Hey Mike!
Good to see you on the 6g side! As a former customer and recipient of stick # 17 ((O.G. crop) on the now defunct black beast of Aaaagh! I'm nowhere near local but you can put me on the list once you got a working stick!
Cheers from New Hampshire
Mike
p.s. mine too is a 2024 STX with a 2.3
I found ONE picture of my old car in digital form...
I bought it in 2001 with 162k miles, I sold it 3 years ago with 297K miles. Still ran great but had some rust issues on front engine support and on the rear axle carrier mounts, and had a leak on the AC lines (still running R-12!)...hard...
I turned mine on (both temp and compass) with forscan with no issues other than the compass sometimes gets stuck in "N". There are shortcuts in the Non as built section for it
easiest way to see that the load is balanced on a tandem axle trailer is to measure the shackle flex between both axles (the center link acts as a shackle); the distance from shackle to frame should be the same for both axles. If you have torsion axles, measure the distance between spindle arm...
Hate to be that guy but, by the looks of your carolina squat, looks like your boat could afford to sit back a little further on your trailer (i.e. looks tongue heavy), I'd say about 8" back on the winch post will do...truck will steer better too!
Nice boat BTW!
My first Ranger was a new 1994 gen 3 XL 4x4 , 3.0 V6 with manual everything; traded it 4 years later with 99k miles for a gen 4 1998 XLT 4x4 "off road" also with a 3.0and 5-speed manual; though this one had the vacuum hubs and shift on the fly knob. I had that one for 8 years and 177k miles...
I can testify that my 2024 STX has no harness behind the blank panel in the bed and, short of running wires to the battery with an in-line fuse I don't see any 12VDC options for my truck...wish there was!