Bunk trailer Rollers

Iwantachaparral

Iwantachaparral

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I have a bunk trailer
Are these rollers supposed to be touching the boat ?
 
It depends on if you need them for support. If not, then they are used for making your girl easier to launch and retrieve.
Do you have a photo of your bunks, I'm assuming that you have bunks.
 
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With only 2 bunks, you might want to raise the rollers for stability.
For me, I would contact the manufacture and see what they recommend.
If that is their design , they did it that way for a reason.
 
Also, is that the original boat and trailer unit? Maybe it had a different boat that set deeper and touched the rollers.
Getting something used can be difficult figuring the in's and out's of it.
 
Looking at the pictures in both of your posts, I believe that the purpose of rollers is to give the bow something to ride on while your girl is being launched and retrieved. I don't see any rollers in front of the bunks, so that tells me that all of the support is from the bunks. No matter what height you set the pollers, the only part that will touch them is her bow. If you are happy with launching and retrieving, then I would lieve it be.
Old School, if it ain't broke then don't fix it. I am a tinkerer, my girl was 9 yrs young when I got her, the rollers were not evenly placed from the manufacture, so I adjusted them. I believe your's is ok as it is. Like you said, not bad for 23yrs.
 
I’ve only launched it once because it sits at a dock all year but I did notice the bow almost seemed to slide down and banged on that roller I’m guessing. Maybe I will adjust that one up to touch
Also when I put it on the trailer last year I had trouble getting the bow up and over the bow roller
 
How many rollers do you have? When you reach the winch does the bow lift up, and how much?
 
Iwantachaparral said:
I’ve only launched it once because it sits at a dock all year but I did notice the bow almost seemed to slide down and banged on that roller I’m guessing. Maybe I will adjust that one up to touch
Also when I put it on the trailer last year I had trouble getting the bow up and over the bow roller
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Do you have a jack of some kind that you can use to put under the front roller that is under the boat?
 
Ok ,great. #1 If this were me, I would not touch the rear roller, that controls how the boat starts up on the trailer. If you move it up that it means that the trailer is higher out of the water, because that is your starting point.

Take your jack and put it under the metal frame work that the roller is mounted to.
Loosen the 2 bolts just enough that it will slide.
Now jack up the roller until it touches the bottom of the boat.
Go to the winch, loosen the winch strap and anything else that is hooked to the eyelet.
If the boat has dropped jack up the roller until the boat is back to where it was, allowing room for the eyelet to slide under the bottom of the roller and then locked into place with the winch strap.

This would be my starting point. Good luck.
Don't forget to tighten the 2 roller bolts.:)
 
My trailer is similar to yours. One roller up front and one at the back end. 2 bunks each side of center. I like the bunks because I can launch and retrieve without worrying about the boat sliding off the trailer.

The only problem I have with bunks is cleaning and treating the bottom area where the bunks make contact with the boat. I have to jack the boat off the trailer and climb around the axles. Not a lot of fun.
 
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My trailer is similar to yours. One roller up front and one at the back end. 2 bunks each side of center. I like the bunks because I can launch and retrieve without worrying about the boat sliding off the trailer.

The only problem I have with bunks is cleaning and treating the bottom area where the bunks make contact with the boat. I have to jack the boat off the trailer and climb around the axles. Not a lot of fun.
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i like the bunks too for launching. I haven’t tried to jack up and clean under the bunks but I think after this season I will have to figure out how to
 
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The original owner to my boat long ago never cleaned the bottom where it sat on the bunks. Even after I started cleaning the whole bottom, it took a long time to get it equally clean to the rest of the boat.

I learned from another Chap owner from the previous forum on how to jack the boat up and clean it. Basically, put two floor jacks underneath, one towards the bow and one at the stern. Raise it up. If your trailer suspension is like mine, this won't separate the boat from the trailer. The next step is to deflate all the tires so the whole trailer drops down. Once they are separated, I'll put one or two 2x4's in between the boat and trailer to stabilize it. Then start climbing around underneath to clean and apply bottom treatment.

Make sure you use jack stands once the boat is raised. Don't depend on the floor jack.

Thats the way I do it. Hope it helps.
 
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