The Cape Dory Board

Jim, Thanks for sharing your experience with the reduced thickness of the engine mount base. I hope to get my hands on a Bushings mount later this week so that I can determine have much material would need to be removed and whether, or not, this will be an option. If reducing the thickness to allow ...

Tim, Thanks for the idea. As the hole for the "post" part of the casting would have to be 2-3/4 inches diameter, the clamping bracket would need to be at least 3-1/2 inches wide (to have 3/8 inch left in the bracket both sides of the hole). The current mounting is 1-11/16 inches (50mm). So...

Bill, thanks for the reply. Your first picture is the type of engine mount that I have. The problem is that the advertised minimum clearance is 3-5/8 inches (92mm) and I need to go down to 2-1/2 inches. To get around this problem the engine was installed without the adjusting nut that goes under the...

I have just replaced the shaft and cutless bearing on my CD25D. I now need to align the shaft. But the Yanmar engine mounts are missing the adjustment nut! These nuts were presumably left off to allow the engine to sit lower. If I were to install adjusting nuts the engine would be too high. I have i...