What Didn't Survive?? 18 Month After Build Update! (And trailer Make Over) 

Thanks Timmy your lack of trailer maintenance has given me the motivation I needed to do some👍😉 That poor trailer😂 inox and mako oil is a lot cheaper than a rebuild especially after only 18months!

Wow Tim, you’ve really stuck with this thing! Congratulations. I remember watching you with the Morning Tide boys, I think you guys should organize a reunion!

I ended up using zinc plates off of an old mercruiser I/O drive in five different spots on my trailer, I haul a 32' cc and what a difference $40 worth of zinc's randomly bolted to the frame of the trailer it makes, I easily notice %70 less rust on The trailer and components then the year before and the zinc's were %50eaten away, just an idea turtle to have as an option

Timmy about to sell his dream boat and trailor!?

Take a close look at the DC to DC charger set up, it may have likely cooked the 36V....

cool to c George again. mate, saltwater environment preventive maintenance is paramount n cost effective. tied, sun burnt or fk it do it tomorrow just wont cut the mustard. boat motor trailer has to be washed/scrubbed/flushed down every time, cool thing is u recognize this now. u have fixed the problems n ur preventive maintenance starts now. well done TT.

Good on ya Timmy, you're doing well. I was following your channel when you were down on the Tweed. Me too. And after the 22 floods we moved to Townsville cause we got wiped out in Murwillumbah. Still following your channel and watching out for you on the water. Keep doing what you are doing mate. I'm watching RoKKit as we speak too.

Love that suspension but it’s really not designed for boat trailers and salt water. You pretty much have to strip it all from day 1 and get it hot dip galvanised, swap all hardware out for stainless and ceramic coat the parts that can’t be galvanised. Also DeeMaxx makes a stainless backed brake pad with a lifetime warranty.

I spray nuts with Battery terminal protector - its yellow and has zinc in it. Everything else spray with lanolin once a month or every other month to slow rust. put anti sieze on the studs.

Great video Timmy 👍🏽🤙🏽

Good stuff mate its an awesome setup 👍

Wicked, Timmy!

Cheers for the vid bruz , great setup , trailers always cop a flogging hahaha

Towing over ya load rating is asking for massive trouble if ya need to get on the picks hard bro, let alone insurance saying see ya if someone crashed into you 🫣 send it though but Lordy I would not be keen haha

I told George the Nyalic would work a treat... Great Video Tim...

Wow, a year and a half and alot of things cooked! Whats doing with that?

As per usual, love the vid Timmy. Looks/sounds like you have or are going to sell the boat and trailer

Ooh Timmy, you got a few greys poking through there mate , stress

That weather sounds like Northern California over the winter.

hey mate a teflon isolation pad between the steel hinge point will help your alloy frame from being eaten from corrosion

We used copper slip grease on all bolts on the cranes on the harbour in South Africa. Do you get copper slip grease in Australia? It keep rust of the crane bolts and I use it on my reels as well.

It might be harder for you up there as the saltwater goes inland a fair way I think. But if you can dip the trailer in a freshwater boat ramp after you take it out it might help your corrosion issues a bit? Good chance to flush the motor too!

Wow, at all or most of the items your replacing are called wear and tear items and by the looks minimal up keep and maintenance on them. Lessons learned there I recon for you owning a big boat and trailer ! If you seen what George uses to clean his trailers ( AUTOSMART PRODUCTS ) they have a product called G101. This product is a product leader Australia wide to clean the very worst of boats and mould from everything, and I mean everything so have it in your kit when your cleaning the boat. Another tip coat your running gear in lanolin over a 3 day process coating them several times and use grease tape on areas that are larger when replacing to new items. And use the Lanolin on a regular basis. Then you will not have so many issues.

Well done Timmy. Great to see you taking the maintenance seriously. It always pays in the long run. Looking forward to some more great videos from the boat once the weather clears up. 👍👍👍

Get rid of that alxe/suspension set up. Put twin torsion axles set up and you'll never look back. Less stuff to rust and wear out. Best thing i ever did. Isn't the 36v battery under warranty?

Salt water and oxygen is magical thing eh. Need some opne bore shocks. Ive found mako oil works wonders. Good gernie/clean, dry and apply oil

Mate don’t get me wrong I like hearing your story of what you did , BUT this could have been so much great content if you bought a small tripod and filmed yourself doing all the stuff you’ve talked about ,that’s what all us couch lizards enjoy, watching someone else do all that stuff and we don’t get dirty or greasy or wet or hot blah blah blah Anyhow looking forward to more fishing when the weather is better Cheers from down south

2.7metres of rain , shit I thought the weather down south was bad 😳

Tectyl lasts ages, you won't have to spray it that often, once a year is plenty or even every 6 months if you're worried 👍👍

I PUT TECTYL ON THE FACE OF THE HUBS INSIDE ROTORS,BOTH SURFACES OF ROTORS,THE PADS AND ON THE CALIPERS, I MEAN EVERYWHERE. I'M A CAR MECHANIC AND DON'T SEE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT, THE BRAKES STILL WORK AND THE ROTORS TURN A BLACK COLOUR AND DOESN'T RUST.

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Awesome video bro any chance you have a better shot of how the boat was sitting on the tyres when it was off the boat? I need to do trailer maintenance and don't wanna have to deal with dropping the boat in the water and working on the trailer at the ramp

Pivot points

Serious effort required to cook a trailer that badly in 18 months. Was the thing ever bloody cleaned after using it?

Thing I learned quick about boats is if it has a grease nipple then pack it to the absolute balls with grease it can't do any harm hahaha. Salt water is so destructive people don't understand I mean look at Naval ships their crews are constantly blasting rust off and applying paint on a weekly basis one of my mates served in the Royal Navy for 22 years and he said its amazing to see what damage saltwater can do to anything. It wasn't so bad for me in the Royal Air Force even when I was based on the Sub Hunter base the spray from the sea used to blister the paint off the aircraft so they were always getting sprayed.

Have you considered wrapping anything not stainless in Denzo tape. It is way superior to tectyl

awsome vid timmy could you see if George is down to help reef adicts with a toy hauler and a new boat and trailer their last contract went to shit and are looking for someone to build their boat trailer and toy hauler. i thought to ask because George has helped you, now outer line and hope fully reef adicts. go check out their recent vid and see what George says. cheers mate have a good one

Lots of money and effort put into this just to risk getting caught over rated tow limit by police or insurance companies.

That suspension set up is crook for a Boat trailer

And you still fish??…

Lack of maintenance and no radio...it's only a matter of time until you are a news story. Everything you went through today was a real lack of maintenence. Sponsors put their name to this vessel and you haven't looked after it at all.