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Bought a 1955 Alumacraft FD, I have a question
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<blockquote data-quote="gwar822" data-source="post: 464816" data-attributes="member: 24541"><p>ima make a new thread after the boats done with pics and everything , it will be cool but heres a quick update .</p><p></p><p>im an idiot./</p><p> i thought the kleet was not attached to anything besides the bow deck.. lol duhhh the bolts where rusted horrible so i never bothered drilling out the last 2 ... i finally got around to it and the bow deck came off.... actually in the pics you can the the 2 top bolts are attached the rear are not, the front 2 bolts i drilled out actually had a sliver left that held it on, once i used a punch and hammer to tap out the sliver the deck moved and was easy to slide off...</p><p></p><p>btw this is allot of hard work.... alllot of hard work indeed... wire brushing, cleaning, taking of the anti skid deck paint on the bottom... the transom, the trailer.... this boats allot more work then i anticipated but im ocd and like to do things thourogh when im done im making a youtube video with a slide show and commentary , and ill post a nice time line with pics and stuff of the whole process here. hopfully people will see it and learn from my mistakes.. ive made a couple lol but nothing some jb weld and a sticker cant fix... lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gwar822, post: 464816, member: 24541"] ima make a new thread after the boats done with pics and everything , it will be cool but heres a quick update . im an idiot./ i thought the kleet was not attached to anything besides the bow deck.. lol duhhh the bolts where rusted horrible so i never bothered drilling out the last 2 ... i finally got around to it and the bow deck came off.... actually in the pics you can the the 2 top bolts are attached the rear are not, the front 2 bolts i drilled out actually had a sliver left that held it on, once i used a punch and hammer to tap out the sliver the deck moved and was easy to slide off... btw this is allot of hard work.... alllot of hard work indeed... wire brushing, cleaning, taking of the anti skid deck paint on the bottom... the transom, the trailer.... this boats allot more work then i anticipated but im ocd and like to do things thourogh when im done im making a youtube video with a slide show and commentary , and ill post a nice time line with pics and stuff of the whole process here. hopfully people will see it and learn from my mistakes.. ive made a couple lol but nothing some jb weld and a sticker cant fix... lol [/QUOTE]
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