I have a 2007 tracker grizzly 1860 CC with the same steel rivets. They hold fine and may have a little surface rust. It's an all welded boat. These fasteners are not a typical rivet. They are heavy duty and extra large and seem to be used to hold critical joints, like where my console attaches to the floor. They are tougher and outlast all the aluminum rivets holding panels as I beat the heck out of the boat in rough waters. Don't Panic!
I've been running a1754 grizzly for 8 years with a jet I use it on a weekly basis no issue or problems . When you're running Sante Cooper in SC or the Potomac in West Virginia I don't want aluminum rivets the main structure of the boat is all welded to begin with the difference is mine is garage kept and not left in the yard to rot
Here is an idea.... Keep it covered, keep it dry, you are complaining about rusted rivets while there is water sitting a half a foot from it! Keep it dry or go spend more on a different brand boat! Trackers are good boats for the money you just like any other boat have to take care of it!
@Jam1053428 Does not mean to leave outside uncovered. If it rains while on the lake, clean it out when you get home. Its called taking care of something so it last longer. Not that hard to figure out.
It's a boat, they get wet. The point he is trying to make is that the steel rivets are GOING to rot out eventually, no matter how much you pamper it. It also appears he uses this boat in at least brackish waters. Salt will eat those steel rivets up faster. Also, to be clear, this is a jon boat. They should be built to be rode hard and put up wet. Honestly, if you don't know what you're talking about you should really keep your fingers away from the keyboard. This video has single handedly kept me from wasting my money.
Think about it. Steel rivets are much stronger and hold tighter than aluminum or stainless steel. When your jumping waves, nocking logs or rocks every once in a while you want the strongest rivet holding your boat together. The golden gate bridge isn't made out of aluminum or stainless, it would fall apart. They keep the bridge coated with paint. Its up to you to keep your boat "ship shape". Hope this helps! That's a great boat, toss a cover over it!
Just another boat that will end up in a boat graveyard decades before it's time because the owner did not take care of it and will blame the boat company for it.
@@JEEP2001MRED well I suppose if the seat brackets had been aluminum you'd then be bitching about your seat wobbling and falling off...do yourself a favor get educated and learn basic engineering before humiliating yourself on youtube....you are smart enough to know that youve embarrassed yourself right ?
Cuz steel rivets are stronger than aluminum and can flex a little without bending/loosening. Which are great for joints than can move, like bench seating, consoles and floors. Yours are holding the floor on, which isnt meant to be under water 24/7 thats why yours are rusting.
Well what happened is the factory told the dealer shorts two clean and paint the rusty steel rivets in the floor they wouldn't change the records I guess they're too cheap so I guess that they put them together with steel rivets not good so if you buy a Tracker grizzly that's what you get.
JEEP2001MRED you could drill them out and re-rivet it with aluminum rivets. Not saying it's okay that they do that. I probably won't buy one after seeing this
i had nothing to do today I was reading anything and everything about the Grizzly boats i live in northeast Ohio in the summer and southwest Texas in the winter My Grizzly is 7 years old I use about 150 days a year I have beat hell out of this boat from lake Amistad Texas to Lake Erie in northeast Ohio Never a problem I cover my boat when I trailer it and it's under a shelter when it's at home a little TLC goes a long way
Drill them out. Put in aluminum. I have taken my floor up 3 times in the last two years to run rigging and wiring customizing my boat. Its not difficult and probably cost me less than $3 in rivets.
There is a reason why Tracker boats are the least expensive options out there. To be disappointed that they cut costs is laughable at best. You get what you pay for...also, if you're going to be out in the salt, get a fiberglass boat so you don't have to worry about rust.
Well I just got done talking to the dealer shorts and the factory about the rivets the factory says because I'm using the boat and a saltwater environment that they're going to rust and the only thing they told shorts to do is clean them off and paying them not change them so I guess next year when they do it again they'll say we can do anything for you real nice company you better think about buying a Tracker boat you'll have the same thing.
JEEP2001MRED cheap made boat my plastic kayak is stronger than that .6 aluminum sheet this is why I don't buy aluminum boat I'll take kayak over that garbage aluminum boat
Aluminum fasteners are not strong enough for floor fasteners on a boat, there is to much flex and vibration. Aluminum and steel are right next to one another on the active/inactive metal scale used to evaluate dissimilar metals and are thus minimally corrosive. You also need a corrosive environment for dissimilar corrosion to occur, such as keeping a huge puddle of salt water in your boat all the time as this gentleman does.
@@danialcompton3093 Aluminum fasteners aren't strong enough?? Better let all the other boat manufacturers know how inadequate their aluminum rivets are!
If you weren’t so cheap you would have bought the welded but and not worried about it. And these boats are cheap compared to other manufacturers so you get what you paid for.
Some people love barking at a brick wall! You'll be hard pressed to find a better jon boat when comparing boat vs dollar. Go ahead and spend a couple grand on a boat with 50 bucks of stainless hardware. Touch em up with a little paint, throw down a mat and quit dragging those damn steal baskets around. Use your fucking head old man.
You answered your own question, "When the PAINT WORE OFF, they started to rust..." Why do you think metal surfaces are painted? Every bare metal will oxidize. Even stainless. If you scratch the paint off of your car, it'll rust too! Wire brush, primer, Rust-Oleum...good as new.
If you have any sheet metal experience u would know u can't put 2 dissimilar metals together...why??....because corrosion will naturally set up....EVEN WITHOUT WATER.
You guys are still wrong. If you put SS rivets into aluminum, it can still cause the corrosion on the aluminum. I've seen it. Guy replaced his leaking rivets with SS solid core rivets. almost 8 years later, the hole in the boat was big enough the head of rivets were almost able to be pulled through it!
