Sanger Bow Eye wont tighten up

(krbaugh) · (krbaugh) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 09-06-2009, 10:38 AM

I was in an 1998 Sanger DXII and Bow Eye wont tighten up? Does anyone have any experiance with this? How is the bow eye monted under the deck

(dohboy) · (dohboy) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 09-06-2009, 11:42 AM

On my DLX it had the nuts on the outside that tightened back against the hull. And inside there were nuts over a piece of metal that spanned the u bolt. It was easy with the open bow to access. Your gonna have to climb up in there.

(meathead65) · (meathead65) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 09-07-2009, 5:38 PM

Not sure in 98, but some of the 93-96 DX II's had a plywood backer behind the bow eye the was prone to getting soft.

Gonna have to crawl in there and check it out, unfortunately.

(krbaugh) · (krbaugh) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 09-08-2009, 3:07 PM

Sanger wood can get soft??

(meathead65) · (meathead65) **Join Date: Sep 2006** 09-09-2009, 5:14 PM

On both my 93 and my 96 the wood got pretty "crushed" by the washers and nuts from the bow eyes. I should have been more clear...I didn't mean to imply rotted. I think I had issues due to the fact that lifted the boat on a sling thru the bow eye quite often on both those boats, and that put an unusually high load against that backer piece of wood.