It¹s time to ask my big question for this winter. I have come to really hate
my Atomic 4. Every year I get it so that it appears it will be fine for the
season, and every year something makes it unreliable (usually it has been
fuel/carburetion, but there have been other issues). Does anyone have advice
on what to do to replace the Atomic 4 with an outboard installation?
There are a lot of related questions:
(1) It seems to make sense to remove the A-4, in view of the added weight
that will be carried all the way aft in the form of an outboard. Pulling the
A-4 engine is straighforward, but what do you do with the holes in the hull?
There is the stuffing box hole, but also, the engine water intake
through-hull and the exhaust through-hull (through-transom). I would think
that the fair thing to do for any later owner would be to safely close up
these holes, but also make it possible to restore them if the owner wanted
to reinstall an inboard.
(2) What model of outboard is a good one? I have looked at the Suzuki 9.9
only because it is one of the few that still offers a deeper-leg version.
(3) I assume that the bracket just mentioned by Dave Techlin would be a good
choicethe largest Garelick. I do not have a cutout in my transom like some
of the others, so will the transom be strong enough to just take the
bracket?
(4) What about theft security for the outboard during the season?
(5) My times that I have had outboards never seemed to get me to where the
battery would charge. I never solved the question of whether the alternator
was working properly, or sufficent to charge a large deep-cycle battery. Is
a modern 9.9 alternator going to be sufficient to charge a bank of two
batteries?
(6) What¹s the favored way to make the installation of controls vis-à-vis
remote throttle, electric start, etc.? Mine is a tiller model with the
original rudder.
(7) The outboard could not draw from the big internal aluminum fuel tank,
could it? So does it make sense to remove that?
Thanks for any help y¹all can give!
--Dave Shugarts
C-27 #4866 Cahoots (1981)
SR, A4, Tiller, Dinette
Newtown (Housatonic River), CT
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Website: http://www.BoatDiddly.com
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