Hi Greg; I'll assume you have a short shaft. Before I installed an adjustable motor mount I did a couple of different things. Turn the motor to one side and lock it in the raised position, then put a piece of wood to hold it up. I remember that I had to "bump" the motor against the transom to get the catch to engage. Once the latch was set the motor will drop back down a short distance so why the chunk of wood was needed. One other method would be to add a spacer to the top of the mount. Just tall enough to insure the motor clamps still attach directly to the MM. The other solution that worked better was to mount a wood pad on the back of the original MM that raised the motor up a couple of inches. Hope this helps Don Haas M15-248 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Patti Raymond <pattiraymond@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
I've been out sailing here in San Diego bay in Dancing Bear my new (for me) M-15 (#151) and I'm wondering how in tar-nation I can get this motor to come all the way out of the water...I have the original motor-mount of course and it seems to me I've seen pictures of these darn things free and clear but for the life-of-me I can't see how...
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