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Do you have the name of the parts you used? To extend that cable? Any new fixes?Yes it is doable. "Where there's a will there's a way, right"?!
Figured I would share in this forum section how to fit one of these boats into a garage that is less than 7'. My garage measures 83" at the opening but I had a 1" lip of concrete that is higher than my driveway, therefore making my actual clearance 82". If you tried a caster mod or floor jac + deflated the tires all the way + removed the tower nav light ....the boat still will not clear that opening!
So here is what you have to do:
The tower collapsed position is defined by a cable at the rear of the tower base, you can see this cable when you collapse the tower. Open up the rear seat storage, stick your head inside, look up and you will see the mounting bolts for the tower as well as a rubber washer that is sandwiched by two metal washers with a 10mm nut holding them on the threaded cable. Secure the tower in the upright position so that it relieves the tension on the cable and gives you slack to work. Now grab a pair of pliers or vise grips so you can grab the threaded cable and then remove the nut. Do the same for the other side. Now your tower can sit inside the boat below the windshield giving you the same height as an SX without a tower. Just be sure to be extra careful when lowering the tower as it will sit against the window coping and use the tilt steering wheel I the highest position to give you temporary support so you can push the boat in the garage. Be sure to use some rags or towel in between the tower and window coping to prevent scratches or marring. You will need to build a simple support to act as a brace and hold the tower off the window coping and steering wheel. I'm using a pair of heavy duty plastic car ramps instead of building a support frame.
Hope this helps someone and illustrates that it can indeed fit!
UPDATE:
I made some extensions so that I can adjust exactly how low I want the tower to sit inside the boat. I went with a long bolt than necessary as it helps when I comes time to getting your arm up in there to there into the threaded coupler. I went with all stainless hardware. The thread is 1/4-20. Use blue loctite to hold everything together once you're ready and have your desired spacing
Here is the stainless threaded coupler. Half gets threaded into the tower cable and the other half the bolt and washer assembly threads into.
Here is the setup I use for the extension. This allows you to lock on the desired position.
With the adjustment nut spacing amount shown above this allows me to get the tower very close to the steering wheel in the tilted up position which gives you the lowest possible height.
Awesome tip!!! I had a long box there before for support, while in my garage collecting dust were these perfectly sized cover poles unused in the box.
Do you have a picture of these stops you’re referring to?
Glad it helped. Yes at some point Yamaha I think realized my mod since they lurk here lol and lengthened their cables so you had more adjustment to lower it further than say the 2019 and earlier models. I want to say they started doing it in 2020 models but could be mistaken.
Alright I gotta say it, if you going to talk in mm, where is the mm tape measure? On a serious note are you saying it’s hitting you window frame? On a 2017 AR195 it rubbed the window frame just a bit, not too the point I was worried about an issue. I just put a cloth there to prevent any scratches.
2mm = 5/64 inch
If I’m not mistaken the 195S has a plate on the bottom of the tower making it higher than the AR190’s and the AR195’s. Is it possible that the S has the same length cables but they go farther up so they are actually shorter, does this make sense? Either way you should still be able to add an extension correct? Hopefully someone else with a 195S can chime in.
That seems fine. If I were to remove cables completely I would be in the same position just resting on the window frame for support
I removed the stops from mine completely. Tower sits on the steering wheel and touches/displaces the port window slightly. I put a microfiber towel in there to keep scratches away. Works just long enough to get in the garage where I raise it back up.
