I've been working on a circa 1970 17' fiberglass runabout with with an AQ130 drive. A cousin of mine picked this up at at an estate sale for $400 and asked me to get the engine running. I got the engine running well, but had to tell him that the transom, floor, and stringers were completely rotten. (He's an 18 year old that had no clue what he was looking at). We tore it all down and replaced all of the rotten wood.
We put the transom shield back on today, using the original holes in the transom skin as a guide, but now that it is all sealed up and bolted tight, it looks like it is mounted slightly counter-clockwise on the transom, maybe an 1/8 of an inch out. Is there any reason that it would have been mounted that way originally or did we actually get it on there crooked? We drilled the holes in the same spot, the bolts fit the holes well, and it slid right in place without any of the bolts binding like a few holes may have been askew. I find it hard to believe we drilled 6 holes that were so misplaced that it would have bolted up an 1/8" out.
We put the transom shield back on today, using the original holes in the transom skin as a guide, but now that it is all sealed up and bolted tight, it looks like it is mounted slightly counter-clockwise on the transom, maybe an 1/8 of an inch out. Is there any reason that it would have been mounted that way originally or did we actually get it on there crooked? We drilled the holes in the same spot, the bolts fit the holes well, and it slid right in place without any of the bolts binding like a few holes may have been askew. I find it hard to believe we drilled 6 holes that were so misplaced that it would have bolted up an 1/8" out.