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<blockquote data-quote="Crazyboat" data-source="post: 429589" data-attributes="member: 21552"><p>There's at least one good thread here, just spoke on it recently, try a search, if I can locate it I'll post the link.</p><p></p><p>Here's what I did as a kid, had a 15 Johnson long shaft (extra 5"), so with the help of dad we put plywood on both sides of the transom and filled in the space between with other pieces of plywood. Through bolted it in several spots and dropped the engine back on her. As I remember the mount spot was a little too thick for the clamps so we took a chisel and removed about an 1/8 inch and she slipped right on, then we bolted the engine to the transom as well.</p><p></p><p>I used to pull skiers (1 at a time and 120 lbs) with that rig. Had a friend with a 9,9 Merc mid 70's model that could almost keep up with me in top speed, those engines are fast. My Johnson had more grunt as he could get a skier up.</p><p></p><p>If you do what I did it won't take an hour or so and some scrap plywood. If it works seal the wood with something (Look it up) there are better things then what I did, I took some old oil based paint and slapped that chit everywhere, never had a problem with rot, but like I said, there are better ideas on that. (I was a kid)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazyboat, post: 429589, member: 21552"] There's at least one good thread here, just spoke on it recently, try a search, if I can locate it I'll post the link. Here's what I did as a kid, had a 15 Johnson long shaft (extra 5"), so with the help of dad we put plywood on both sides of the transom and filled in the space between with other pieces of plywood. Through bolted it in several spots and dropped the engine back on her. As I remember the mount spot was a little too thick for the clamps so we took a chisel and removed about an 1/8 inch and she slipped right on, then we bolted the engine to the transom as well. I used to pull skiers (1 at a time and 120 lbs) with that rig. Had a friend with a 9,9 Merc mid 70's model that could almost keep up with me in top speed, those engines are fast. My Johnson had more grunt as he could get a skier up. If you do what I did it won't take an hour or so and some scrap plywood. If it works seal the wood with something (Look it up) there are better things then what I did, I took some old oil based paint and slapped that chit everywhere, never had a problem with rot, but like I said, there are better ideas on that. (I was a kid) [/QUOTE]
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