Hi Connie; You wrote this detailed description of how to cut out a shallow sail locker about a year ago. Well, after a year of thinking about it, I finally did it. So far so good. I didn'r need to put in any kind of additional hatch though. With my 1st mate manning a large screwdriver outside, I with the help a couple of extensions on the socket wrench was able to hold the nuts from the inside. My question has to do with cutting the Fulton MM pad down to a usable size. The back side of the pad I have is honeycombed with a combination of slots and holes. Was you pad like this or solid? If it was the same as mine, there is a place to cut it leaving only a small recess in the top portion, does that seem to work ok? I came to the same conclusion as you when I dry fitted the new MM, it sits way to low on the transom with the full size pad. Also, I want to get my SS Honda into the water an inch or two more. Thanks for all you past and future assistance, Don Haas M15-248 Conbert H Benneck wrote:
... The FULTON polyproplene engine mounting board was much too big, so after checking the dimensions of the top of the original fixed M15 motor mount and comparing it with the FULTON mount, I would have had to mount the FULTON too far down for my tastes, so I cut off 2 1/2 inches, measured from the top of the polypropylene mounting board.
This has the effect of raising the mounting position of the FULTON mounting bracket by 2 1/2 inches to maintain the same geometric HONDA 2 HP engine relationship between the old fixed mount and the new one, with the FULTON mount in the operating "running" position.
Cutting off the polypropylene is no problem, I used a sharp carpenters saw - but scribed my cutting line all around the four surfaces of the mount so that I could maintain a straight cut. ...
Connie M15 #400 LEPPO
Any questions or discussions welcome.
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