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I slapped this motor on moms boat since she needed electric start and called it a day. Her house has a couple acre pond and they might get it on big water 2 times this years.

I am just keeping this thing until I buy a new trailer. I talked to a local shop today. $1400 for a new galvanized trailer. I am really leaning towards doing this. I have sold some extra stuff so I've got the money. I am keeping boat for a good while. She deserves a good ride. Plus Im getting...

My tongue weight is already too darn high, so I am not going to cut anything down. I have decided to moved everything back to where it was. My next step (hopefully tomorrow or next week) is to get a weight of my boat and trailer to see how much that total is. I think I am going to have to move...

My speed assessments are based on 1 in the boat. I was getting 13.5 mph out of this 15 with just me in it. I was getting around 8 with 3 dudes in the boat. Brett must've had that last bagel that morning and was slowing us down.

If motor is 9.9 OMC is doing some false advertising. Transom length is 20". This is long shaft so 22". I don't think I've ever caught too many fish. Hope my next trip out is the day!

Carb open all the way. Roller is in good shape, no broken bits on the throttle. I cleaned my carb and turned the screw on the cam roller just a 1/8th of a turn or so. Unfortunately the low speed idle adjustment on the side seems to be stiff. I'm going to lubricate it and see if I can free it...

Thing about this whole thing is my trailer is about to give up the ghost anyways. I was just going to experiment with it while I can.

I think I’ve got it! Weigh my boat and trailer, tongue weight should be 10% of total Number. Keep moving my winch stand back until I reach 10%, if tongue weight is still too high move axel forward. To answer my question above I think the answer is my axel is too far forward on trailer at this...

Thank you! I guess I should’ve phrased my question better. Does a tongue weight of 239 lbs for a Jon boat and trailer seem accurate? I read online tongue weight should be around 10% of total load, and I can’t see this Jon boat and trailer weighing 2400 lbs.

Can anyone explain why my tongue weight is so heavy? It doesn’t make sense to me unless my scale is just reading horribly. I weighed myself and it was pretty close

We’ll I moved it up around 20” just to see what would happen. My tongue weight now is between 179 lbs and 286 lbs 😂. I weighted it almost 20 times and have no idea which is accurate. It’s been all over in between too.

Quick video of my boat

Just took my bathroom scale out As far as boat and trailer weight I’m really not sure 16 foot flat bottom Jon boat with spartan trailer that measured 18.5’ from taillights to ball coupler

Current tongue weight is 239 lbs which seems way higher than I expected.

Right now the bunks are flush with the transom, but my there is 5’ between my trailer coupler and where the front of my boat sits. I got a lot of tongue

I’m sure I’ll be asked this…reason I want to cut bunks down is because my boat is 16 feet. My trailer is over 20 with the bunks this way. I’d like to be able to park it in my garage I’d possible.

I was looking at my trailer last night and realized my bunks extend 2 feet beyond the back of the trailer. I was wondering if I can cut these down and be ok? I have 5 feet of tongue to work with.

Every motor video I’ve ever shot someone has said that. I must have a crap phone. 100% running both cylinders.

Same hp motor. 1983 15 vs 1990 15. And we definitely didn’t catch too many fish, sounds like a pleasant problem to have though!!

Here she is running.