Video Transcript for What to Know About the Yates Bow Roller for Boat Trailers

What's up everybody, it's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we'll be checking out the Yates bow roller. So this is going to be a replacement part that goes right here on the front of your trailer. Let's say yours is worn down or it's not spinning like it's supposed to anymore because it's been out in the weather so long. It's an easy part that you can replace and get back up, running as new. Let's check it out.

Now what this is gonna do, is it's gonna go right here on your trailer and you can roll it, so that means when you're pulling your boat on there, and let's say the bow hits it, it's gonna roll up like that and it'll be just fine, it'll roll all the way. Acts as a stopper too, so as it hits this, it's better than it hitting the trailer and scratching up your boat. Also, when it's just sitting on there and you've got to tie it down, if your boat is to move and travel up and down, it's gonna hit this instead of the metal parts of your trailer, so that's, again, just gonna save your boat from getting all scratched up and damaged. It's made out of a thermal plasticized rubber. So it's gonna be a little more soft than regular polyurethane and has a little more of a structure than rubber does, so it's a nice in the middle of both of those.

I also wanna point out that the material it's made of isn't gonna leave marks on your boat. So some of the other ones, if it was just made rubber, and you we're to come up here, pull your boat up and hit it kind of hard, it might leave black marks here on the bottom of your boat. This isn't gonna happen with this one, there's not going to be any scraps or issues. Now I'll give you some measurements. It's going to be three inches and three quarters long, that's the width here.

And then it's also gonna have a diameter here where the hole where you gonna put the bolt in is going to be a half inch. So that way you can just get the right hardware to make sure it's gonna go through your trailer and your roller. Now you also can get these in a couple different colors, they also will come in blue and black. So if you don't want the yellow one that we we're installing today, there's two other options at might match your boat trailer a little bit better. It's really easy to install.

You just take this bolt out. Check out how we did it, Ready to install our new roller here, we're just going to set it into place. We're gonna use the existing hardware from the old one that we took out. Just slide it through the holes in the middle, mash it up on the other side. Now, something that would suggest is if you aren't getting ones with the bells on the side, and you see this the old one we took off. It did have those, so this bolt's a little longer than it should be so it's gonna stick out. You can get different sized hardware to run through that where there's not as much sticking on both sides, but this will still work like this. So we have the washer on this end, push there, and then we're gonna put a washer and nut on the other side. Just gonna get started by hand and I'll come back with tools and tighten it down. Got a ratchet and a wrench on here, just need to go ahead and tighten it down. So I went in, tighten it down, made sure the bolt head and nut here are tight, but this can still freely spend 'cause we're gonna need that when you go to put the bolt on. Overall, super easy to replace and get this part back up and running. and I liked this one because it's not gonna scuff up the boat either. So you don't have to worry about making any marks and now this rolls like it was supposed to again, it's gonna all work with that trailer and make it easier to get that boat up there. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out. I hope this helped..