How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

[deltatango]

NOTE: This post is designed for humor and is not intended to a how to.

This is my first post on the forum, and my second boat restoration. My first resto was of my 97 Exciter which the previous owner had sunk at the dock due to a bad bilge pump. Now im tearing into my Renken, turns out someone built the boat out of potting soil and wrapped it in fiberglass, or at least thats what i found when I tore into it. First things first I pulled the motor. I'm not as blessed as some of the guys on this forum with awesome shops with hoists on the celing. I do have a very accomodating dad and a pickup truck so here we go.

• tie the motor firmly to a engine hoist mounted on the truck bed.
• remove all the hoses, pipes, wires, harness, and bolts holding the motor to the boat.
• if the hoist is not tied to the truck, the back of the hoist may flip out of the truck bed. Eventually the motor may fall pulling the hoist with it. So secure the hoist to the truck and take a break.

• Back up the truck to a stack of tires
• Lower the motor on the tires.

• Tie the motor to the trees to secure it.

• Cover the motor with tarpaulin to protect it from the elements.

• Park the boat without motor next to the motor, so no one will see the motor stored.

Go get lunch at Captain D's with your awesome father and talk about dreams of the next bigger boat

Disclaimer: No I'm not an idiot, I am actually doing my Masters thesis on Carbon Composite Structural Health Monitoring. I just think that sometimes people get so wrapped up in the technical aspects of boating, ply vs dimension, drops vs pumps, biax vs roving.....they forget that boating supposed to be fun and bring the family together!
PS its not the long term storage solution.

 

[86RajunCajun]

Re: How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

Awsome first post man.


i loled...really i did!

welcome to Iboats!

 

[89nissanbassboat]

Re: How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

Some good logical humor!...funny

Oh!...very nice looking boat you have their...I hope you picked it up for a song knowing its condition.

 

[McGR]

Re: How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

Are you sure you aren't doing your master's thesis on Hillbilly Engineering?

 

[ezmobee]

Re: How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

LOL at the potting soil line

 

[Expidia]

Re: How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

I would have taken the cowling off first, so as not to damage or scratch it. Most cowlings are super expensive to replace. Once the cowling is off at least on my merc there are loops on top of the o/b to attach a hoist chain to. I used those loops to support and raise my outboard up when I was moving the mount up 1 hole.

I'm guessing your o/b a 2 stroke and if it is it's fine in that position. But the in case of a 4 stroke owner reading this post . . . a 4 stroke has to be laid on it's side (it's usually marked which side to face up) or upright on the skeg and the foot on the bottom of the cowling or the oil in the pan will spill all over the place and if it spilled out and you didn't check the level after re-mounting it, you could be running it without oil.

Last time I brought my 9.9 Merc 4 stroke to the dealer for a recall update when the mechanic put it in my trunk he placed it facing up on the wrong side. Result . . . oil all over my trunk when I opened trunk at home

One would think a dealer's long time mechanic would know better . . . but you'd be wrong! My fault for trusting him to have limited intelligence about 4 strokes.

Welcome to iboats

 

[deltatango]

Re: How to remove and store an outboard motor....maybe

thanks for the welcome!

Expedia, thanks for adding the info on the 4 cycle vs 2 cycle, sometimes i forget how people like to apply what they see on a forum without verifying it first. I'd hate to be the death of someones 4 stroke.

As for the condition of the boat, I got three years out of it before i had to put her under the knife. She was my first boat back in '06, and i learned my lessons the hard way. The trailer fell apart on the way home, followed by the lower unit locking up a year after, and followed by this. Along the way I learned a ton through forums like these, shop manuals, and talking to good folks like ya'll. Somewhere along the way I still managed to pick up an extreme boating addiction...leading to the purchase of the sunken Exciter (I like fixing broken things more than buying working ones) It took me all of last summer to get her going but now both 1100 Yamahas are running great and pumping hard. My first experience of 57 MPH on the water was nothing short of life changing...after grad school, bring on the Scarab 38 KV.