handyandy
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So my boat was short shaft 16" transom, and it started with a 40 prop tiller I ran for few years. Then added a jack plate which helped with shallow water capabilities, but I really wanted a jet. Then almost two years ago I swapped to a 1993 60hp tiller short shaft prop mercury with intentions of making it jet. I hunted down a jet lower for it that I got second hand for a good price. Swapped out the long shaft drive shaft of the jet lower I got for a short one mounted it up on the engine and have been running it with the mecury made 60/40 jet for a while now. It wasn't bad it's a good running engine pushed the boat well hasn't really given me any troubles.
But when I first swapped the mercury I wanted a omc three cylinder. But at the time when I first wanted to swap to a jet I couldn't find any omc 56ci triples with a tiller. Or any non tillers cheap to convert to tiller. I came across the merc for a pretty good price and got the jet drive for it pretty cheap. But back around thanksgiving I found a ok deal on a really clean 1994 omc 70hp tiller with a jet already. I ended up buying it and left the mercury on through the waterfowl season as I didn't want the boat decommissioned for the swap during waterfowl season. So I started the swap about three weeks ago. It was a little more involved than just unbolting and swapping engines as the evinrude is a long shaft, so I had to weld up a extension for my transom. My trailer bunks had also seen better days so I figured I'd redo those as well while I was at it when I had the engine off.
But when I first swapped the mercury I wanted a omc three cylinder. But at the time when I first wanted to swap to a jet I couldn't find any omc 56ci triples with a tiller. Or any non tillers cheap to convert to tiller. I came across the merc for a pretty good price and got the jet drive for it pretty cheap. But back around thanksgiving I found a ok deal on a really clean 1994 omc 70hp tiller with a jet already. I ended up buying it and left the mercury on through the waterfowl season as I didn't want the boat decommissioned for the swap during waterfowl season. So I started the swap about three weeks ago. It was a little more involved than just unbolting and swapping engines as the evinrude is a long shaft, so I had to weld up a extension for my transom. My trailer bunks had also seen better days so I figured I'd redo those as well while I was at it when I had the engine off.