I’ve decided I will be uploading the boat progress/update videos on Patreon. It’s free if you guys would like to check it out, or you can pay to buy me a 🍺. 😉
When towing, cross the safety chains under the hitch. Left chain hook to right safety hook on vehicle and right chain hook to left safety hook on vehicle. If the trailer breaks loose, the crossed chains prevent the trailer hitch from digging into the ground.
Bingo. Noticed that too. Many people do not understand that if the trailer becomes detached that the coupler will dig into the pavement or ground if the chains aren’t crossed. The “X” acts as a cradle of that occurs. Thanks for pointing that out.
Along these lines to help in case the chains need to catch the trailer, we put 2 quick links connecting the untwisted chains to form a basket to catch a falling trailer. U can also shorten your chains with the quick links to prevent dragging n decrease amount of drop for a trailer.
Tip for running wires, buy the plastic wire loom sheath, it'll stop wires from chaffing or getting cut from pinch points and tight areas from ripping the wires. It's super cheap and goes a long way to protect the wire.
Excellent job. One of my first trailers (for a small Whaler) had those center rollers with the axle caps. I replaced those with stainless washers and cotter pins because I wasn't confident they would stay on after repeated dunking in the brine😏. Clearly the original owner didn't wash his trailer off after salt water use. That's one solid small trailer. Subscribed!
Nice job on this resto. At the beginning, I thought this was just bonkers--but you've turned a trailer some might have scrapped into a good one! Beautiful work.
Nice video. I have a note: The coupling head bolt is not long enough. It should go through the nut at least 2x thread pitch to properly utilize the nylon locking ring. I would change it to a longer one.✌🏻
Beautiful ... except for the overspray and paint drops on those pretty new white wheels! NOOOO!! 😟😉 Who knew there were so many parts to a boat trailer! Looks good!
Good job ... however, being a boat owner myself, and having to install a new wiring harness on my trailer..all I can say is that exposed wiring throughout the length of your trailer...is nothing but trouble down the road. Luckily for me, my wiring is totally enclosed within the trailer frame tubing, with only exposed wiring at the coupler and at rack tail light.
Hola yo creo que más que restauración fue una reconstrucción porque cambiaste muchas piezas que considero podían volver a reutilizarse. Saludos y quedó muy bien el trabajo.
When using nyloc nuts, you need to have a few threads visible of the bolt when tightened. The bolts you used to fasten the coupler are too short. The nuts can come loose easily
Just make a wet sandblaster using a pressure cleaner- more powerful and you can use it outside because they are much cleaner than a dry one. No sand bouncing back all over you.
Awesome. Me personally would think it would look cool the frame different color than the powder coated parts. Wonder how much money was saved compared to buying new trailer?
That square plate where the hub axles bolts onto looks rusted too thin near the 4 holes on both sides for the axles to be bolted back on. I think a boat trailer should have a shock absorber installed with the coupler/ball hook that hooks onto the vehicle's towbar
I would cross the safety chains when pulling the boat trailer and boat. I would have run a ground wire to each light assembly, terminate them in a water proof box at the tung with the ground wire from the vehicle in the water proof box.
Should have painted the u bolts as well, to protect the galv longer. Coupling bolts not only are too short but should have been galv too, and the little dog chains are way too light to use as safety chains on a boat trailer- especially carrying a fibreglass boat. Even if those staples were marine stainless, they wont hold long in that wood - use galv tek screws. If you screw an earth to the trailer, or even the light housing, slather the drilled hole with mastic or silicone to stop the bare metal rusting- most important for earth connections because they'll be the first to go bad. Best to not earth the trailer at all but run an earth wire straight to the plug. Here in Australia we use 7 pin trailer plugs with earth going to it directly.
Dear Dr. Restoration, I have a small project, and from all your videos, you're good at what you do. I have been gifted a B&H oil lamp but the tank is split and I don't know a lot about an oil lamp for the flame spreader, I would love to send this to you and see if you can fix it but if you can't that's fine you could just throw it away and I would find another option to put into the base, but would you be interested in doing it?
You’re kidding yourself if you think that’s going to last. Get a torch, cut off ALL the old crap and replace with new. Use stainless hardware, and get a single leaf spring. You can’t wash out the salt and crap that gets in between those leaf springs, which leads to premature failure. Buy some sealed LED lights and wire those up all brand new. Unless of course you plan on selling it right away to make some money. Otherwise, do it right, or do it twice!
Hahahahaha. Good eye! Florida drizzle. People moving down here are aghast at the reality of trying to work outside dripping sweat all over your projects.
Shame the bolt you used on the coupler was too short. The Nylok nut only works if the thread of the bolt goes through it, the pictures clearly showed the old bolt did this by at least 2 or 3 threads, the new bolt is about 10mm too short (1/2")
mudguards are on the wrong sides - would have been nice to use stainless hardware - the nut on the hitch didn't go far enough on to catch the nylon - impressed with the powdercoating. I have the equipment but havent used it yet
I had issues with my lights not working on my trailer because the ground wire was only grounding through the thickness of the material where the screw went through instead of grinding down to bare metal where the washer and eyelet set on frame.
I worked in a powdercoating shop in the 80's briefly, they would paint straight over bare steel that had sat outside and had flash rust- no wonder tubing fence panels peel off paint in sheets after a few years. But this guy preps amazingly compared to them so would be fine. All the same I'd rather use either 2 pack for toughness or hammer finish because with the silicon content, its slicker and will wash off easier.( I've restored, rebuilt, and built new boat trailers when they had good fittings but the frame was rusted out.
Excellent video. No drama or gestures or unnecessary comments. There are so many other videos that sound and look like mexican novelas or like those two clowns from CNN (cuomo and lemmon).
One thing that you don't realise is that indicator lights are yellow, NOT red. It is obvious to people that see that orange is for indicators, and red is for brake lights. The US is soooo far behind the rest of the world with construction and use regulations for vehicles, compared to the rest of the world.
I only have one thought wouldn’t it been a better option to completely strip the trailer then rebuild it from ground up I mean you could have still got the boat off with the OG hubs I felt that it was back to front video tbh the hubs would have been the last thing you did tbh
@@aaronpeaty6619 I wasn’t sure if I was going to record the whole thing, wasn’t even sure if I was going to strip the whole thing when I did the hubs 🙂
I’ve decided I will be uploading the boat progress/update videos on Patreon. It’s free if you guys would like to check it out, or you can pay to buy me a 🍺. 😉
It would be interesting to see the final cost of the replacement parts compaired to purchasing a new trailer.
@@akafrosty6175 I spent about $500
Thanks for sharing. Wonder how long paint will hold versus hot dip galvanized. Looks great now.
Hot tip. Use the old wires to pull in the new ones.
I would have sprayed everything with cavity wax/oil inside and out to help it from future corrosion just saying from North of Newcastle 🇬🇧 😉 👍👍🍺
That was my thought also. I wouldn't be as concerned about the money spent, for me it would be the time spent doing the project.
When towing, cross the safety chains under the hitch. Left chain hook to right safety hook on vehicle and right chain hook to left safety hook on vehicle.
If the trailer breaks loose, the crossed chains prevent the trailer hitch from digging into the ground.
Bingo. Noticed that too. Many people do not understand that if the trailer becomes detached that the coupler will dig into the pavement or ground if the chains aren’t crossed. The “X” acts as a cradle of that occurs.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I also came here to say this.
Always cross chains
Likewise…. This is the most important safety rules in towing a trailer.
Along these lines to help in case the chains need to catch the trailer, we put 2 quick links connecting the untwisted chains to form a basket to catch a falling trailer. U can also shorten your chains with the quick links to prevent dragging n decrease amount of drop for a trailer.
VERY impressive work! 👍
Impressive video, thank you for putting in the time and energy to produce such an excellent video.
Tip for running wires, buy the plastic wire loom sheath, it'll stop wires from chaffing or getting cut from pinch points and tight areas from ripping the wires. It's super cheap and goes a long way to protect the wire.
Nice renovation, I hope all the parts are rustproof or stainless steel. Good luck
Impressive attention to detail, nice job 😊
Excellent job. One of my first trailers (for a small Whaler) had those center rollers with the axle caps. I replaced those with stainless washers and cotter pins because I wasn't confident they would stay on after repeated dunking in the brine😏. Clearly the original owner didn't wash his trailer off after salt water use. That's one solid small trailer. Subscribed!
Thanks for the tip and the sub! 🙂
Looks 1000% better! I was expecting a series of 2 or 3 videos for such a big project. Nice of you to squeeze it in one video 🙂👍
@@MusicalBox I considered it but my longer videos tend to do better 🙂
I hope you weathered the storms and hurricanes. Excellent res-mod.
@@grayjack5021 minimal damage 👍 thank you!
Nice job on this resto. At the beginning, I thought this was just bonkers--but you've turned a trailer some might have scrapped into a good one! Beautiful work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@DrRestoration this is one of those projects I'd love to see an update on a year or two just to see how it held up
Outstanding! We need more like this!
Thank you 🙂
only one thing ya left out rubber gromets on the wires on trailer lights they can rub out on the washers vary good looking job lots of work
That was VERY satisfying to watch!!!!
In the process of doing this very same thing!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Oklahoma USA 🇺🇸
It just looks great!
Fantastic! Great job! Thanks for sharing!
@@marcusmitchell1895 thank you!
Bolts must protrude through nylock nuts in order to hold properly
Very nice job. Very clean trailer. Thanks for bringing us along.
Thanks for watching!
Gotta love a Jeep Gladiator! I have an Overland too, excellent choice! 🦆You did an amazing job on this trailer, very well done.
Thank you 🦆!! 🙂
Awesome work man. 🤘😎🤘
@@kyleh4745 thanks! 😃
Dayum thats a nice coupler!!
That was epic. Great restoration.
@@Hyperion400 thanks!
A really nice job, it is unrecognisable from how you began. One piece of advice is that you should shroud the wiring with some 10 mm split shrouding.
YAY! I was hoping you would do it. This just made my night as funny as that is. 😂
@@alainabechtel874 and your comment made mine! 🙂
I need those old boat trailer wheel hubs
Good job. Congratulation. Luiz Paulo - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Nicely done
Nice rebuild I see 1 teeny tiny overlook which most trailers will have is the rubber grommets for the wiring
Beautiful job
Thank you! Cheers!
Отлично!!! Руки из плеч!!! 👍👍👍💪🔥🔥🔥
that was nice thank you for posting
Glad you enjoyed it
Sehr gut gemacht. !!!
Beautiful!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great job!🤩
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice video. I have a note: The coupling head bolt is not long enough. It should go through the nut at least 2x thread pitch to properly utilize the nylon locking ring. I would change it to a longer one.✌🏻
Just need the boat fixing now. 🇬🇧
Very nice work
Nice job
Most excellent restoration! Looks like it's ready for another 100 years. Appreciate the hard work and fine editing. Sub'd for more!
@@gforcekaras glad you enjoyed it!
Galvanized or stainless steel hardware always for a boat trailer. Especially in saltwater.
Beautiful ... except for the overspray and paint drops on those pretty new white wheels! NOOOO!! 😟😉 Who knew there were so many parts to a boat trailer! Looks good!
@@ChiefsFan62 it came off with acetone 🙂
Good job ... however, being a boat owner myself, and having to install a new wiring harness on my trailer..all I can say is that exposed wiring throughout the length of your trailer...is nothing but trouble down the road. Luckily for me, my wiring is totally enclosed within the trailer frame tubing, with only exposed wiring at the coupler and at rack tail light.
Kool nice job. Let's go fishing
Good job
Perfeito!!! Ficou nova de novo!!!
Thank you 💙
Nice job
Thank you! Cheers!
Hola yo creo que más que restauración fue una reconstrucción porque cambiaste muchas piezas que considero podían volver a reutilizarse. Saludos y quedó muy bien el trabajo.
When using nyloc nuts, you need to have a few threads visible of the bolt when tightened. The bolts you used to fasten the coupler are too short. The nuts can come loose easily
That´s a top job.
Hopefully you and the new trailer made it through Milton ok
@@gohamm34652 we made it through with minimal damages, thank you!
💪👍💪🌟 VERY NICE JOB
Excellent restoration. Turn down the sand flow to stop choking and spitting on your sandblast rig.
Just make a wet sandblaster using a pressure cleaner- more powerful and you can use it outside because they are much cleaner than a dry one. No sand bouncing back all over you.
Awesome. Me personally would think it would look cool the frame different color than the powder coated parts. Wonder how much money was saved compared to buying new trailer?
Very nice work, I always enjoy watching your videos. I agree with the other comment, is the boat next?
I’m not sure yet
Great video! The new bolts holding the tongue on don’t seem long enough for the nylon locking nut to catch the nylon part. Maybe I’m wrong?
Very good
You should cross your safety chains so if the hitch does fail the chains act as a saddle to hold the trailer
When threading cables through metal you should have rubber grommets inserted in the hole to protect the cable. PETER LINDOP UK.
Aren't your safety chains supposed to be crossed under the tongue, so they can catch it if it comes off the ball?
@@mhfuzzball correct, the ones I got are a bit too short so I’ll be replacing them..
fuzzball, exactly what I was going to post! Ya beat me to it! :)
Nice result, and likely only twice the price of a new one. 😂
That square plate where the hub axles bolts onto looks rusted too thin near the 4 holes on both sides for the axles to be bolted back on.
I think a boat trailer should have a shock absorber installed with the coupler/ball hook that hooks onto the vehicle's towbar
Pay attention to metal edges, metal must be clean and smooth for paint to last.
When installing new lights paint reflective surfaces in white or Alluminium paint.
Show de bola 🎉🎉🎉
Buy,a new trailer, and do some fishing, probably get a season worth! 😂
Nice. I would of bought a new coupler they do wear out.
I would cross the safety chains when pulling the boat trailer and boat. I would have run a ground wire to each light assembly, terminate them in a water proof box at the tung with the ground wire from the vehicle in the water proof box.
Should have painted the u bolts as well, to protect the galv longer. Coupling bolts not only are too short but should have been galv too, and the little dog chains are way too light to use as safety chains on a boat trailer- especially carrying a fibreglass boat. Even if those staples were marine stainless, they wont hold long in that wood - use galv tek screws. If you screw an earth to the trailer, or even the light housing, slather the drilled hole with mastic or silicone to stop the bare metal rusting- most important for earth connections because they'll be the first to go bad. Best to not earth the trailer at all but run an earth wire straight to the plug. Here in Australia we use 7 pin trailer plugs with earth going to it directly.
Dear Dr. Restoration,
I have a small project, and from all your videos, you're good at what you do.
I have been gifted a B&H oil lamp but the tank is split and I don't know a lot about an oil lamp for the flame spreader, I would love to send this to you and see if you can fix it but if you can't that's fine you could just throw it away and I would find another option to put into the base, but would you be interested in doing it?
You’re kidding yourself if you think that’s going to last. Get a torch, cut off ALL the old crap and replace with new. Use stainless hardware, and get a single leaf spring. You can’t wash out the salt and crap that gets in between those leaf springs, which leads to premature failure. Buy some sealed LED lights and wire those up all brand new. Unless of course you plan on selling it right away to make some money. Otherwise, do it right, or do it twice!
@@Mike-hb4pc 🤷🏻♂️😂
Hope you used stainless staples!
@@TheJimbob1603 yup!
All new now 🎉
Nice one. Will you restore the boat too ? 🤔
I’m not sure yet 🙂
@@DrRestoration come on. We Know you want it 😂
@@juliom6260 it’ll depend on how this video does, it takes 3-4x longer to do something when recording it 🙂
@@DrRestoration I can imagine it. Well, do whatever is better for you. I'm sure we'll love it.
It looks better than the one in my yard. Owner was driving by when the trailer folded at the tongue.
22:34 the sweat 😧
@@jmcEX yup it was so hot that day!
Hahahahaha. Good eye!
Florida drizzle. People moving down here are aghast at the reality of trying to work outside dripping sweat all over your projects.
Is it called rusty metal primer because it's for use on rusty metal or because it looks like rusty metal after you've painted it?
i can smell the rust dust from here
Looks great but you used no grommets on the wiring. That'll create problems
Mmmm grinding galvanization off
Shame the bolt you used on the coupler was too short.
The Nylok nut only works if the thread of the bolt goes through it, the pictures clearly showed the old bolt did this by at least 2 or 3 threads, the new bolt is about 10mm too short (1/2")
😂good“s🎉‼️
mudguards are on the wrong sides - would have been nice to use stainless hardware - the nut on the hitch didn't go far enough on to catch the nylon - impressed with the powdercoating. I have the equipment but havent used it yet
padlock on the spare
I had issues with my lights not working on my trailer because the ground wire was only grounding through the thickness of the material where the screw went through instead of grinding down to bare metal where the washer and eyelet set on frame.
wrong on primer? better use primer for zinc coat..the meter have treated by zinc ..normal paint cant couper together with zinc
I always wonder, is powder coating durable enough without another corrosion protection layer? A scratch and it rusts, right?
I worked in a powdercoating shop in the 80's briefly, they would paint straight over bare steel that had sat outside and had flash rust- no wonder tubing fence panels peel off paint in sheets after a few years. But this guy preps amazingly compared to them so would be fine. All the same I'd rather use either 2 pack for toughness or hammer finish because with the silicon content, its slicker and will wash off easier.( I've restored, rebuilt, and built new boat trailers when they had good fittings but the frame was rusted out.
Excellent video. No drama or gestures or unnecessary comments. There are so many other videos that sound and look like mexican novelas or like those two clowns from CNN (cuomo and lemmon).
New split pin on bearing hub please.
It was new at first I bent them opposite directions rather than both the same way.
Don’t make me get up in your a**
3 minutes. You haven't forgotten the wheel bearing grease, have you? It looks suspiciously dry.
Never mind a new one would probably cost moreand that one is as good as new now
One thing that you don't realise is that indicator lights are yellow, NOT red. It is obvious to people that see that orange is for indicators, and red is for brake lights. The US is soooo far behind the rest of the world with construction and use regulations for vehicles, compared to the rest of the world.
Might as well buy a new trailer
epoxy paints are much more durable that are even offered in a throw away spray can.
Got damn that trailer was forked. Almost not worth the $$$ and effort. Jeebus.
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Never said I was a professional 😜
How much did it cost?
It cost about $600 to restore
I only have one thought wouldn’t it been a better option to completely strip the trailer then rebuild it from ground up I mean you could have still got the boat off with the OG hubs I felt that it was back to front video tbh the hubs would have been the last thing you did tbh
@@aaronpeaty6619 I wasn’t sure if I was going to record the whole thing, wasn’t even sure if I was going to strip the whole thing when I did the hubs 🙂
That thing won't last a couple of years without anodes. I mean, bolts are the anodes now.
Definitely would not have wasted 10 seconds sand blasting and painting when a new galvanized one would have been better choice
I wouldn’t waste 10 seconds fu***ng your mouth but keep it up and I’ll give you an hour.
No nie tak sia zakłada zawleczki 🙈