The manual, written in 1980 or whatever, says to use adhesive to hold in the o-ring and to install the paper gasket dry. Is that still conventional wisdom? The drives and transom assemblies have been rebuilt and freshly painted so they are clean and flat.
1974 Bertram 25, Twin 165's (replaced...
Ok, I had the mounts cut 1.5 inches shorter and the port engine aligned perfectly. The starboard engine gets really close but feels like it may be off a smidge… it just doesn’t slide in as well as the port side…. Perhaps it’s just that I inserted the alignment tool so many times on the port...
You nailed it. I had this same thought this week and disconnected and removed the mount to go lower today. The engine beds were very rotten and I rebuilt them completely, from the bottom up, and I built them too thick. My lowest engine bracket setting is about 3/4 inch high on the stbd side...
I have the rigging all set up to lift the front of the motors. I think Im going to wait until I have a second set of hands because moving the winch one click and climbing back out of the boat is getting old :)
I'm monkeying with getting my motors lined up, im thinking that one of them is not in correctly and I realized that the shop that "installed" my motors also pinched a ground wire and smashed this Gimble housing water tube. I can see from the parts catalog that the tube runs THROUGH the transom...
This picture is several years ago before the restoration. The batteries, battery wiring and fuel lines are removed right now because of all the glass work I did. The front motor mounts are about 1 inch from the raised fiberglass edge and you have to go in from the fuel/battery compartment to...
In my case the front motor mounts are NOT connected to the boat currently. I think that means I will need to adjust the top and bottom nut to LOWER the mounts into place and then drill and lag screw them in place. A cherry picker will be tricky here because I cannot access the adjusting nuts...
The motors were lifted into place by a shop. I have a cherry picker but perhaps I should span the transom with a wooden header and winch it off the engine bed again?
