Factory Tige Ballast question

holiday13 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 325 City: Flemington

Does anyone know what the individual weight capacities are of the factory Tige ballast tanks? I am doing my own system and was going to make a hard cover for the rear sacs (so I can store stuff on top of them) but the factory tanks are nice and reasonable, just want to make sure they hold enough weight. Thanks

lee · Outlaw Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 196 City: USA

Which model boat?

holiday13 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 325 City: Flemington

Sorry, 24v, which I believe should be the same for all the "v" models

DavidHoff · Posted: Feb 28, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject:

holiday13, I am pretty sure It is 100 total with 4 tanks. So I'm guessing 350 In the 2 back pockets and then 150 on each from one.

Ruune · Posted: Feb 28, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject:

250 in each corner. its the same for the 22v and 24v. the problem is that theyre rigid compartments and you lose storage space.

DavidHoff · Posted: Feb 28, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject:

Ruune · Posted: Mar 01, 2005 5:58 am Post subject:

I think you lose the storage under the seats, and about that level in the rear storage bins. Not sure about the front storage compartments... you might want to think about replacing the tanks w/ sacks.

what colors did ya get?

holiday13 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 325 City: Flemington

I saw them this past weekend, the fronts pretty much eliminate the front storage so I am going to use sacs there, but for the rear I was going to build hard covers for the sacs anyway so that I could store stuff on top of the tanks.

DavidHoff, That would sound about right, the fronts did look smaller than the rears.

Ruune, I don't know how accessable your boat is but if you could measure the dimensions I can calculate volume and weight here at the office.

Thanks everyone!

Ruune · Posted: Mar 01, 2005 7:02 am Post subject:

holiday13, I'm actually using sacks, but the boat is about 45 mins away and I'm at work too! Razz

holiday13 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 325 City: Flemington

Always worth a shot, I am just trying to decide to either stay with the sacs or get the hard tanks right from Tige, my dealer got me a price and they are very reasonable. I figure for wake surfing if I need more rear weight I can put sacs on the rear floor.

JANSEN · Outlaw Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 101 City: LYNNWOOD

Tige's factory 4 tank ballast is 850 lbs. Not sure how it is divided up.

DavidHoff · Posted: Mar 01, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Fishmaster · Posted: Mar 02, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

We had the factory ballast in our 22V and removed the front tanks to get the extra storage back since the front tanks are much smaller than the rear tanks, then ran lead in the very front compartment at about 300 lbs. With the rear hard tanks you can still get two boards on the rear compartment of a 22V. The factory plumbing is very good and easy to get to (a pump can die).

A lot of the Tige dealers are going with the Rival system which is all sacs but in the same locations as the factory setup. Looks like a great system but I got used to the rear hard tanks so we went factory on our 24V. I hear www.barefootinternational.com has custom sac's for the 24V bow compartments so I'm hoping to go that way and keep the main front compartments for storage.

I'm sure we'll still find a good home for the lead Smile

holiday13 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 325 City: Flemington

I got measurements on the tanks and was able to calculate volume/weight. The rear tanks are 312 pound each capacity and the fronts are 125, which IMO take up more space than they are worth like montstower said. Thanks for all the feedback.

Ruune · Posted: Mar 03, 2005 6:45 am Post subject:

Bowen · Posted: Mar 03, 2005 7:37 am Post subject:

DavidHoff, If I'm in dallas this summer...we need to ride... Cool

DavidHoff · Posted: Mar 03, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: