Re: kicker motor brackets and transom stress

[Anonymous]

Not sure what your last setup looked like but the new one would scare me. I don’t know what the motor weighs but that weight slamming down with a 20" or so moment arm is going to put one heck of a force on those top 2 thru bolts. I don’t know whether tilted up or down would make much difference although the CG might be a little closer to the transom tilted up. Probably not enough to make much of a difference. I’m guessing you investigated it and there’s some reason you can’t clamp it directly to the transom.