Kicker mount

[cyclops2]

Re: Kicker mount

As a side note. I forgot to check the clamps after remounting a 9.9 on my Lowe Aluminum fishboat. I was very unhappy at the chewed up circles in the soft transom clamping area. I made a 3/16" thick plate to cover the mess. :redface:

Still not totally accepted the screwup I did.

Rich

 

[smokeonthewater]

Re: Kicker mount

WAY back in the day.... lil over 20 years ago I had a 12' tinny w a 7.5 E-rude. I had an aluminum plate on the transom with indents to fit the pads on the clamp bolts.... It was a commercial product. It was great because the engine couldn't move even if it was a little loose but no matter how hard you clamped it it didn't hurt the transom.

Back to the O/P what do you have to mount through?

 

[viper1]

Well as I stated this is a kicker mount im adding. The motor will mount on it not the transom. I will bolt straight thru the mount and transom and also a aluminum 1/2 plate. You can't pull a bolt thru that plate if you wanted to. And the mount is stainless steel so that either. Between the mount and heavy plate the pressure will spread out. I do have some engineering back ground and design. But I don't automotive. I think it still applies here. I do like the idea of using plywood on transom when putting a outboard directly on. Also the inside plate will be quite a bit bigger. My main concern is the thru holes for the bolts and sealing them. Thinking of using a silicon caulking on bolts then around head after tightening. Or some sort of epoxy.

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[fishrdan]

Re: Kicker mount

My main concern is the thru holes for the bolts and sealing them. Thinking of using a silicon caulking on bolts then around head after tightening.

Sillycone and boat's don't go together. Use 3M 4200 (Home Depot) or Attwood 7200 (Walmart) polyurethane marine sealant. Jam a bunch up in the holes and move a screwdriver around in the holes to coat, the inside of the holes, then coat the bolts. Put enough on so it squeezes out when everything is tightened down, then clean up the excess with paint thinner and some paper towels. You don't need a bunch gobbed everywhere on the outside, it's what's on the inside that counts. (that sounds kinda' mushy and sentimental...)

What type of bracket did you get?

One thing to check before drilling any holes, make sure the brackets that bolt to the transom are parallel and flat. The brackets on my Garelick bracket were pulling together, canted inward, because of all the spring pressure. I had to jimmy some shims in between them (to keep them straight) so I could mark the bolt holes accurately. Also, all the hardware on my bracket was kind of loose. I tightened it up enough to take a bunch of slop out of it, but loose enough so it would still operate.

 

[smokeonthewater]

Re: Kicker mount

I mean what material are you bolting through... How thick? Glass only or glass and plywood?

 

[cyclops2]

Re: Kicker mount

You will need to completly seal ALL holes & plate edges with some goop. We use GE Silicone rubber. If you do not seal ALL plate edges. Water gets inbetween the surfaces & then the mold shows up constantly in cloudy weather.

Caution..................When you start sealing the edges of the plates. GET IT PERFECT !! 1 month later those plates ARE STUCK on. We get them off with ...CAREFULL... use of a heat gun. CAREFULL use.

The plates on our racing boats are all at different angles to each other. We modify Stainless Steel nuts into the correct angled wedges. We run 8 or more SS nuts onto a cheap steel bolt the is long enough to be safely clamped in the clamp of the metal cutoff saw . Piece of cake. We have done easily a 100 for several stuffing tube boltings.

Caution ......ALL the flats must be lined up so that the saw CLAMP ....Prevents... nut rotation during cutting. Go for it with a FULL face shield.

The nut size is a slide over fit of the bolt size used in the boat.

Forgot to say the wedges fit under the bolt hexhead & the lock washer or self locking nut. That keeps the SS bolt or SS threaded rod straight when tightened up.

Rich

 

[viper1]

Re: Kicker mount

Just wood and the aluminum.