- Let me walk you through how to replace the bushing
in your Waterborne Surf Adapter.
Now the first thing you're gonna wanna do is to make sure
that you choose the right durometer
for your weight and preference.
So the stock Waterborne bushing comes in 95a durometer.
We have three different durometers here.
We have 92.5a, 95a, and 97.5a.
So for most riders,
I'm going to recommend that 95a, right in the middle.
That's going to be the closest match
to that stock Waterborne bushing.
But if you weigh less than about 165 pounds
and you want an even softer feel
than you get out of the Waterborne bushing
then you may want to go with a 92.5a.
And if you weigh about 185 pounds or more
and you want a little bit of a stiffer feel
than you get out of the Waterborne bushing
then you may want to go up to that 97.5a.
In this installation video,
I'm going to be using the 95a red, because as I said,
that's going to be your closest match
to that Waterborne stock bushing.
Now, there's two ways to do it,
one of which involves a hammer,
the other which just requires some channel locks
and a skate tool.
This is the method I'm gonna be using
although I'll show you the hammer method as well.
So the first thing you're gonna do is just
take your skate tool and the only thing you need
to remove is this nut right here.
It's the kingpin nut on the waterborne surf adapter.
Now I have two surf adapters here.
One is detached and one is connected to a deck and truck.
Obviously this one here
would be easier to deal with,
like so I can turn the skate tool around,
but it's actually easier
if you've got your waterboard already on your deck,
you don't need to take it all apart.
You can just leave it all together like this.
So we're gonna just unscrew this nut.
Once we've got that kingpin nut off,
then we can remove this entire top piece
without taking out any of these washers
or the bearing inside there.
We can just leave that all together and just set that aside.
And now in here you're going to see that we have
the cube Waterborne bushing here with some washers
and some more bearings here.
So I use like a little tiny screwdriver like this
to kind of fish these out like so.
And that's how you're gonna get all of those.
Now, if you just put this aside in the same way
that it came out,
all you have to do is just put that
all back together right there.
But if you get this messed up and you're wondering
how this goes, what you have here is one washer
on the bottom followed by some bearings,
and then three washers on top.
So you wanna make sure that that goes back together like so.
So we're gonna just put that aside.
And now the first way that we could do this
is you could actually take a hammer
and hammer this kingpin bolt out.
Now if you do it that way,
you're gonna wanna make sure that you use either
like a wooden block or you can use your kingpin nut
to put that nut on the kingpin like so,
before you tap it with your hammer.
That way you're not going to ruin those threads.
But you don't need to do it this way.
That's the hard way.
Let me just show, show you the easy way.
The easy way is to just grab some channel locks
or some pliers, anything big enough to wrap
around this cube bushing.
And you're gonna just grab that bushing like so,
and we're going to simultaneously
kind of move it around while we're pulling it up and out.
And there we go.
Here is your Waterborne surf adapter bushing right there.
So now we'll just grab our replacement Riptide bushing
in our 95a red.
That's just gonna go right back in here,
the same way that we took it out like so.
It's gonna slide right into that groove.
Then we're gonna take this round of washers and bearings
and put it right back into that groove.
Then we're gonna take our whole piece here,
slide it right back on.
And then followed by our kingpin nut.
We will just tighten this down
and you wanna make sure that you're getting this snug
but that you're not over tightening it.
So that should be about good right there.
And that's actually a little bit tight
so I'm gonna back that off just a bit
and that should give us the play that we want.
So that's how you replace
your Waterborne Surf Adapter bushing.
And don't hesitate to reach out to me
if you have any questions.