CE Smith Post-Style Guide-Ons for Boat Trailers - 40" Tall - 70 Degree Tilt - White - 1 Pair

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What's up everybody. It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna be checking out the CE Smith post guides. Now these are gonna mount to your trailer to help you guide your boat onto the trailer, when you go to pull it up. Let's check it out. This kit comes in pairs.

So everything you see here, we have the same thing on the other side of the trailer. So you're gonna get this arm. That's about 40 inches from the bend. It sticks up. It's angled out about 70 degrees.

You have the PVC tube that goes over the arm. So that way you can see it when it's in the water. Now this one's white. There is another option that comes in a black color too. So if you just wanna match your trailer or that's what your preference is.

You can get it in that style as well. Over on the driver's side of the trailer, we're looking at the hardware here. We got two U-bolts that go down into this bracket here. Now you see the one flat U-bolt, and the one that's got the little curve at the top. 'Cause this one goes over that one that's underneath.

And that secures our arm to the trailer. Take a look at the hardware here on the driver's side of the trailer. This is gonna be the U-bolts you get with it. And you also have the bracket at the bottom. So the U-bolts we have configured in this situation because of the beam. This is kind of a narrow beam. So it fit over there pretty nicely. If you look at the bracket there's tons of holes at the bottom, even for the elongated holes. Just to help you get around whatever trailer you're trying to put on. 'Cause every trailer's a little different. This will also work with I-beams as well. You have to switch up to configuration a little bit. But that's what those extra holes are for. Is because it's kind of universal. So you wanna make sure it works around the frame when you need it to. Underneath what secures it is the nylon locknut, with the washer in between the bracket and the nut. That way it's gonna help keep it secured. This isn't something that you're gonna want to take off and pull back on all the time. This is one of those things you're gonna tighten down and just leave it tightened down. Underneath the PVC pipe. You've got the pre galvanized steel post. So these are made to be able to be submerged. No issues about rust and corrosion. They're meant to stay on this trailer in the water. The PVC pipe is just a friction fit. So you see you push it down on there. That's what holds in place. So there's no hardware that secures it. Also, it can be replaced. There is replacement PVC pipes online on our website. You can order if something was to happen, or got scratched or broken, and you just wanna replace it. There's a lot of options out there for adding to your trailer as guides to pull your boat up on there. Ones I think that are like this, are gonna be the roller style. Which those more are on the inside and made for the boat to actually make contact and help it roll along the trailer straight. These are more just guides or markers. So you wanna see these from when this is under the water. So you can line up the boat perfectly every time you go to pull it up. Installation is pretty easy too. One thing will say, maybe have a boat on your trailer when you go do that. That way you can get the adjustments, we're gonna put it on there loose. And then make sure that it doesn't make contact with a boat before tightening it down. But other than that, you really only need a ratchet and a socket to tighten it down. It's pretty simple. See how I did it. We're ready to set up our side post here. We got our bracket. That's gonna go on the bottom of our trailer rail here. And then this is gonna go in between this arm is, so we're gonna set it up like this. This is how we're gonna attach it to the outside rail right here. We got U-bolts that we're gonna use to do that. So I'll get those. And try and do this and keep my hands out of the way. So you can see what I'm doing. I'm gonna loosely install this, 'cause I wanna make sure it's lined up with the other one on the other side that we have installed already. So we're just gonna drop our U-bolt down, and try and get to go in the proper holes to go across our frame rail right here. I can see the one on my side. I can't quite see the other side. See how far Oh, it looks like it's right there. Might have to move it back a little bit. That might work out in here. There we go. Got to that one. So it looks like I use the longer hole here on this side to get this to line up. That's why there are so many holes in here. So it's kind of universal there. So the first U-bolt I use is just the flat one. The second one we'll use has a bend at the top 'cause it goes over the existing one. So once again I use the slotted hole and line up the other one on the backside. Now holding in place, I'm gonna use a washer and a nut. And get these hand tightened. The other reason we wanna leave it loose is not only to line up with our other guide on the other side. But also to make sure it fits right with the boat. Every boat and trailer's a little bit different, especially just leaving this loose. Maybe install this with the boat on there. So you can slide this in or out, and see to make sure that it's not too close to the boat. It's got plenty of space so when you do pull the boat up here, it won't make contact. Now that we got it lined up and in the right spot. You can go ahead and go back and tighten down those nuts. Now I'm using a half inch deep well socket to tighten them all down. Just kind of gonna go back and forth to the different ones, and try and tighten 'em down evenly. Now we're gonna slide our PVC guide over the rail. You wanna make sure you line up this notch here with this portion. 'Cause that's what's gonna slide it over there. Just like that and hold it in place. Now finally, we're just gonna put the cap on the PVC pipe. That easy. Overall, I really like them added onto this trailer. It definitely is gonna help seeing and lining it up from the water when this trailer is submerged. It's gonna be easier to see these sticking out and be like, "All right, I need to make these adjustments as I pull the boat up onto the trailer." So I don't have to do it multiple times. Or look like a fool trying to do it in the marina. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out. I hope this helps..