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<blockquote data-quote="Colorado1135" data-source="post: 430548" data-attributes="member: 18449"><p>I did a 14' lund project 2 years ago and have loved it, and been slaying the walleyes this past year. I was running a 9.8 merc on it and it worked ok, but was sluggish. last fall I sold the motor a a friends nephew who needed it badly while in college. this winter I bought a long shaft merc 20 horse with electric start. downside is it's a long shaft. no problem, I have a mini-jacker I got on a trade a while back. </p><p></p><p>the problem is when I hold the plate up it doesn't seem to go high enough, and when I look at the hole positions I see the plate extends below the spashwell on my 14' lund and would only be bolted to the aluminum hull with no wood behind it. I looked at raising the transom, but quickly saw that would be a PITA.</p><p>I want to mount the jack plate and just run the 20 merc, but I can't find any do's and don'ts for mounting them. </p><p>is there a better plate to use? should I build one? do I reinforce the transom under the splashwell? where do I start? I don't want to mess anything up so I thought I'd ask you guys who have done it.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://s307.photobucket.com/user/colorado1135/media/KIMG00172_zps7fmmygth.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn313/colorado1135/KIMG00172_zps7fmmygth.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Colorado1135, post: 430548, member: 18449"] I did a 14' lund project 2 years ago and have loved it, and been slaying the walleyes this past year. I was running a 9.8 merc on it and it worked ok, but was sluggish. last fall I sold the motor a a friends nephew who needed it badly while in college. this winter I bought a long shaft merc 20 horse with electric start. downside is it's a long shaft. no problem, I have a mini-jacker I got on a trade a while back. the problem is when I hold the plate up it doesn't seem to go high enough, and when I look at the hole positions I see the plate extends below the spashwell on my 14' lund and would only be bolted to the aluminum hull with no wood behind it. I looked at raising the transom, but quickly saw that would be a PITA. I want to mount the jack plate and just run the 20 merc, but I can't find any do's and don'ts for mounting them. is there a better plate to use? should I build one? do I reinforce the transom under the splashwell? where do I start? I don't want to mess anything up so I thought I'd ask you guys who have done it. [url=https://s307.photobucket.com/user/colorado1135/media/KIMG00172_zps7fmmygth.jpg.html][img]https://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn313/colorado1135/KIMG00172_zps7fmmygth.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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