Basics for kicker connection to outboard

[ebry710]

I want to add a 8-9.9 hp kicker to my johnnyrude 120.

1) What do you call the device/system to connect the engines. Auxillary motor tie rods? Kicker connecting rods? I usually iboat search, utube and goggle before I ask questions, but I haven't a name.

2) Who makes these systems.

3) Do some of these systems connect a tiller kicker?

4) Where are these devices added? To my Teleflex hydraulic system? To my Johnnyrude?

5) Where and how do align the motors? It this where the kicker plates come in?

6) Prop to prop, does the kicker prop go to the same depth as the main prop or does it go to a certain depth below the transom? If depth below the transom, what is the average depth?

Its kicker time. The last of this season's planned Whaler Outrage upgrades.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

look here. http://www.iboats.com/Auxilliary_St...9951643--**********.263545588--view_id.217124

 

[ebry710]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

Thank you tashasdaddy. I still don't understand. Do these units only steer the kicker? What sets the speed? Do you disconnect them and tilt the kicker when you use the big motor? Does each unit fit all trolling motors? How deep does the prop need to go below the transom.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

the av plate needs to be even with the bottom. you do not disconnect. it is attached to the main motor for steering, if you kicker is set up for controls, and can connect them with another controller, like you have for your main motor, or you control the speed at the motor itself.

each brand and model connect a little differently. suggest you do some deep research before buying.

 

[ebry710]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

the av plate needs to be even with the bottom. you do not disconnect. it is attached to the main motor for steering, if you kicker is set up for controls, and can connect them with another controller, like you have for your main motor, or you control the speed at the motor itself.
each brand and model connect a little differently. suggest you do some deep research before buying.

I appreciate your help, but I am starting my deep research here. Without help from my iboat friends, in Sonoma County, CA feel I am in a boating abyss. Our boat dealer are either frustrated that sales are down, out of business or seem to want me to buy a new boat. Our docks are almost empty with the fishing industry shutdown with the long term closure of salmon fishing and a number of lakes are too low to boat. Therefore the people in this area that I would normally ask are not where they would normally be. Looking at other people's set up is not possible before my free time end and boating season starts.

For me it is now goggle time.

 

[ebry710]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

So, it sounds like the axillary connecting rod attaches for the teleflex unit of my 120 to the front of the kicker. I the kicked has the connection you can hook it to the secondary throttle switch to the helm.

Do most kicker handles have a fixed a locking throttle so you get keep in on a lets say 5 MPH without having to twist throttle?

 

[rolmops]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

The system that is cheap and effective is the Panther one that iboats sells.
Another company called Stearns sells the same system.Judging by the way it is packaged,I suspect that the only difference is the name.
These adjustable rods go onto either the center front of your main engine or onto the metal rod that hooks up to that center bar.There are a few bits and pieces in that package that will allow you to hook up the other end on the front of your kicker.These hookups can be connected/disconnected very easily
It will only enable you to steer remote.You will still have to set your speed with your tiller handle unless you change that to a remote.

 

[SNye45]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

I have a 115 hp Suzuki as my main motor and a 9.9 Suzuki mauual tiller as a kicker, I also have the kicker directly plumbed into my fuel tank.

For convenience in steering the kicker from the Helm I have a "connecting rod" which connects the main and kicker togther. It has a quick connect feature that I can attach very quickly. The rod connects to the the metal frame at the bottom front of each engine.

When the kicker is working you can either raise the main motor to decrease the extra drag or leave it lowered to help with steering.

The kicker throttle arm has an adjuster for the pressure that is required for the throttle to turn and it is normally set so that you can adjust the throttle to a given place and leave it to walk up to the helm to relax and steer in comfort!

If you want a more expensive set up you could always have the throttle speed ajustment at the helm -just like the main controls.

I hope this information might help !!

 

[ebry710]

Re: Basics for kicker connection to outboard

The system that is cheap and effective is the Panther one that iboats sells.
Another company called Stearns sells the same system.Judging by the way it is packaged,I suspect that the only difference is the name.
These adjustable rods go onto either the center front of your main engine or onto the metal rod that hooks up to that center bar.There are a few bits and pieces in that package that will allow you to hook up the other end on the front of your kicker.These hookups can be connected/disconnected very easily
It will only enable you to steer remote.You will still have to set your speed with your tiller handle unless you change that to a remote.

That clears it up. I sure I can live with a constant trolling speed, but is it hard to change to a remote.