DIY boat motor hydraulic lift repair

In detail: do-it-yourself repair of a boat motor hydraulic lift from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.

The outboard motor lift is designed for your convenience and comfort. In order not to raise the outboard motor yourself and not damage it, of course you need to buy a lift, experienced fishermen have already appreciated all the advantages of this technique, some of them are ready to make one for themselves from improvised means.

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As a rule, boat engines with a short sternwood are not equipped with a lift or tilt control system. New devices called Trim / Tab and Motor Lift serve precisely to ensure that the owner of the outboard motor does not strain his back when raising his outboard motor. An important advantage of these high-tech products is that they can be used to smoothly adjust the angle of inclination of the motor in relation to the transom. As a result, shallow water areas will become more accessible for the owner of the vessel, mooring in an unfamiliar place will become much more convenient, the speed of movement will increase and the track fuel consumption will decrease.

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Trim / Tab and Motor Lift are bolted to the boat transom, and then the outboard is attached to them. The control of these systems is electric or hydraulic with an electric pump. Powered by an on-board network of 12 volts. As a rule, such devices are designed to work with engines with a power of 25-50 hp. However, there are also models for outboard motors from 5 hp. The weight of such a device is about 10 kg. The lift is controlled by a small panel with two buttons, which can be installed permanently next to the devices or mobile in any convenient place on the ship. Devices for adjusting the height of the engine position, which in some cases are also used to adapt outboard motors with a long deadwood to boats with a short transom.

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Auxiliary outboard motor control devices, which, with the growing popularity of trolling fishing, have gained well-deserved popularity among professional anglers.
A series of new devices from US companies, installed between the transom and the engine, allows the height control of virtually any outboard motor. Thus, these new developments give the boat owner the ability to achieve an efficient engine position when traveling at high speed depending on the boat load, towing a skier or fishing in shallow water.

For outboard motors from 15 to 55 hp.

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Your motor does not have a hydraulic lift, and you are tired of running to the stern every time and lifting the motor out of the water when you dock, so as not to damage the gearbox or propeller in shallow water? while leaving the boat virtually uncontrolled? Raise 40 HP motor. from the water is still not so easy, especially if someone is sitting behind?

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You can, of course, replace your outboard motor with a more modern and expensive one, with a hydraulic lift, but as a rule, this entails a lot of problems: this is not a small waste of money to buy a new motor and a whole story with the removal / registration of the motor in the State Inspection Service, but after all, the old motor still needs to be sold, and this is again time and again a loss in money.

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It is suitable for the installation of any outboard motor from 15 to 55 hp and solves all your tasks at once. All you need to do is place it between the boat transom and the outboard motor. All operations will take you a maximum of several hours with self-installation.

As a result:

  • the ability to control the rise of the motor from the water without getting up from the driver's seat.
  • Improve boat dynamics, safety and controllability with on-the-go trim level adjustments
  • save a lot of time and effort on solving your problem.
  • you do not have to spend a lot of money to sell an old motor and buy a new one.

This electric lift is produced by the well-known company for the production of outboard motors SEA-PRO, which has been working in the Russian market for a very long time and has managed to prove itself quite well. The warranty for this electric lift is 1 year.

It can be added that this electric lift is an exact copy of the American Panthera 55 lift and is its full counterpart to the last screw. The principle of operation of the electric lift is extremely simple: it is a design in the form of a worm gear that is not demanding on maintenance and is quite reliable with proper care and periodic injection of the mechanism. Hydraulic elements are not used in the device.