Ok so the previous owner of my boat mounted a power pole bracket with the bolts that go through the plate into the bolt block that does the raising and lowering of the jack plate which is 100% the wrong way on the rapid jack plate...in doing so they also drill out the threads in the top 2 holes and used a nut on the back side (inside). I just ordered a new set of blades from Hydrilla on here and ordered a new bolt block from Steve at Hydro Dynamics. What I didn’t do is think about how the cable that does the lifting of the motor passes through the bolt block and has 2 aluminum crimps on the end to keep it from pulling out when raising or lowering. I want to get the plate back the way it’s supposed to be and mount the power poles the way their supposed to be mounted on the plate but I’m not sure about the cable thing and having a tool to do the crimping.
Has anyone here ever replaced a bolt block on a rapid jack plate while there is a motor attached and attached to a boat? I really don’t won’t to take the motor off if I don’t have to. Also what was your solution for the crimped ends at the end of the cable?
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Originally Posted by crank68
