SeaNova – between the hammer and the anvil 

I’ve been chaffing of late at my lack of ‘direction’ during my free time. I’ve still not finished cleaning out the garage since the launching of Danga, for goodness sake! I was looking at a new boat project but I didn’t want to build out something that I wouldn’t be using or that I’d have to drag across the continent to our retirement locale, Nova Scotia.
So, on a whim one day, I mentioned to my mother that I liked the maroon Mustang her neighbor’s son had sitting in the driveway. I proclaimed that given the opportunity I’d like to get something like that and fix it up.
Well, my mother asked and the car was for sale – and for a price I could afford if I were to skip my trips to the local pub. Damn! My big mouth. I checked the car over and it looked essentially stock and in reasonable shape. No rust and only minor dents from an impact with some stationary object in the front left.
I bit the bullet. I bought the thing and presented it to my wife as her birthday present. I knew she always wanted a classic, red muscle car – so it was a hit. Now, of course, comes the hard part – doing the work.
Here are some pictures of the thing as it is today….

I got the new axle prepped and both attached to the frame. Here’s what it looked like after I got the bunks reattached.

I was keen to get the boat off the blocks and back on the trailer. My wife thought the Danga looked precarious propped up on blocks like this. I guess I did too since I didn’t let any of the dogs set up camp in the shade under the boat…

Here I started the process of jacking up the boat and bringing the trailer back under the boat:

And here things are some 30 minutes later, sitting pretty and nicely balanced.

and you can see here that the rear spring is primarily compressed, confirming our speculation that the center of gravity was actually BEHIND the front axle and causing all sorts of trailer performance problems. Now the tongue weight is a respectable ~120 lbs, w/o the extra weight I had added to the front supports of the trailer….

All in all, I’m pleased that it has gone well. Now all I need is to tiddy up the lighting, reinstall the alignment runners and create a new fender for the tandem set…..Ambien Research Findings
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Well, the majority of the welding is done but I won’t quit my day job just yet. After picking up the tandem axle kit, the second axle, more springs & wheels, I got to work. Using the recommended spacing for the slightly larger springs listed in the documents provided by Six Robblees as a guide, I spaced out the hangers until the various angles and spaces were appropriate. I prepared the surfaces, clamped down the brackets and then started playing around with the welder. What a Gong Show! It took 45 minutes to find ‘a heat’ appropriate to lay down a bead. Once that was worked out, the actual welding went OK. Here’s an example…

Here’s the equalizer showing the linkage between the two springs:

Here’s what the four spring sets look like in the final layout:

I was able to re-use the steps that my father-in-law, Bob, had fashioned from strut, welding them to the stern, behind the second axle:

The last thing I did was to paint the undersides of things so that I can tie everything together tomorrow and get ready to flip the frame right-side-up.