Got some new photos...
Well it stopped raining around 4:00 and I was able to get a few things done....
First, I made some gaskets out of "Goop" (see first photo). I also have some butyl tape that I'll use as well.
And I fitted out a SS pivot bolt. While I was checking the fit, I was cleaning up some "mud" that was in the pivot hole and noticed that the mud had wood fiber in it...:naughty: So I got worried and cut an access hole to the pivot pin. Dang..... to say the repair job was halfa$$ is an insult to all the Gomer Piles of the world.... (see pic #2)... There was no way to get a good dry seal around that.... so... I had to remove it entirely. See the next two pics. I'm going to make a backing plate out of Trex tomorrow.
More pics to come....
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