Diesel Dan
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I started on my transom rebuild this weekend. Removed all the old rotten wood and cleaned up behind it. Patched some holes up and removed the transducer. The wife picked me up some outdoor grade plywood at Lowes. (a benifit of her working there) cut 2 pieces of 1/2'' and glued them together with Dap contact cement and cut the backside piece of 3/4", Put on the first coat of Minwax Spar Urathane. It should be solid as a rock when complete I sure hope it is. Also bought the stainless steel hardware. Had to convince myself that was worth the price seeing how I have loads of regular bolts in my service truck but I finally decided to spend the 30 bucks on it and be done with it. I hope that this is solid enough for the 20hp merc. The original transom was kinda scary lookin' and now I have a brand new motor I figure I better beef it up so I don't have ti fish it out of the river. I was kind of nervous about removing the brace that is riveted to the floor but I bought some 5200 sealant and plan to use my last bit of green stick epoxy stuff I got from cabelas to seal her back off. I will post picks when complete next weekend, For now I have to go back out of town and make the bacon.