Spare parts

[rayski]

2014 195 HOI
This boat is new to me. I just removed the battery to take it into the house to keep on a trickle charger and found spare parts behind battery, A large ~7/8” nut (or metric equivalent) and washer. I presume these have been laying there for a while and may have even been left behind from new manufacture, and finally migrated to the stern of the boat.
does anyone recognize where these may have come from?

 

[Luc Lafreniere]

Don't recognize them. Do they fit the battery terminal (the bigger one)? But yeah, 5 years later, 180+ hours and I'm still finding bolts, zip ties, nuts, screws making their way to the stern. lol

 

[Stang7tl]

same here on finding lost bolts and etc. I guess when a tech drops the bolt or not they just grab another instead of trying to find it LOL must be nice

 

[markp]

the seat back are held on with large washer and wing nut found that was from one of my seat backs

 

[rayski]

Just found out (the hard way) where the washer and nut came from (see my post above from January)!

Yesterday, launched the boat and tied it up to the dock. Fortunately my wife was waiting with the boat, and watched one of the cleats pulled out of the hull! She was able to grab the boat and keep it from going sideways across the launch area, and the cleat remained attached on the dock line so we did not lose the cleat.

The washer and nut fit perfectly. Apparently from 7 years of Rotax vibration , the nuts worked loose and fell off. Now I need to check all the other cleats on the boat and try to find replacement nuts!

Word to the wise for other owners, you may want to check security of these before you lose a cleat. Seems like they should have been installed with Loctite.

 

[Winerocks]

Thanks for updating. I’ll add the cleats to the “check at beginning of season” list along with all the gear clamps that tend to vibrate loose.

 

[rayski]

I checked the rest of the cleats on my boat....
ALL we’re loose! I am really surprised that these were not installed using Loctite. The vibration from these motors will shake anything loose that is not properly secured.

 

[Luc Lafreniere]

I've seen reports of this here and there. So weird. I'm at 180h, all of them are super solid. Change of crew in the manufacturing who wasn't fully trained? lol

 

[rpm242LS]

I've seen reports of this here and there. So weird. I'm at 180h, all of them are super solid. Change of crew in the manufacturing who wasn't fully trained? lol

Not fully trained is my take on it. for those who have towers check your main bolts, found one of mine that had the nut only hanging on by a few threads. 2 others (so 3 out of 4) were finger tight only. they also seem to not understand what backing plates are. why bother reinforcing the area with extra fiberglass that your going to bolt the tower onto but then only use a flimsy tiny washer as backing for the lock washer to tighten to? And on top of that miss about 95% of the fiberglass reinforcement. Its almost like they grabbed an IT guy from the back office, shoved a wrench in his hand and told him to go put the boat together.