On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Carl wrote:
> On the subject of Evinrude trailers, does anyone have a source for the
> coupler knob and the internals (bolt and ball clamp). I have a 1970
> Evinrude Explorer and Evinrude trailer that I purchased last year and I
> had to borrow the coupler parts from another trailer to get it home. Do
> they even make couplers with a knob anymore?
Are you talking about the assembly that locks the coupler onto the tow
vehicle's trailer hitch? My trailer came with a large square "hand-nut"
that goes onto a bolt that attachs to a wedge that pinches the ball - I
assume it's original. I wanted to replace it with a modern "cam" coupler
that could be locked, but the dimensions on my tongue didn't match up with
the bolt-on couplers I could find locally, and I didn't feel like cutting
and welding.
Fortunately, I found the pieces to repair the original coupler (new nut,
bolt, wedge, and pin) at a local boating store. They can't be that
uncommon - it was the first place I'd looked after realizing I needed to
repair the coupler. Unfortunately I don't know what they're called, so
they'll be tough to search for - I can look back if you want and see if I
have a part number, but I'm guessing no. I was going to suggest taking it
into a decent trailer shop to ask, and started writing that a decent
trailer shop meant somewhere other than U-Haul, when I remembered that
U-Haul uses that same coupler on some of their trailers. Here one is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/U-Haul-%2F-Fulton-Trailer-Coupler-Repair-Kit---2%22_W0QQitemZ370204439859QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090521?IMSfp=TL090521183005r20081
No guarantee that's the right part, but it looks like it.
Ethan
-- <a href="http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~brodskye/"> Ethan Brodsky </a>Received on Monday, 15 June 2009
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