New to me 78 Tique

Good thinking. Looks like the better part of three feet hanging off the end.

Nice! 

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Yes the unloaded trailer at 400lbs or so will certainly fool you into thinking you have plenty of clearance... especially if those springs are old. Might want to replace them if you haven’t either way, ive even stuffed the smaller 12” into the fenders when the springs are really tired. At 50 years old, they may not have much life left in them (I’ve broken more springs than had flat tires or bearing issues combined). You’re not finding replacements locally/quickly, which can be a pain if you’re far from home.

Be aware that with those fenders, the 13” tires will rub from time to time even with brand new springs. If you haven’t replaced springs, expect those tires to rub pretty consistently (they may not last long). Everything will look fine until you get the weight of the boat on it. Your best bet would be swapping to the larger fenders that started showing up in ‘72 (flat round) or going back to 12” wheels and tires.

Not sure where you’re planning to install the reflectors, but there were round amber ones on the forward part of the frame, originally. The angled fender supports actually held lights (amber front and red rear) on the 71+ trailers if I am not mistaken (mine all have them- fairly certain they weren’t added). They make original style running lights for that spot, as well as the original round tails, in case you hadn’t seen them.

Made a little progress on the trailer.  Added bunks and carpet, lights, and switched out wheels from our old trailer to this one as the ones on the old trailer matched (13" with triangles/baby moons).  Also took the winch off the old trailer for this one as it had a winch stand already there.  Waiting on new round orange and red reflectors and tubing for the bow stop (we do have the cross member (not pictured)) and guide posts.  That tubing is expensive .

How about the transition from round fenders to the angles fenders? We have both. This first trailer is getting rounded and will prob get 13” to go with the 4 lug axle. It will hold the 78 tique for now but will be for the 72 skier once it is done. The next one we do will be for the tique so I want to get it right in my head. Will prob stay with 4 lug axle since we have them but could go with either fender.

TRBenj wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: TRBenj wrote:  76ish and is when they went to 5-lug (those trailers also got 3500lb axles - at least my 78 did). My 77 low boy has 14's and 5 lug.  Is that inconsistent with what I said?

Thanks all. Should have mentioned, all three of our #2 trailers are 4 lug.

I’ve towed several trailers that tweaked and they ride down the road just fine with no evidence of uneven tire wear even.

72 was right around the time when they went from 12” to 13” on the #2, whether you can fit the latter depends on which fender style you have. Both would have used 4-lug hubs and wheels. 14” wouldn’t have come on the #2 until 76ish and is when they went to 5-lug (those trailers also got 3500lb axles - at least my 78 did).

Yeah that Bend will buff out. If not then you've got a preset alignment  bend already built in for those windy days.

Looks nice. Our '78 had 14" wheels with pointy baby moons.  Were you able to get the bend out of the trailer?  Always amazes me that someone can jack knife a trailer so hard it does that much damage.

And that holeshot issue was solved with a Holley 4160 450 cfm carb.

When we set timing we went through it all. That was when we got the new springs for the distributor. I think timing is fine but can check again. Only reason I asked is a friend thought the exhaust could be timing related.

On the carb, when we rebuilt, I adjusted the idle screws until the rpms were the highest. Now the screws are having little to no affect so I think the idle circuit needs cleaning. The boat has become difficult to start cold in the last month as well. Once warm just turn the key.

KENO wrote:   Pete, can I take a shot at working on your YH's?

I actually forget exactly where we ended up...somewhere in the 8-10 degrees

I can check the rpm with our light but there is no doubt the tach is off.

I’ll start with cleaning the idle circuit.