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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
1987 Lund Predator: Customer boat
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<blockquote data-quote="ericman" data-source="post: 393390" data-attributes="member: 11909"><p>Before pictures.</p><p></p><p>I hate the way these Lunds are put together. </p><p>There is 5 feet of width in the floor, so 1 4 foot wide piece stapled to a 1 foot wide piece and the seam falls between supports. So naturally the staples rusted away years ago, leaving a springy section of floor.</p><p>A huge in-floor gas tank with absolutely no supports above it, so a very springy piece of floor there.</p><p>AND the floor is riveted in so when the floor rots away, you drill out the rivet, except the drill bit almost always catches the rivet and just spins it. Eventually you get all the rivet heads drilled away and you pull out the floor and all the rivet shafts remain, so you grind all them away or drill them out if you can, then you have all that aluminum to vacuum out. Time consuming as hell. This boat had an external oil injection pump for the 50 hp Johnson. Well those oil lines had failed long ago so it had a bad oil leak and the carpet was soaked with Blue oil, gas, etc...</p><p>Once the side panels were removed, the gunnels sprung up, oh yeah, half the screws holding the side panels in place were hidden behind rub-rail so all that had to come out too. Uggh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ericman, post: 393390, member: 11909"] Before pictures. I hate the way these Lunds are put together. There is 5 feet of width in the floor, so 1 4 foot wide piece stapled to a 1 foot wide piece and the seam falls between supports. So naturally the staples rusted away years ago, leaving a springy section of floor. A huge in-floor gas tank with absolutely no supports above it, so a very springy piece of floor there. AND the floor is riveted in so when the floor rots away, you drill out the rivet, except the drill bit almost always catches the rivet and just spins it. Eventually you get all the rivet heads drilled away and you pull out the floor and all the rivet shafts remain, so you grind all them away or drill them out if you can, then you have all that aluminum to vacuum out. Time consuming as hell. This boat had an external oil injection pump for the 50 hp Johnson. Well those oil lines had failed long ago so it had a bad oil leak and the carpet was soaked with Blue oil, gas, etc... Once the side panels were removed, the gunnels sprung up, oh yeah, half the screws holding the side panels in place were hidden behind rub-rail so all that had to come out too. Uggh. [/QUOTE]
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