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First off, props to nautiqueparts.com. I purchase all of my parts from them as well as the parts for our club Nautique's and their service and knowledge is first rate.
Sometime this summer I must have hit a floating object in the river and bent the vertical section of the hydrogate when it was in the down, slalom, mode. I noticed the wake had changed and found the gate was bent in an area in the water flow region. Everything else was fine.
I tried to order the individual vertical piece and was told that piece was not available from the factory and my option was to purchase the entire assembly that is outside the transom of the boat.
Okay, pretty expensive, but you gotta do what you have to do. Ordered it, received it dropped shipped from Correct Craft.
Removed the old hydrogate, 8 screws.
Went to install new hydrogate. Problem.
I thought I would just use the new vertical and use my old parts since there was nothing wrong with them.
Holes don't match. Close but the new vertical is about 1/8" of an inch off on the holes.
Can't use the new parts because that would still require me to drill new holes in the hull that would be way to close to each other.
Maybe they sent the wrong parts?
Nope.
I was told that you have to purchase the entire assembly because the individual parts are not all the same and they are only sold as a set. So one vertical is not the same as the next vertical.
I bent the old one back to as straight as I could get it and reinstalled. Not perfect but close. I have the option post season of sending mine back to CC and they will try and "match" it to ones they have on hand.
I think it would be easier to just get a machine shop to duplicate my existing one.
Almost impossible to believe that these were not made to a template and all be identical but this is what I am told by the guys that make our boats.
Sometime this summer I must have hit a floating object in the river and bent the vertical section of the hydrogate when it was in the down, slalom, mode. I noticed the wake had changed and found the gate was bent in an area in the water flow region. Everything else was fine.
I tried to order the individual vertical piece and was told that piece was not available from the factory and my option was to purchase the entire assembly that is outside the transom of the boat.
Okay, pretty expensive, but you gotta do what you have to do. Ordered it, received it dropped shipped from Correct Craft.
Removed the old hydrogate, 8 screws.
Went to install new hydrogate. Problem.
I thought I would just use the new vertical and use my old parts since there was nothing wrong with them.
Holes don't match. Close but the new vertical is about 1/8" of an inch off on the holes.
Can't use the new parts because that would still require me to drill new holes in the hull that would be way to close to each other.
Maybe they sent the wrong parts?
Nope.
I was told that you have to purchase the entire assembly because the individual parts are not all the same and they are only sold as a set. So one vertical is not the same as the next vertical.
I bent the old one back to as straight as I could get it and reinstalled. Not perfect but close. I have the option post season of sending mine back to CC and they will try and "match" it to ones they have on hand.
I think it would be easier to just get a machine shop to duplicate my existing one.
Almost impossible to believe that these were not made to a template and all be identical but this is what I am told by the guys that make our boats.
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