After work today, I went home and hitched up and launched the boat. Drove it across the river to the Marina where my buddy lives. He hooked me up with a slip to use while I did my trailer work. Pretty stoked about that. It's made all the difference having the boat off the trailer.


As far as trailing arm removal, knowing the "trick" makes ALL the difference. We pounded a thicker wedge (end of a prybar) into the gap of the trailing arm and then put the air chisel on the back of the arm and let it pound away. The arm was off in about a minute! It took a lot of trial and error to get to that point. But even with us running in circles at the beginning, we had one axle swapped out in under 90 minutes! We had to quit at 9pm because we didn't wanna be jerks to my neighbor with air tools.

Axles painted with Herculiner bedliner.


textured bedliner finish. I'm cool with that.

My boat is black and blue, so black axles on a blue trailer are fine.


feels damn good to have one new axle on!