raising your skids and rollers about 100mm or more. Looks like they are all low as and will catch on dirt roads or rocks..

The boat is a 4.8 trail craft- The trailer hasn't been adjusted at all. Straight from the boat yard to toll marine, A crane had to be used to put my boat on to the new trailer then striaght on the barge. Toll Marine totalled my last trailer and this is the replacement. I live out bush (Milingimbi) so 1st time doing this. I know all the skids/rollers need to be lifted up not sure how to do it.

Thanks for the info back gladly appreciated!

Wombles

Just put boat in water and then lift skids up to being level both sides.. Place boat on skids by backing trailer right in and raise rollers as above advice from Ben Jam..

Take the boat off the trailer,,get some old tyers (3or 4) 2 along the keel i each side .Make sure the tranducer is up and motor fully trimmed up.
Set up the first roller(rear of trailer) then run a string line over the rear roller to the front hitching post about 10% riseover the lenghth of the trailer which wil probly be about 40 to 50mmabove leval.
Then start from the rear and move all the rollers up to the string line and tighten.
To get the boat back on unhook it from the ute and just winch the trailer under the boat once the boat is back on move the skids into position,,remember there only there to stop the wobble about 2 mm off the hull ,,job done in about an hour
Don,t foget to check all the rollers have been greased ,,,

Hope this helps PM me if you need more info

Cheers
Jeff

[quote="nomadI have the same brand of trailer and ive had to adjust it numerous times

Ive tightened up the bolts and it still moves. I even snapped one off.
Next time i do the adjustments i will weld the supports in place so they dont move, ever[/quote]

Once I set the rollers to there height and position I would either get them welded into position or drill some holes through the pegs and bracket and put a small bolt through it. This is what I did to my trailer and the poles have never dropped or moved again.

Wombles wrote:The boat is a 4.8 trail craft- The trailer hasn't been adjusted at all. Straight from the boat yard to toll marine, A crane had to be used to put my boat on to the new trailer then striaght on the barge. Toll Marine totalled my last trailer and this is the replacement. I live out bush (Milingimbi) so 1st time doing this. I know all the skids/rollers need to be lifted up not sure how to do it.

Thanks for the info back gladly appreciated!

Wombles

What they replaced it,i used to live in gove for years and that type of service from perkins just never happened even after totaling the od boat everyone was told that they were nothinh but a common carrier and that it was the owners responibility

Take the bolts out 1 at a time and put never seeze on them...

gove tony wrote:

Wombles wrote:The boat is a 4.8 trail craft- The trailer hasn't been adjusted at all. Straight from the boat yard to toll marine, A crane had to be used to put my boat on to the new trailer then striaght on the barge. Toll Marine totalled my last trailer and this is the replacement. I live out bush (Milingimbi) so 1st time doing this. I know all the skids/rollers need to be lifted up not sure how to do it.

Thanks for the info back gladly appreciated!

Wombles

What they replaced it,i used to live in gove for years and that type of service from perkins just never happened even after totaling the od boat everyone was told that they were nothinh but a common carrier and that it was the owners responibility

They managed to loose my boat for 6 weeks and helped them selves to my credit card twice. The best part about not living remote anymore is not having to rely on a cr.p shipping company.

cuddlescooper wrote:[quote="nomadI have the same brand of trailer and ive had to adjust it numerous times

Ive tightened up the bolts and it still moves. I even snapped one off.
Next time i do the adjustments i will weld the supports in place so they dont move, ever

Once I set the rollers to there height and position I would either get them welded into position or drill some holes through the pegs and bracket and put a small bolt through it. This is what I did to my trailer and the poles have never dropped or moved again. [/quote]

Once you get it to the right height cut some pieces of 25mm water pipe take the roller supports off the trailer and thread the support arms thru the pipe and put them back on. Then if they come loose the pipe still holds the barket in position.

Yep drill holes in the roller supports & you wont have to worry about em again.Id be placing at least 80%of the weight (my boat all of it) on the rollers & use the skids for balance only as Ive seen more than one boat where leaks have started where the skids have worn through hulls,especially on the bush roads in the NT. You will find also usually where there is a skid the transducer is diredtly behind it & marking up the hull can effect your soundings at speed.