transom is too thick to mount my kicker

krisnowicki

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I have tons of room but it is too thick. I really didnt want to add a bracket. Any Ideas ?
 

krisnowicki

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

I have a seapro 22 WAC working on pics of the transom now.
 

foodfisher

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

How much more room do you need? I gained1/8" by filing the high spots off the inside of my brackets.
 

krisnowicki

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

The transom is about 3/4 of an inch to thick for the outboard to mount on it. I have a two pics, one is the transom from the back the other is a view of it looking down, It is raining so I cant take to many right now
 

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ajgraz

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

You could use a bracket :p

Seriously, why not a bracket? Do I see some tabs down there? How are you going to avoid those without the extension of a bracket anyway?
 

krisnowicki

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

well I just measured it . OB has 2 and half inches of room, and the transom is exaclty three inches thick. I would fabricate something out of wood but who knows ... guess a bracket is in my future
 

krisnowicki

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

I didnt want to use a bracket because of how flimsy they are, I wanted something permenant...
 

Lion hunter

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

I'm with aj, wondering how your gonna miss those tabs. When I install my kicker I had to have it at least 2' apart from the motors center line to get most of the turn radius from the motors. Kickers power head usually sit forward of the turning point enough that they hill hit the stern when turning starboard. And although the kickers turning point on mine was only an inch or so forward of the main motors turning point it was enough that the turn radius's were off by quite a bit. That is unless you planned on locking the kicker and trying to use the main as a rudder. I tried that for one trip.
 

krisnowicki

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Re: transom is too thick to mount my kicker

It is on now and on a bracket, oh well I have to R and R for trailering.
 
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