First, sorry no pictures yet. I forgot to take some this morning before I came here to work.
I built a transom elevator for my longshaft with 4 pieces of equal size cut angle aluminum. At the top I bolted a 2x6 (most of you know its actually 1 1/2 x 5 1/2). My transom is 1 1/2 thick so this works good. The small problem I am seeing now that I have it all put together and bolted on is that from the transom to the boat to the 2x4, there is a differential in width only due to the aluminum of the boat that wraps around the transom. Its maybe not even a quarter of an inch. When I bolted the aluminum bottom legs to the transom and tightened it down it causes that piece of aluminum to bend just a light bit inwards to make up for the gap differential. I was wondering if this is a problem, or if I should loosen it up and just put a washer or two in there?
Everything is real solid and feels strong...
its a 1988 25hp motor.
thanks
I built a transom elevator for my longshaft with 4 pieces of equal size cut angle aluminum. At the top I bolted a 2x6 (most of you know its actually 1 1/2 x 5 1/2). My transom is 1 1/2 thick so this works good. The small problem I am seeing now that I have it all put together and bolted on is that from the transom to the boat to the 2x4, there is a differential in width only due to the aluminum of the boat that wraps around the transom. Its maybe not even a quarter of an inch. When I bolted the aluminum bottom legs to the transom and tightened it down it causes that piece of aluminum to bend just a light bit inwards to make up for the gap differential. I was wondering if this is a problem, or if I should loosen it up and just put a washer or two in there?
Everything is real solid and feels strong...
its a 1988 25hp motor.
thanks
