Tight_Lines - 1/14/2020 9:24 AM
bass wrangler,
your second post is what i did. do all your prepping at home... it will be way less time you spend in the parking lot! you might want one other person with you to hold the boards down on trailer while you drive screws in
I did my four on a Ranger trailer and used a good grade bunk carpet and stainless steel staples and put a couple of zinc roof tacks in the ends I folded under so they would have a little extra hold to them. I counter sunk the pan heads bolts a little and bought new hangers as they are very inexpensive online (Etrailer). I simply had to make sure my measurements were correct on the hanger spacing and then I just had to replace the horizontal bolts at the ramp. But the prep work in the basement was the key as Tight Lines said.
As a matter of fact I discovered that if you let your wife drive a empty boat trailer up the ramp, if the ramp is low and rough and has a couple of strategically placed pot holes and you have 50lbs of air pressure in the tires you don't have to remove the old bunks at all, you simply have to drag them off the ramp...they come off very easily at about 30 mph no tools needed other than for the horizontal bolts...