1996 Sun Tracker Rebuild

Awesome neighbor! Check out my rebuild in my sig. Close to the same toon!

So a very productive labor day weekend.  Was able to remove fencing, and get decking down to the condition shown below.  

Appreciate your reply.  Were you able to remove the wood around first?  Looks like it in the picture but wanted to confirm.

Quick question for the forum on fencing panels:  Ours is in pretty good shape but with older decals in tact.  Would love a poll of new fencing panels vs. sand and paint.  Thanks in advance!  As an update, finally have most of the decking off with plans to grind rusted bolts this week.  I'm jealous of all the rebuild project owners that have garages!!!  

Thanks Mike for your reply.  I'm torn but leaning towards putting the $295 into the new fence panels.  Either way is tedious but I don't have any painting supplies so...  On a positive note I finally removed all of the old wood deck today.  I pray that process is the most difficult of this rebuild as my hands are hurtin!!!! :-)

Hey Scott,

take your time with the panels extra hands will help.

Next question for the group.  Really appreciate all of the help thus far!  Have been using the Mac's aluminum brightener to clean the existing rub rails.  Pretty simple process:  Spray, let foam up, rinse with cold water, then scrub the remaining areas that didn't take on round 1.  Works pretty well as long as there is no build up of grime on the corners and other surfaces.  Moving on to the fencing...  

Edited by Scott573 - 02/03/2018 at 8:06pm

Sweet! do you know anyone that owns a business in parkville that has a dock??? If not let me know. You should be able to use my company's but we're downtown....PM me if you need to.

Hello there! 

Thank you! I liked the way it turned out for sure.

So the height did not match everywhere we had to make cuts both ways. Your fencing may be different but for mine I had to cut the height for all but 2 pieces. The website said just use a knife to score and bend off. That’s what we did, scoring it sucks you need to go over it about 3 times for it to make a clean snap. Make sure to change your blade for ever new piece, it take a really sharp knife. Once you get in the groove though and understand what you are doing it gets easier.

The tape I used is on the website you got your panels from. 

Looks awesome Scott! Great job on the gauges installation. 

Thanks Mike and Craig!  Much appreciated.  (Craig, definitely easier to work on when you can separate the upper and lower halves).  Was able to get head unit mounted last night using same method but waiting to finish until we receive a different water-resistant cover later this week.