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Move thread if necessary but seems like a non technical motor question.
Where to start? My Merc 400 is/was mounted on my 20" unusual transom height Starcraft Jet with a wood spacer. Here is a detail. The wood spacer holds the motor up so the bottom bolts meet wood at the bottom of the internal transom.
This transom board does not extend all the way down to the notches in the brackets (dark band is just a stain). Notice the bottom mounting holes for the motor are about 1 or 2 inches above the bottom to give them something to hold on to. The top screw mounting pads are just grazing the aluminum cap.
The bottom of the mounting bracket is slotted so the motor COULD be lowered not quite as much as the wood spacer but a lot.
My question is when I remount the motor should I let it slide down as far as it will go in the slots and then fill in the gap where the wood is with a much thinner piece of aluminum? That will lower the upper screw clamps by about an inch and of course the whole motor. The teleflex steering might have to be adjusted then.
Here is a long shot of the teleflex set up, sorry did not take a detail before un mounting the motor.
I cannot exactly figure out why with the slotted mounting the PBO did not let it slide down and fill in the gap like I want to. The other option I am considering is keeping it the way it is with a 1 inch aluminum spacer instead of the wood.
Any ideas?
Where to start? My Merc 400 is/was mounted on my 20" unusual transom height Starcraft Jet with a wood spacer. Here is a detail. The wood spacer holds the motor up so the bottom bolts meet wood at the bottom of the internal transom.
This transom board does not extend all the way down to the notches in the brackets (dark band is just a stain). Notice the bottom mounting holes for the motor are about 1 or 2 inches above the bottom to give them something to hold on to. The top screw mounting pads are just grazing the aluminum cap.
The bottom of the mounting bracket is slotted so the motor COULD be lowered not quite as much as the wood spacer but a lot.
My question is when I remount the motor should I let it slide down as far as it will go in the slots and then fill in the gap where the wood is with a much thinner piece of aluminum? That will lower the upper screw clamps by about an inch and of course the whole motor. The teleflex steering might have to be adjusted then.
Here is a long shot of the teleflex set up, sorry did not take a detail before un mounting the motor.
I cannot exactly figure out why with the slotted mounting the PBO did not let it slide down and fill in the gap like I want to. The other option I am considering is keeping it the way it is with a 1 inch aluminum spacer instead of the wood.
Any ideas?
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