Engine Mount Lag Stripped....Quick Fix??

boat dr wrote: Chris, watch the OFF TOPICS section..... I heard thru the grape vine there will be a show and tell ........... Professional attention to detail or half fast..... Pictures are worth a thousand words .......... And I sign this Billy Sutton/The Boat Doctor

This is childish and absolutely doesn't belong here. Handle personal things personally. Eric has helped many here and I will back him! Out of your own mouth to me..."Eric be the man!"

John, I keep trying to take the high road and this is getting really embarrassing, but i have a feeling it aint the end

and for this very reason i too have pictures of every step and finished product, dealt with your types for many years

Well Billy just be carefull of the whiners.

safe effective, bore a horz hole, in rotten wood then expect a nut and bolt to hold and your in the business, guess business of what? returned customers, repeat business, more expensive repairs, causing more expensive repairs for repeat business maybe would be best?


just do not see the logic and practicallity in this, so cripe some more,... I guess this is as tame as I can get.

Hollywood wrote: So we're basically back to Pete's first suggestion. 8122pbrainard wrote: One of these bits and about a foot of threaded rod should be long enough to get through the bottom of the boat. To reduce the drag, try a acorn nut on the bottom.

almost, horizontal drilling instead of vertical drilling but again "keep it original" so to maintain originality drilling straight down into the hull is required.

the other thing about that is the glass over the stringer has to be in good shape, because if it is cracked then it's just going to crack more and pull through.

So now the guys not very handy and you want him to machine a special piece to run through the rotted stringer. Good theroy if you had the tools to make the pieces for it to be applied in the practical world.

thank you, fred

my first post got deleted and i gave professional and a very safe method of fixing the problem he had as i always do,


my advice if anyone remembers last week before the 10 posts got deleted was to cross drill into the stringers and install whats called a threaded barrel out of bronze, then you drill down to the barrel vertically and run a bolt to the barrel, not a lag bolt, a bolt with threads which will thread into the barrel and bolt the mount as tight as you care to put it, if this is not a safe repair 79 then you come up with a safer one and dont go there with replacing the stringers cause this guy aint gonna do it, the next safest method would be (if you are a professional you have done this in the past) is to try to find new wood and this can be achieved by turning the mounts or angling the lag bolt.

now, im trying to write this so you understand, if i told the guy hey just run it the way it that it is and that it would be safe then i can see you having a problem with that

but once again i didnt

there is nothing for a new bolt to bite into so it has to be fixed some how before you can put the bolt back in so is it smart to say angle it or do nothing? IMHO no it's not. It needs address and not causually over looked or with some half shot idea because.

So it needs dried out regardless, then if you want to patch with a band aid fine, add some rot doc, let it cure then add some sawdust or epoxy to fill the hole and then install the lag. You have to have a means for it to bite and hold to the stringer and water logged rotting wood doesn't stick to ***************, epoxy or anything else literly. What sticks to water? stink maybe?

It does you no good to pour epoxy, matches or any other half aced idea if there isn't any wood for it to stick too. All your going to do is retain the bolt to the mount and not to the structure of the hull and stringers so you might as well not do anything and that's still wrong, because your just going to tear more stuff up and cost you more than if you just would have fixed it the first time.

so to answer the question no there isn't a quick fix, there are some band aids that take some time but there not as long as replacing the stringer but the fix is the stringers need replaced along with the wet foam and soft deck.

JoeinNY wrote: Definitely a lot of personal attacks lately and it reflects badly on everyone. There is a difference between disagreeing with someone and attacking them. If you refer to someones age, weight, IQ, work ethic, area of the country, mother, choice of engine manufacter, call them a name other than the thier screen name or the one god gave them then it is an attack and its got no place here, particularily on someone elses thread. If someone has a legitimate beef with another member over a business deal and they feel it would benefit the community to hear about it please start your own thread and the moderators will decide whether it has merit or should be deleted. This type of stuff takes food off Keith's table by chasing away members and ultimately advertisers and I know nobody wants that. -Joe.

Well said!

I'm just going by what I have read in his postings.

Small thread jack.

Hollywood remember you only have one side of that story as well. I will not mess another members thread, agin other then to say I will post the full story on that boat from the beginning with pics to help explain.

The original poster was ASKING for half assed repair suggestions, and he got a few. Trolling around slamming fellow members also reflects badly upon this site.

Obviously this stems from one particular boat, remember there are 3 sides to every story... I think Eric still has a 99% approval rating.