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As the reed main replacements near completion, I decided to make a new tower housing casting. The Jones tower sets the motor back about 3 inches. This does two things, first it moves the entire unit behind the steering pivot point which eliminates any servo assist to the steering, and second the arc path of the prop is increased to the point that the steering radius is severely limited. The unit has to be kept deep in the water to clear the bottom so as not to notch out the bottom of the boat. The increased length of the twin pinion compounds the problem. I can, with this new housing and some mods to the unit, move the pivot to within 5/16 of an inch of the standard position.
In the first picture you can see where some prop work had been done on the bottom sometime in the past.
I will add to the forward end of the adapter plate casting pattern, an upper pivot boss and recast.
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