hatch lift

[Dave's ZT260]

You’re correct, all hatch lifts are made third party. So are most of the electronic products in almost every boat. Therefore it's an industry wide problem, not just checkmates. I've never had problems with my lifts, but my ZT is only a year old.

If you want to eliminate your hatch lift problems you could go with the hydraulic hatch lift Dana Marine makes. It's not cheap, but very cool. It uses a trim pump and lifts the hatch fast. (this thing could throw a fat lady off your sun deck) My old lifts took 30 seconds or so. I just ordered this new lift from Trick Marine.

Here a link to a video of it in action. Click on power hinge video

http://www.danamarineproducts.com/videos.cfm?CFID=62338&CFTOKEN=78762103

 

[mkhammer]

cool stuff dana marine is about 30 min from where I live there is another company called eddie marine they make the same hardware dana does its a little cheaper. my convincor is 6 years old and I have no problems with my lift yet. but if I do I will replace it with `one from eddie marine. you can check out thier new electric hatch actuators and billet hydraulic power hinges at WWW.EDDIEMARINE.COM. I have thier billet optima battery boxs, 24" billet trim tabs & pumps, and other trick stuff on my boat I bought from them.

 

[cooperider]

Originally posted by Dave's ZT260:
You’re correct, all hatch lifts are made third party. So are most of the electronic products in almost every boat. Therefore it's an industry wide problem, not just checkmates. I've never had problems with my lifts, but my ZT is only a year old.

If you want to eliminate your hatch lift problems you could go with the hydraulic hatch lift Dana Marine makes. It's not cheap, but very cool. It uses a trim pump and lifts the hatch fast. (this thing could throw a fat lady off your sun deck) My old lifts took 30 seconds or so. I just ordered this new lift from Trick Marine.

Ah..this would be where get the "ejection sun deck" You see one of your freinds coming and you press the switch and.....

 

[Chris E]

Reminds me of a warrnaty issue i had with a 260 Sea Ray. They installed the hatch lift so that it still had a little travel in it when it was full down. Customer held switch a little too long and pulled the lift out of the floor. Customer went boating without realizing what happened. The hatch lift bounced around until it shredded the serpentine belt and the customer seized the engine. Cost Sea Ray a new 454 Mag and repairs to the boat - $17,000 cdn. by the time we were done.