www.iFourWinns.com

Graham, over here those would be 32" tubafors.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Twobeefours here! I'm old enough to remember the imperial units and still estimate things in inches, feet, miles etc.Sad, I even remember the old coins, when we had 240 pennies to the pound. I resisted the temptation to quote anything in metric, but M12 slipped in along the way!

Graham

now don't make me ban ya all J/K

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2006 FW 203 FS
2005 Dodge Laramie 1500
2003 CRF 247F SuperMoto racer
2001 CBR1100XX

I built a nice cart for my Cobra out of some 2x6s, the basic frame has doubled 2x6s so it is way stronger than needed, and I used some adjustible casters to wheel it around, that way I can get it set at the exact level I want to get the drive on easily.
About metric vs English...even after years of using metric tools with my VWs and Japanese cars, I still have a bit of a hard time thinking in metric, and my old Jeep has both, everything on the body is metric, most fittings on the engine are in inches, fitting as it is an ancient AMC designed inline six!

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Just did a little surfing around on the web and found one of these units $1400 US dollars

I too will be building a cart/dolly very soon for my boat. I guess I just decided that I don't want to haul the boat to the shop and have some kid work on my boat!!! If anyone is going to mess it up, it will be me.

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2000 248 5.7L DP
'92, '94 SXI 750, '08 STX 15F, '12 Ultra LX 300
Videos

My 99 Vista 258's bellows were original. I just had them replaced (I am not the original owner). The original bellows, while still pretty flexible, had lots of little cracks in between the ribs. I think I just caught it in time as there was no water intrusion noted BUT there were zebra mussles inside the bellows The mechanic is still confused as to how they actually got inside.....

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1997 Four Winns Vista 278
T - 4.3l EFI
Kohler 4esz Genset
379 hours as of 8/8/21

Well, I just got done building my dolly, and got drive off as well today.
Tommorow, parts store!!!! Bought a bellows yesterday, but they gave me the wrong one.

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2000 248 5.7L DP
'92, '94 SXI 750, '08 STX 15F, '12 Ultra LX 300
Videos

Nice dolly!

You know, there's a market for those things...

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Harbor Freight engine stand!!! and a little fab with some 2" square tubing and 1" square tube supports. Cheap and easy!

I saw someone adapt a Craftsman motorcycle jack with a couple of 4x4s stacke on the mount, the nice thing about it is that you can get the height exactly right very easily so you don't have to wrestle it on. Those jacks are about $90 or so, my stand was pretty cheap to build but if I had the room in the garage I'd have gotten the 'cycle jack.

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

I am controlling height with jack on boat trailer. Is working very well

I was just reading through the Volvo owners manual this afternoon. It says "bellows can be replaced without removing the drive". Has anyone tried this approach is it possible?

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Thanks,
Ben

1998 258 Vista 7.4Gi Duoprop

The exhaust bellows perhaps; I don't see how the drive shaft bellows could be done without pulling the drive.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Certainly for the "pre facelift" SX/ DPS it's only one type of exhaust bellows that can be changed without pulling the drive; this is only tue for the " stub" exhaust tube that is attached only at to the transom shield end. The corrugated bellows type that is attached to both the shield and the drive cannot be changed this way; it's retained in the drive by a BIG internal circlip that sits inside the bellows, this can only by removed when the drive has been pulled.

Graham

Not to get off the subject of outdrive stands, but when they recently did my alignment, they realized that my drive bellows had a slit in them and water intrusion into the gimble bearing. Go figure, my exact fear was actually happening without me knowing it. Wierd huh? Good thing they found it and checked it prior to the season starting.

I still would not attempt to do that job myself.

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2002 248 Vista
Lafayette, IN
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