Anyone ever lengthen the 2 bla
Anyone ever lengthen the 2 black arms on the pivot shaft to move the cylinder back a couple of inches. There is a clearence problem with the cylinder butting up against the engines transom clamps when you tilt the motor right up. The local shops here solve the problem by just hacking of the clamps and bolt the engine to the transom. Works fine but I would rather make a modification to move the cylinder back far enough so it doesn't interfere with them...I sell these engines every 2 years and I know the value will drop with the clamps missing. My thinking is that I would only have to make the modifcation once and re-use everything on the next motor and it would be a straight bolt on there after. This is being done to accomodate a liquid tie bar so I can have both the kicker and main turn when fishing and by turning a valve switch to just the main turning. Anyone else done this?
Anyone ever lengthen the 2 black arms on the pivot shaft to move the cylinder back a couple of inches. There is a clearence problem with the cylinder butting up against the engines transom clamps when you tilt the motor right up. The local shops here solve the problem by just hacking of the clamps and bolt the engine to the transom. Works fine but I would rather make a modification to move the cylinder back far enough so it doesn't interfere with them...I sell these engines every 2 years and I know the value will drop with the clamps missing. My thinking is that I would only have to make the modifcation once and re-use everything on the next motor and it would be a straight bolt on there after. This is being done to accomodate a liquid tie bar so I can have both the kicker and main turn when fishing and by turning a valve switch to just the main turning. Anyone else done this?