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AADIVER
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Initially Posted - 06/11/2008 :  14:42:09  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
To make it easier for my pretty Penny 1st Mate to lower the engine, she simply pulls on a line connected to the tilt lever, up through a bolt hole in the catbird seat, tied to a piece of PVC and eases the engine down with the Garhauer tilt aid.



Here's a pic of the line attached to the lever and the bungee connection. Without the bungee you'd have to pull the line for both lowering the engine and raising it too:
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 06/11/2008 :  14:53:00  Show Profile
Frank, nice mod. I would like to do something like it. To get to the Honda lever I really have to reach down and under. On the Honda you push the lever one way to lower and the other way to raise the outboard. Same on the Tohatsu?

We have that same engine tilter from Garhauer. It is a great device!
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 06/11/2008 :  15:39:21  Show Profile
Frank, Great Mod! I assume the other end is just tied off on the lever?
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 06/11/2008 :  16:08:40  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Hah, I like it, we need to do something very similar for ours, thanks for the idea!
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AADIVER
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Response Posted - 06/11/2008 :  18:30:02  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
Randy, I don't have to manually use the tilt lever to raise the motor. Using an Arlyn bungee mod, I just grab the cowling and pull the engine up.
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piseas
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Response Posted - 06/11/2008 :  21:51:31  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Frank, what were you in your other life, an engineer. Very nice job. You should sell idea to Tohatsu.
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AADIVER
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Response Posted - 06/13/2008 :  22:38:02  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
I think the line from the catbird seat down to the tilt lever would work on any o/b.
An "engineer" I definitely ain't; just a skipper always looking for an easier, softer way to do things for both me and my crew.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 06/13/2008 :  23:26:43  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Frank,
Can you elaborate on the bungee mod you got from Arlyn?

How did you attach the line to the latch? I've been looking for something similar to a three holed figure eight if that makes any sense, something that looks like this: OOO so you can fix the center hole over the latch, attach the pulling line to one of the holes, and a bungee to the other to keep the latch under tension. Is that what you did?
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AADIVER
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Response Posted - 06/14/2008 :  14:21:20  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
Check the pic I just added to my initial post. And check out Arlyn's mods for the bungee setup. With the bungee connected, I don't have to pull the line to raise the engine; just grab the cowling and pull up till it clicks.
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