Cafe Resto
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I know what you are going through. I am into a Café rebuild although I did not have any rot to fix I am doing a full repaint, upgrading motors, power coating and repainting all hardware parts, refinish complete cockpit, it seems overwhelming at times being a one man operation that has a full time and part time job. hang in there in the end you will have something to be proud of.
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I know what you are going through. I am into a Café rebuild although I did not have any rot to fix I am doing a full repaint, upgrading motors, power coating and repainting all hardware parts, refinish complete cockpit, it seems overwhelming at times being a one man operation that has a full time and part time job. hang in there in the end you will have something to be proud of.
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I know what you are going through. I am into a Café rebuild although I did not have any rot to fix I am doing a full repaint, upgrading motors, power coating and repainting all hardware parts, refinish complete cockpit, it seems overwhelming at times being a one man operation that has a full time and part time job. hang in there in the end you will have something to be proud of.
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Does anyone know the correct length for Cafe (or other 35's) throttle & shift cables for TRS? My shift cables are both 22', which doesn't make sense, & the throttles were 24/20 p/s. I did some searching on here & found a 38TG were both 24/22, while a 31Bullet was 22/18 for both. I asked Lipship & he said they no longer have that info avail for Cafe's, but agreed they should be different lengths. He said either one was too long, or one was originally too short & may have been too tight. Because the other models were matching, I would assume mine should too. Was hoping someone recently replaced theirs & knows for sure. If not, i guess i will have to run a line & try to get my own length estimate.
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Cafe Restoration
The restoration is going but never seems to be fast enough, it takes a long time to get around these boats. All cracks, scoffs, dock rash, unwanted holes have been repaired, glassed, all original stripes removed and it has a lot of primer on it now. swim platform and a few other parts are at powder coating right now, cockpit interior is getting redone along with sun pad, motors from my old boat are on engine stands awaiting upgrades, I wanted to job out the motors to Marine Kinetics for new cams and top ends but he is booked up for 2016, guess I will have to get the parts and do them myself which is going to bite into more time from me getting paint on the hull. I will post a series of pictures as soon as I can start putting something back together. This is a lot of work and I am a one man band that works 2 jobs. Thanks for asking Phil. I will post pictures when I get something completed. right now I am out of control fighting this battle on 8 fronts.
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I wish I could find out the correct cable length throttle and shift for a Café bravo boat, it would be nice to pull the new cables through the boat as I was pulling the old cables out
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[QUOTE=jsand117;4392554]I wish I could find out the correct cable length throttle and shift for a Café bravo boat, it would be nice to pull the new cables through the boat as I was pulling the old cables out[/QUOTE
You might ask someone at http://lipship.com/
You might ask someone at http://lipship.com/