Re: Busted motor mount
I understand the whole torque side deal; what my picture fails to show is that the starboard motor mount is also crushed about two inches. Not as bad as the port side but still bad. If you notice the picture, it's clear some owner put a spacer below the port motor mount for a quick fix. I bought a rotten boat.
I personally think this is partially a bad design on the part of wellcraft having such a small mounting surface on top of fiberglass; still I don't understand how the entire bottom fell out on me this way.
I researched boats and still managed to buy the worst one in three counties.
My father, who knows something about fabrication, is going to contact a friend and ask him to make a sort of aluminum crutch, which will follow the contours of the engine compartment and distribute the weight and torque. Hopefully this will give me a couple of seasons. He also mentioned a sort of liquid metal that I've read about to fill in the rot after I drill it out like a cavity.
Hopefully I will get a couple of good seasons.
Edit: The gimble bearings were replaced two years ago, so that is one less thing I have to worry about. Besides the transom detaching.