I have the long shaft Tohatsu 5HP 4-stroke on my 1977 M-17. My boat has the notch in the transom. The motor fits in the notch but you cannot use it to steer as it completely fills the notch. (There is a little room, but I move the motor as far to port as possible to keep as much clearance between the prop and rudder.) The shaft is just long enough for the purpose but a couple of inches longer would have been better. Regards, Rob On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:54 AM Andrei Caldararu via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Hello all, I have been looking for a long time for a replacement for my original Evinrude 4hp which is not in the best of shapes. (The plastic cover broke, the pull rope is looking its age...) My boat is a 1987 M-17 with the original fixed motor mount. I have found someone selling a Mercury/Tohatsu 5hp 2 stroke long shaft motor on craigslist which looks to be in excellent shape. (The style with the built-in fuel tank.) Unfortunately my boat is 250 miles away from here so I cannot do any measurements on it. I would buy this motor in an instant, if I could be sure it would fit my boat. The concerns are whether the shaft is long enough, and if it can be tilted up without hitting the transom. If anyone here on the list either has the original Evinrude motor, or a fixed-mount boat -- could you do the following measurements and send them to me? -- distance from top of mount on the boat to the waterline, or distance from inside the motor mount to the cavitation plate on the motor;-- distance from inside of the fixed mount on boat to transom, or distance from inside the motor mount to the top of the motor. Thanks,Andrei.