FL-cracker
X-H2O
- Location
- old exit 72 Melbourne
The liner "about a 10" section" in my Diablo hood has cracked/seperated from the shell..... the shell itself is also showing sighns of cracking..... there is some spider cracking going on toward the back/top part of the shell.... there are aslo a few stright cracks as well.
I wont lye, I have been pretty hard on my boat lately. I probably have about 10hrs in the surf on this hood...... probably another 20hrs at the lake.
In the surf I rarely land hard on the hood from Barrel roles, my rotation is usually at least 7/8's the way around, wich I wouldnt think would be hurting the hood.
Learning flatwater roles though I have landed plenty of times pretty hard on the hood.
I guess I have done a pretty good jod testing this hood.
I will call Jeff Monday, as he still has not shipped me a rideplate that I ordered back in December... that is already paid for, and I never recieved any air intake hoses for the hood either...... I cant complain too much here though as I have only left him a couple of messages asking for him too call me back..... that is my fault for not blowing his phone up like everyone around here seems to have to do.
Im a little frustrated as I paid full price for this hood, and didnt recieve it untill about two weeks before he ran the $400 special..... and I never recieved my rideplat that was already paid for as well.
I guess I will fix the liner myself, I will not pay to ship this hood off.... I have too much invested in it already.... once the liner is fixed I guess I will find out how long the shell holds up for.
The next hood I spend my $ on will definetly be stronger and lighter...... It will be more $ though of course..... I just wish I would have waited.
Hopefully Nick "yamaslut" will post some pictures of how he reinforced his liner to the shell.... now I wish I would have done this as well.
Sorry no pictures yet..... I have to find someone with a camera.
I wont lye, I have been pretty hard on my boat lately. I probably have about 10hrs in the surf on this hood...... probably another 20hrs at the lake.
In the surf I rarely land hard on the hood from Barrel roles, my rotation is usually at least 7/8's the way around, wich I wouldnt think would be hurting the hood.
Learning flatwater roles though I have landed plenty of times pretty hard on the hood.
I guess I have done a pretty good jod testing this hood.
I will call Jeff Monday, as he still has not shipped me a rideplate that I ordered back in December... that is already paid for, and I never recieved any air intake hoses for the hood either...... I cant complain too much here though as I have only left him a couple of messages asking for him too call me back..... that is my fault for not blowing his phone up like everyone around here seems to have to do.
Im a little frustrated as I paid full price for this hood, and didnt recieve it untill about two weeks before he ran the $400 special..... and I never recieved my rideplat that was already paid for as well.
I guess I will fix the liner myself, I will not pay to ship this hood off.... I have too much invested in it already.... once the liner is fixed I guess I will find out how long the shell holds up for.
The next hood I spend my $ on will definetly be stronger and lighter...... It will be more $ though of course..... I just wish I would have waited.
Hopefully Nick "yamaslut" will post some pictures of how he reinforced his liner to the shell.... now I wish I would have done this as well.
Sorry no pictures yet..... I have to find someone with a camera.
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