Stomper, glad to hear your toon build turned out good. Hard to beat a day on the toon. On the 8th season with my Fishtoon now. Has proven to be a real battle wagon. Made a few upgrades to it since you probably seen it last. This video shows the original build and the upgrades. BTW, good luck...
Nice - is that grille on your boat...?
lol..yessir...put one on my thunderjet a couple years ago and now its a must for me :) nothing better then cold “pops” and steak
hey, im doing the same thing as you. Gutted my tracker 17, converted it to a tiller jet. i used 1/8” for my floors and deck cause i had it laying around and stainless screwed it to the cross members. i know that stainless and aluminum react but it takes such a long time and i wanted to be able...
You'll be fine with the sides. Your decks are long enough to keep it braced. My rear deck is now gone,and the front deck about 2' shorter,so I braced mine. BTW,mine may end up a jet yet. Been thinking about it. You'll like the weight moved forward.
perfect thanks for your help
thats awsome!! im doing something very similar with my 93 tracker.. turning it into jet tiller..i wanted to keep weight down as much as possible and move as much weight forward as possible (fuel tank and batter in front). my sides seem fairly strong without the bracing but now that i see yours...
hello, new to the forum but have gotten lots of useful information off of here. I bought a 1993 basstracker tx 17 and i am converting it to a tiller jet. Im trying to keep the weight down as much as possible with this build. I have a brand new mercury 60/40 jet outboard on it. Anyone who has any...