geppert
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Newbie here,
Bit embarrassed to ask this but .....
I have a 1991 Searay 180 Bowrider Ski boat. I have a 3 leg ski arch (well it's not actually an arch as it forms a triangle). Two legs anchor on two pads on the aft deck with quick pins and the smaller more vertical pole goes into a socket fitting on the aft rail. There is a spring in there and a small bar inside the socket tube. So the vertical piece slides in, turns, springs up, stops and you put a quick pin in so it can't go down and presumably turn and come out. So I do all this to take some pix and I go to remove the whole apparatus and at this point in time there is no way I can seem to get that ^%$#@ pole out of the socket. I am at my wits end. It will push down against the spring and it will turn counter clockwise (to what I assume is the position that will release it) but it will not come out. AM I MISSING SOMETHING? I have tried everything I can think of plus all my swear vocabulary and this thing refuses to come out. It was originally made my Dog Rail Industries in Houston but I can't find them? Sorry if this is a dumb question but does anyone have any suggestions (other than a crow bar)?
Bit embarrassed to ask this but .....
I have a 1991 Searay 180 Bowrider Ski boat. I have a 3 leg ski arch (well it's not actually an arch as it forms a triangle). Two legs anchor on two pads on the aft deck with quick pins and the smaller more vertical pole goes into a socket fitting on the aft rail. There is a spring in there and a small bar inside the socket tube. So the vertical piece slides in, turns, springs up, stops and you put a quick pin in so it can't go down and presumably turn and come out. So I do all this to take some pix and I go to remove the whole apparatus and at this point in time there is no way I can seem to get that ^%$#@ pole out of the socket. I am at my wits end. It will push down against the spring and it will turn counter clockwise (to what I assume is the position that will release it) but it will not come out. AM I MISSING SOMETHING? I have tried everything I can think of plus all my swear vocabulary and this thing refuses to come out. It was originally made my Dog Rail Industries in Houston but I can't find them? Sorry if this is a dumb question but does anyone have any suggestions (other than a crow bar)?