czy40p

Looking for a the cabin latch for an 89 excel. I would like to see a pic of how it is even suppose to look I just have the hole in the door. I was thinking about making one, but if I could just re-make the factory one that would be easier
jim

Hot Boat

I gave up on mine. I used two polaris snowmobile hood hold downs. Works 10 times better. The door never budges

czy40p

Nice idea those will be a lot easier to find. I was wondering if the old one was POS and that was why it was broke.

Keith

If it was smoked plexi, a slider type, the original equipment manufacturer was Viplex in Sarasota, but I understand they've been merged or bought out over all these years. They also made several other plexi/lexan products for the Scarab models like wind deflectors and wind shields.

I might be able to get a pict of it tomorrow when I go down to the boat to open her up for the season. It uses a hook & eye to stay open, and an unusual latch to close.

I never bother to latch it closed, or lock it up. There's no point letting a moron smash a $1500 door to steal a $200 stereo. Perko probably made the latch, I'll see what mine says.

Keith

The latch on my 1990 is made by Eberhard.

Eberhard Manufacturing Company
21944 Drake Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44149
Phone: (440) 238-9720 Fax: (440) 572-2732
Email: [email protected]

Keith

Jim,

Only 1 of my picts turned out, but here is the angle from INSIDE the cabin. The piece I'm holding is like a flip phone, it pulls out and then I'm able to turn the barrel to lock the door. The brown/brass "bullet" stub to the right of this is what penetrates the molding on the boat to lock the door.

The outside is simply a round chrome push button with key.

You can see "Eberhard Patent Pending" in the pict.

Hope this helps.