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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
If you are doing it yourself, all you need is the boat on the trailer with a tongue jack, silicone, and possibly a couple blocks of wood.
Here is what you can do...
1. lower the tongue jack to it's lowest position. adjust the outboard so that it is vertical to the ground. place blocks under the skeg. Attach and tighten your transom straps from the boat to the trailer.
2. remove the upper mounting bolts and only loosen the lower mounting bolts. (the lower bolts I would assume pass through a slot rather than an actual hole in the motor)
3. Now....go to the tongue jack and start cranking the tongue upward. you may find as you do this, you will have to go to the back of the boat to get the old silicone to "let go" so the motor will move on the transom. Once it does, you can continue to crank the tongue up until the upper mounting bolt holes line up on the motor.
4. Reinstall the upper mounting bolts using silicone as needed around the hole and the threads to seal the transom. Re-silicone the lower mounting bolts, and tighten.
5. Give the silicone some time to set up and go test...
Once you do it once, you'll have no issue readjusting as you feel you want to.
Steve |
