etrailer | An In-Depth Look at the CE Smith Bunk-Style Guide-Ons for Boat Trailers

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Hey, everyone. Shane here with etrailer.com. Today we're gonna be taking a look at the CE Smith Bunk Style Guide-On's. Now why would you need Guide-On's If you have a boat of any size really, especially one this size which I have personal experience with and you're trying to put it on the trailer whether you're on the river or you get a large crosswinds, until you get the front of the boat on the trailer where the back will not move crosswind or the river is actually gonna move the back of the boat so it's hard to get it straight on the trailer. That's where the Guide-On's come on or come into play. Once you get the nose of the boat up to the Guide-On's it's not gonna allow the back of the boat to swing out.

So it's gonna make much easier to center the boat on the trailer. This is a very simple bolt-on installation. There is no drilling required. Our bunk, our board is gonna come with the carpet pre-installed so that's an extra step we're not gonna have to take with like some of the other ones where we'd actually have to put this on. And it's gonna come with all the hardware necessary to get both sides installed.

And when we compare these to some of the other styles out there like the roller style. Roller styles are great. A lot of people prefer those. The only thing that I can see with the roller style, again, this is personal experience. If you have a roller back here, the roller runs up and down so it's gonna run along the edge.

You're talking about a roller that's about this thick so it doesn't have this wide of a space touching the side of the boat. Again, it runs up and down. So again, you have about this much touching the boat. When you go to put the boat on if you have a sidewind or a crosswind or again on the river and you're coming in at an angle a roller's great because you can still guide the boat on. However, if the boat swings out, that roller does not stop so it'll still allows that boat to swing rather than hold it center.

So in my opinion I prefer the bunk style over the roller style. This guide on is designed for trailer frames 3 inches wide by 4-1/4 inches tall. Now if you have a 3 inch wide by 5-1/4 inch tall frame there are U-bolts and they are sold separately. You can find those here at etrailer. The bunk or the board is gonna be 2 inches wide 4 inches tall and 24 inches long. The post itself is gonna be 21 inches tall by an 1-1/2 wide and provides a 75 degree angle. Now that we've gone over some of the features let's show you how to get it installed. To start our installation, we want the pole end with the two holes. You're gonna have a bracket or actually two brackets for each pole. We want the flat side facing the angle. We can use the upper hole or lower hole. It really doesn't matter. We're gonna use the bolt, hex bolt, flat washer, we'll run it through. We're gonna take our other plate on the other side another flat washer, and then another lock nut. We're gonna loosely tighten these down 'cause we wanna be able to adjust the angle of our board with the angle of the boat. Use a 9/16 socket and wrench. Now we're gonna take our bump board. We're gonna center it on the bracket. Center the brackets on the board. You're gonna have four large Phillips head wood screws to mount your plates to the board. (drill grinding) Once you're done with that you can repeat the same process for the other side. We're gonna come to our frame bracket. We can go below or we can go above. Going above, raises it up a little bit going below will bring it down. We're gonna set this on like this. You're gonna have U-bolts. One's gonna be flat and one's gonna have an angle. You can put these in two ways. You can put 'em in like this or with that angle on there you can actually crisscross 'em, which is what I'm gonna do. We're gonna start with this one. We'll go under the frame rail just like that. We're gonna put a flat washer on each side and a nylon lock nut. Then we're gonna take this one, we're gonna do it the opposite way. And then we're gonna do the same thing. Flat washer, nylon lock nut. Before we tighten this down, we're gonna take our bunk and we're gonna slide it in just like this. Now ideally we want this as far back as we can get it. It looks like I can go just about all the way to the back of the boat. You wanna go there. I'm gonna tighten my bolts down just enough where I can still get my bar in. And then once I get it in I can tighten it down all the way. We use th