Water pick-up tearing carpet on Prestige trailer

[Road King]

I have a '02 Lund 1900 with a Prestige bunk trailer. I really like the trailer but the water pick up catches the carpet and gouges the wood on the inside bunk. Does anyone have a good fix for this.

[redbone]

One thing that will help is to put the trailer in the water a little deeper when you load so the pickup doesn't contact the bunk.

[pwrfshn]

Road King,

I went thorugh the exact same thing this year.

Finally went to the local marine and had them replace the entire bunk with one that was shaved down the distance the water pickup travels. Now I can powerload without a problem. They charged me $75 to take the old bunk off, shape the new one, and mount it. Well woth it. If anyone from Prestige is reading this, I can send you my address so you can mail me the check for doing your job. I love the trailer, but Lund or Prestige need to coordinate this stuff a little better.

Tried all of the loading changes, more water, less water, and the only way to avoid the 1" of error is to crank that baby on all the way (not for me).

Let me know if you need more help or photos.

Good luck,

[Road King]

Mexico,

Thanks for the reply. If I understand your fix, you had a bunk reshaped (shaved down) so that the boat doesn't rest on that portion of the bunk from the back of the boat up to the pickup? I have to crawl under my boat in the garage but is the reason you need to do that instead of just shortening the length of the bunk because there would be no place to attach a shorter bunk?

[pwrfshn]

Didn't want to lose the support of the extra bunk.

Seemed like the best fix at the time. I suggested the shorter bunk, but the marine said no.

[Road King]

Mexico,

I think I understand what you are saying but if I understand your modification to the bunk, the boat would not never rest on the modified part of the bunk, which would be the area from the rear of the bunk forward to the location of the pickup. Is this true or am I missing somthing.

Thanks.

[pwrfshn]

Instead of resting on the entire 2X4 or whatever portion rests there, it is supported by a thinner part of the 2X4, albeit still supported.

Is this clearer? If not I can try again.

[JohnF]

Maybe narrower would be a better word than thinner?

Mine is on the way. We'll have to take a look. By the way, I gave prestige the heads up on this thread, perhaps we'll see what they have to say.

John

[Brian_MN]

For what it's worth, my 2001 1800 on an Eagle did the same thing. This year, with a 2002 1900 and another Eagle trailer, no problems. Looks like they got it right and provided clearance for the water pickup.


Brian Gilbertson
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