F-RIB 360 launching wheels fitting??

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Paul
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Re: F-RIB 360 launching wheels fitting??

Post by Paul » 06 May 2016, 22:07

Hamish

I've had my 20hp 2 years now and clocked around 60 hours on it and it's not missed a beat, always starts first or second pull, so I'm very happy with it :D
Kaman has the same OB and his is 4-5 years old and with a good few more hours and he's very happy with it :party
When you flush the motor and run it dry of fuel you'll not have any issues I'm sure ;-)

I'm sure you're going to be happy with your setup as these F-Ribs do get a shift on :drive
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Re: F-RIB 360 launching wheels fitting??

Post by James » 06 May 2016, 23:04

Hamish

It's looking good mate. I have the same wheels as you.
My 15HP Johnny doesn't hit the wheels but it doesn't look as wide as yours.
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Re: F-RIB 360 launching wheels fitting??

Post by philpot » 09 May 2016, 23:37

I already had a set of wheels so decided to try those which work fine and they are the longer stems, sorry I only have a photo is the raised position but you can see they sit much higher than Paul's. You will see in the photo that the shaft pushes up to the spray guard but in order to make this only a small bend in the fabric and to even reach a point of locking in the raised position I had to make spacer blocks from nylon sheet as can be seen under the mounting plate.

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