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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Good Evening,
The reason they use the transom savers and wedges is that when the motor is tilted up to some extent (or fully) the lower unit acts like a big lever, which when you travel down the road and the trailer bounces a bit (due to no shock absorbers) that lower unit sits there and bounces as well, which, many will argue over time will weaken the transom. That little lever keeps the hydraulics safe, but it will flex quite a bit because it is soft metal. So...a motor that is tilted all the way up creates the largest lever (and essentially has the most amount of weight that can move vertically) so that little lever holds it up, but the lower unit has a bunch of flexing in it, which transmits directly to the transom.
when you put on a wedge or a transom saver, what you are doing is stopping the flexing since you are creating a support that does not allow the lower unit to "bounce" so to speak. When you remove the bouncing effect, there is no chance of any damage to your equipment.
If anything, many people would say it is a few dollars spent to potentially save any damage later on....
Steve |
