water testing

[skeeterator]

Thank you all. Everything went well and has been kept up in good shape. Hopefully the paper work process goes by quickly and smoothly this coming week.

Congrats, hope you love your new ride.

[I fish 4 Bass]

https://www.bbcboards.net/showthread.php?t=590067

suggestions from BCB

Good article BCB

[WarEagle24]

Thank you all. Everything went well and has been kept up in good shape. Hopefully the paper work process goes by quickly and smoothly this coming week.

Post some pics when you get that bad boy home.

[OH_Ranger]

I have a 07 Z21. I've had it 12 years. No blisters and my axles haven't fell off yet.

An easy way to check for blisters is to intentionally put boat on the trailer crooked.

[Fishshooter]

Right but what he was saying above is once the boat is launched, go take a good look at the trailer while it’s fully exposed. Look for welds, rust, rusting brake lines, bunk condition. I would say for the water test take your time and go thru everything, have him show you how it works and that it works. All the lights, switches, bilge pumps, live wells, any electronics. Then how it runs and rides, how engine sounds, rpm,s it reaches, oh and of course stick your head in the bilge and check battery age and any water leaks. I know it’s a lot, but so are repairs. Just take your time and be thorough. If he doesn’t like it then he doesn’t want to sell you a boat.

Look close at the road armor covering welds that hold axle to frame. If you see a brown line in the road armor covering any welds, then most likely a weld has broken & the rust expands & cracks the road armor . My '04 had this that I found & rewelded. Next year on way to Okeechobee had other welds let loose & rolled left rear wheel from under trailer, LUCKILY while going slow into a gas station instead of 70 mph on I 75. Was a known issue in that era of Rangers.