Recent content by Dogwood

My boat has wood flooring and I'm going to look for the trays. Thanks,

The batteries are in the plastic boxes that Walmart sells. The lid clips on. I think I need to make some wooden brackets to make sure the boxes don't tip over while trailering.

OK. Distilled water it is. Thanks,

One of my Walmart deep cycle trolling batteries tipped over while trailering the boat and some fluid leaked out. I didn't see much fluid spilled and when I open the vent covers and look, it appears that the plates are still covered with fluid, but barely. There is about a half inch of air...

Still no luck in locating some aluminum transom corner brackets. I've contacted every manufacturer and parts place I could find and nobody gots em. These would work but I am going to hold out and keep looking for brackets with the 'D' handles on the back...

Ebay=good place to look. I didn't see any, but I'll keep looking and contacting the ebay 'stores'. If anybody spots them, please post it here. Thanks!

The boat is a 1985 SmokerCraft 'Sea King', but these brackets look like they could be universal. Any suggestions on where to buy cast aluminum parts like this? You can see that the bracket is broken on the left side. The right side bracket is broke in the same way.

I got to speak to a guy at Motorguide and he admitted that the Varimax has some bugs that need to be worked out. He said they have heard of this not switching off problem from some other customers. He told me to return it to Walmart since there was no simple fix for the problem. Walmart took...

I'm going to call Motorguide tomorrow and see if it's something simple I can fix. If not, I'll take it back to Walmart. I read the reviews on this model at BPS and someone else reported the same problem.

Thursday I buy from Walmart a Motorguide Varimax 40lb transom TM. Friday I put it on my old 14 foot Smokercraft and go zipping around the lake. I like the Variable speed adjustment and the blue lights are cool. The pinch clamp that adjusts the height works good too. I charge the battery last...