Looking for feedback if you have actually attempted and succeeded in replacing the stock traveler bar on the early series boats:
1) I'm not willing to cut the inspection holes
2) I can get all over the aft access areas -- so getting there is more than doable
What I can't confirm is the presumed nut on the bar ends. No camera lens I have will get that close to the transom to look straight up and that includes my eyeballs.
I'm making the assumption from previous photos by others and the cut up versions I've see photos of that a 1/2 extension (long) with a wobbly would make contact -- curious if anyone has tried and either bailed or succeeded? I may have inadvertently done myself a disservice when I replace the cockpit floor. I let it run a bit long and it's obscuring the already narrow transom gap. I should be able to hog out an inspection port of sorts and at least get back the native tolerances in line with the nut(s).
1) I'm not willing to cut the inspection holes
2) I can get all over the aft access areas -- so getting there is more than doable
What I can't confirm is the presumed nut on the bar ends. No camera lens I have will get that close to the transom to look straight up and that includes my eyeballs.
I'm making the assumption from previous photos by others and the cut up versions I've see photos of that a 1/2 extension (long) with a wobbly would make contact -- curious if anyone has tried and either bailed or succeeded? I may have inadvertently done myself a disservice when I replace the cockpit floor. I let it run a bit long and it's obscuring the already narrow transom gap. I should be able to hog out an inspection port of sorts and at least get back the native tolerances in line with the nut(s).