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Most of mine are missing or are going to be. The rubber has gotten brittle from the heat and starting to crack.
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Driller wrote: Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:12 pm Most of mine are missing or are going to be. The rubber has gotten brittle from the heat and starting to crack.


That bumper design and placement does not impress me for a number of reasons.

Again, I swear there is ONE design engineer at Cobalt who nobody wants to call out for his occasional dumb designs and yet these pieces continue to make it into production. Waste basket anyone?
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Yeah, I looked at some of the car bumpers and they are soild molded into the bolt instead of a slip-on cap which can crack and fall off.
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Driller wrote: Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:55 pm Yeah, I looked at some of the car bumpers and they are soild molded into the bolt instead of a slip-on cap which can crack and fall off.

Roger that.

Yes, the closest thing I saw was the bumper stop on one of my doors. Maybe they make them in larger sizes?

Lowes always has a good aisle with drawers of these kinds of things. So does tractor supply.

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My go-to for odd hardware like this has usually been McMaster-Carr. Often, I can find something that works better than what I'm trying to fix. A quick search found:

https://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-rubb ... s/=191f95b

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ajcampen wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:15 pm Call lodder marine in cinci. They just replaced several of mine.
Called Lodders, they're shipping them down. Thanks aj.
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Spacers received, installed, and adjusted last weekend. Looked like OEM Replacements.
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Driller wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:30 pm Spacers received, installed, and adjusted last weekend. Looked like OEM Replacements.
Nice driller.

...but it did not happen without pics :)
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Ha!!! Didn't think it was worth the trouble.
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Driller wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:31 pm Ha!!! Didn't think it was worth the trouble.

so it didn't happen. ;)
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So how close where they to touching? None of mine touched.
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They were all touching except two, one on the starboard side. That side is of course the walk trough which needed it most. The other one was under the wet storage which was about a 1/4" low.
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If you could not have found them, driller, that versi-mold product I used in my anchor locker would also have worked well. The rubber bumper I made turned out well.
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These shots are by special request for A7. Very exciting shots.
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