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Misc Items

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How to find out your motors leg length?

What is 'Trim & Tilt'?

Y Forks or motor holder bracket?

Year of your motor?

There are a couple of ways of working out the leg length of your motor:

View the "ID badge"number of the motor which is usually located on the mounting bracket or just under the head of the motor near the top of the leg. Make a note of this information and write in on the box provided on the order form.

Yamaha	This motor has a long leg other may say 'S' or 'X'
Mercury/ Mariner	2003 is the year, 60 is the size in HP the ELPTO tells us everything we need to know about that motor
Johnson/Evinrude	Please provide the model number circled & the serial if you can.
Tohatsu	Please provide the model number and serial number if possible as outlined below.
Honda	Please provide the model number and serial number if possible as outlined below.
Suzuki	Please provide the model number and serial number if possible & measure as outlined below.

2. The other easier way is to simply measure the motor from the very top to the very bottom (include the fin or skeg) side on is usually the best. All measurements should be in centimeters please.

Trim and Tilt is a term used for if your motor has electric lifting or not! Can you push a button either on the motor or on the throttle or near there to make your motor go up and down (or both)?

If so, you have trim and tilt, if not you only have manual trim and tilt and we will need to leave a hole in the cover for you to get your hand in to pull the motor up.

What are we talking about? Simply put, there is an "after market" bracket that can be fitted that comes from your trailer up to above your cavation plate that looks like a 'Y'. The motor can rest in this and it is designed to take the strain off the motor when traveling on bouncy roads. Our covers do not interfere with these as long as the' Y part is padded with a little rubber of foam to protect our zip from being crunshed in bottom of the 'Y'.

What year is my motor?? Most outboard motors have the year etc printed on the ID badge, unfortunately 40% of the brands available don't which does creates a problem for us. People don't realise that we have around 660 different motor patterns going back with some of them to the 1970's. How can we find out how old your motor is? Please include the Serial and model number and we can usually tell from this information. If you are unsure please send us a digital photo from your phone camera or normal digital camera to james@outboardcovers.co.uk with a note mentioning your order. I am happy to call you back and try and work out over the phone what motor year you have, normally we can do this in about 2 minutes.