60Hp Mercury Outboard Big Tiller UPGRADE: tiny boat, big motor. #fallonmarine

this video has chapters so if you want to skip right just the insulation or you want to see how it performs on the water if you just want to see the motor itself you just click on the hyperlinks in the description area or the comment section below but actually this was a much more complicated process than even i gave it credit for and so the video is a fairly extensive pre-installation what i had to do what i had to do with the transom what jack plate i had to get to the installation and then post installation some of the things i had to do before i got out in the water and then also obviously the end result of us on the water with fish catches it's all here check it all out [Music] all right so long story short this is my 25 horse merc i'm replacing it with a 60 horse merc adam ryan is here collaborating with me at this time he's going to help me film this whole thing this is a little mini series of how i prep my boat to take a motor that big initially it was only strong enough for a portable outboard we stuck a brand new aluminum transom one with our diy kits from our website tbnation.net and then we also got a jack plate after we refasten the entire transom to the back of the boat and install the jack plate we are now ready for the motor upgrade [Music] all right so it's off motor the boat is it's clean and it's going to get right now for the actual prep and then obviously it's all torn back and we'll be fixing that but first things first get a motor on it all right so here it is we got the transmitter we got the jack plate in it's got an interface that's made to fit our boat oh we got to take this off baby a little dusty since we left it out here but hey there she is ladies and gents do they come with propellers i mean i mean you would think it would i don't know i just [Music] to the thing that one that 220 looked pretty tough so that was 60. hey a little bit of doubt a little bit of credit i bet you i could let that motor i bet you i can [Music] [Music] so here we are finally the motor looks great it still looks as is it's been sitting here for months now and it's a little bit more than i thought to get it actually out of the box the box is hiding a metal frame that the motor is attached to so we have to kind of unbolt it and then once we have that we can take this off and check out the motor so we got this because there's more horsepower and only like 10 more pounds in the 50s yeah yeah exactly well and in reality the the 60 to a 50 is the same platform so in in regards to for a boat rated for a 50 and is is able to handle the weight of the 50. the 60 technically just kind of makes it to where you have a little bit more power but you don't necessarily have to go um you know wide open throttle in order to get the full 50 horsepower out there so the main reason is because it's cool and you got a big tiller 60. the reason we did it it's this true story okay so it's just got a good one [Applause] okay [Music] all right so the motor's finally out of the box but before we stick it to the jack plate there are some things we can do while it's on the hoist that are easier to do just when it's free floating so we will go ahead and prep those things right now the atlas micro jack i got really fits the boat well because it's not super high profile but it fits the interface of these bigger motors so we have a lot more holes on the actual motor so there's some debate about what's part of the hull we should put on the jack plate we decided to put it on the very top and the bottom to make it more of a clean interface so that the jack plate has the most leverage and if it ever needs to be adjusted well then we'll have to go through this again but there's no way we'll actually know until we put this thing on the water and check its performance and then we can go from there as far as adjustments i'd also like to mention because i forgot to mention in the last video that foul marine actually helped me find this jack plate because we couldn't find one before that so they found one i don't know where they found it but that's how we got this fast as you get the bolts put on you just lower the jack or if you have some really strong friends you could just have them hold it there while you put the bolt through either way um we eventually get it done and we get it on the interface and then we're on to some of the more intricate parts like installing the tiller and making sure everything works electronically before we start the motor for the first time we're just gonna put it backwards and just lower the so we could get it in there no completely no i got dude i got two inch bolts all right the motor did come with uh its own hardware but it was its own hardware to kind of mount it directly to a very big thick transom not a jack plate so we had to use uh some of the stuff thankfully karina had some hardware on hand that were able to use to mount the motor to and from where we had to run to the hardware store again [Music] so once we get all the hardware situated we go ahead and we detach the hoist the motor will hang on the transmitter it has overhanging lips they're not the most stable thing you would actu you would still need some sort of support i guess you can go get a cheap voice from harbor freight and you can get it done that way if you're going to install one of these yourself have some again some really strong friends but uh installing on a jackpot you definitely need friends or a hoist because there's nowhere for the motor to grip to while you mount it to it weight is off the beautiful doesn't look as big as what i thought it was going to be on the back of your boat honestly like the boat's rated for a good people it almost fits perfect it does i mean honestly [Music] now we're gonna go ahead and install the big tiller which we have to take off the initial stock plate there that was mounted to the frame inside the box and then it's just a plate i know the motor looks completely solid from the outside when the cows on it but down in there there's two bolts that hold this plate that is the interface around the grommets right there that big plastic grommet you see right there in the circular area right there next to my chest that is where all the cables run through and where the steering and throttle linkage runs through and we're gonna go ahead and connect that next one so we get this out this is the main harness that actually talks to your motor tells it what to do start stop you know i think these are the action i don't know what these are for we're about to consult guilds out there and these are these are the actual steering these are the throttle and shift cables on both sides of it so the ship fraud coming up we're in neutral halfway in between like the forward is forward reverses there are these little clips attached into the throttle and shifting linkage you need to remove them and then reinstall them once the cables are on and you can see so they're in there that's how they're you know coming to the shifting language right this one's for the throttle that's the throttle yep and you pull the one to the shifting yep so we just thought we were just talking about the shifting so that was right there yep so it's in neutral right now if someone needed to you could technically shift this manually so that's going into forward and then going backwards going to go under throttle technically is always going to be at return position so the thing that we'll be checking when we're going for it is that it's actually going through its full you know throttle demand so it's going through its full sweep of throttle because technically this doesn't go anywhere other than it moves from this returned position all the way to forward that's full throttle you're the you're the lucky person that's getting me to help rather losing that bolt huh no no you don't want to do that all right there we go the new big tillers that fit on the latest generation mercuries are pretty awesome they're long enough to where you can actually stand until without having to use like a trolling motor extension they have the shifting linkage right next to the throttle they have troll assist and they also have a position to where you can shift the entire swing arm over to where you can sit in any position you want on the boats and still be able to steer the motor straight left and right once it's on it you just have to complete three major components it's not terribly hard say like you're bringing up a console motor with gauges and all kinds of other complicated stuff it's just two spots it's the throttle linkage and the shifting linkage just making sure you put those in and you put little the little linkage stays in their place to where they keep the linkage from bouncing around inside the cowl you put the pins back in it is pretty simple the only plug you need to put in for any sort of power or anything is the one harness plug and once you have that in there the karina wouldn't attach that with some zip ties to make sure it kind of stays secure inside the cowl the cables fit a little tight through that grommet interface uh from the tiller to the engine but it was fine we kind of got it worked around and tweaked and you put that plate back on with those screws make sure you have a skinny enough ratchet extension to do it but once that's done it's more or less ready to go the motor comes ready out of the box to start it's already filled with oil gear lube you name it all it needs now is some power from a battery if you start it up that's a huge upgrade he's got the all welded aluminum transom the mini jack plate and then the new 60 horsepower mercury motor whole new back in upgrade looks freaking awesome all right putting on the earmuffs here we got the gas tank in here oh that's it right there [Music] [Music] is it okay to run the ethanol freak it was it was something like 92 92 octane is that fine yeah yeah okay it says to not do that but it's just it's the only the only ethanol free gas i can find is a 92 octane yeah don't do it oh yeah [Applause] beautiful [Music] your yellow terminator cap plug that into the open port now flip it over and then you've got to take this cap off and install the yellow terminator cap for your smart what what do they call a terminator uh there's terminator resistors in there it basically resists and puts enough resistance in the system for the smart craft sensors to work so without that i guess jumbled information that you see no now i can read the rpms for my phone because it goes i get asked about gauges and gauges gauges for this and those are going away yeah like in these smart lithium batteries i have all the gauges around the phone yeah yeah and this new spot lock thing i have it's in the phone yeah it's all right well i'm gonna go to power drive we got that [Music] it fits right in there huh i feel like that was too easy yeah that was like something's going to go wrong why because when is that amazing that's the thing is when when it comes to what we do we make it extremely easy everybody wants to over complicate things it's easy even i did that first trick super huge thanks to gil karina and josh over here at family marine for continuously helping me through all my outboard stuff from the minute i bought a four-stroke mercury and all the problems that i had after that being able to test motors being able to give you guys content with their help their very specific interest in small portable outboards in the tiny boat community something i don't get from anybody else in town and there are several mercury shops but trying to work with them or get them to even sell me a motor was always a struggle and fel marine sells motors to the tiny boat nation community all over the country they ship portable outboards i think fairly regularly and so it's really nice to kind of get this bigger non-portable outboard show what it's like to install one of them because we all know what it's like to install smaller motors and it really wasn't that bad very very doable and now it is time for us to go finish up this boat and go fish [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and there it is i have over twice the horsepower for less than 100 pounds more added weight on the boat seems like a fair trade to me i don't know what you guys think but i did love this motor i still am going to keep it i got some questions am i going to sell it probably not given how hard it is to get outwards now the wait time and the expense and plus this motor is still fairly new it's only got 100 or so hours i'm just gonna find i have a few places in town where i can kind of stow and get out of the way and get out of my garage and uh that's what i'm gonna do for the moment but it's definitely gonna go back on another boat somewhere so me and adam here we're gonna go and sim things up and get parts of the back of the boat put back together now that we have the motor on and we're gonna go out and fish all right we're gonna go ahead and take out these batteries and put them in my boat for now just for now i'll put them back in here just go ahead pull it up i can hold it like that i think it's nothing pinky insane i mean what's really insane is the battery performance why we're pulling it out of here begrudgingly because really i need that battery set up in here is because we need optimal performance out of our fish finders so we can go slay all right quickly i just want to talk about all these batteries we got we got like a serious battery issue going on so we have these i think they're deca deca marine rb marine batteries the intimidator line that is about the size of a group 24. so we're running that we also have a little u1 battery which is like the go-to little kayak battery a little 25 pound kayak battery everybody used to get before the lithiums came out and they were like half the weight but this right now is about 25 ish 24 pounds or something like that still pretty light able to take a beating lasts pretty long the good thing about it is it is uh outboard alternator approved so the lithium's not outboard alternator improved in fact a lot of them burn out the alternators you have to have a specific alternator or you have to have a resistor or a limiter your starter battery you have to have like something that stops the agm battery from cranking too hard like or i'm sorry the lithium battery from because the amount of volts of lithium battery can push out will actually burn out the alternator something weird something weird about that you have to have like other things in place we're gonna use a lithium cranky battery but i just have this agmu one we're going to use solely as a crank again a cranky battery for the first motor startup we'll be using the two deca's again about the size of a group 24 but way stronger a little bit more powerful but mainly the strength the the amount of the beating they'll be able to take is really good for constant power to the trolling motor and then we will have my personal favorite this thing which is super light this is comically light that is a 12 volt from underground power these are on our website and i love this battery i do i have i got to test their their their duplex battery where they had the 12 and a 24 volt split that was pretty cool that was just the test battery the initial outcome is we end up getting two super batteries 24 volt pack in a 12 volt pack so we're gonna stick a 12 volt pack in here to run all of our electronics i did run uh the uhd carbon echo map on this and it was the clearest most precise readout i'd ever seen at any fish finder i was blown away and because i had run these on obviously if you want to heat one of these i've been running a single lead acid just a group 31 to try and run those they just don't do the job for uhd fish finders just so you know well actually we're just going all agm plus the one lithium this will be the first time where i'm running in my boat where we have no lead acid batteries so i'll just keep this one as a spare something it'll just be around but it is what it is yeah not even close no that that's just now 30. oh there that's a 50 no that's 30. you twerking at 30 yeah i felt it clicked all right yeah so go to the next one bottom one okay okay at least you knew six he's not in the bottom of the lake right because it was probably gonna go there why do you think they make things that fit what why do you think they make wrenches that i just i just land my personal strength i use my strong hand and the channel locks the work it didn't work very good so the in torque specs on the boats i do are 50 foot pounds so i'll creep my way up there just to see how the transom is gonna handle that much uh pork yeah it's all built a little different and this piece of aluminum may be different to that piece so you go in there jumping up into 50 up and ranking once it starts collapsing itself just yeah that's it so you put it at 30. yeah i start with 30. okay did it go to 50 i haven't gotten 50 yet no has this motor ran yes it ran for like one minute one minute we're gonna go run it tonight and then you just gave him full price for the motor huh that's what you did you ran it for one minute you're like huh let's take one away when when you bought this it's a brand new motor it's brand new it's got like no hours on it well you're looking at me though who said that i pulled it out of the crates i have it on video it's a brand new freaking merc we installed the tiller handle right on it it all came in a box in in like plastic it came in the damn mercury grid i got it i got it on video dude all right i believe you i don't do small motors i personally think there's no such thing as a big that whole transom things of course boats can do whatever once you get it on plane it doesn't matter how much the weather weighs you just gotta go [Music] [Applause] all right so here we are thing starts up immediately sounds perfect runs perfect it's i mean right now we're just idling around it's a surreal moment to have this motor on here pretty epic had to go through some things to get it on but here it is and here's adam we're ready to fish it took us like three days to do all this took us far too long to replace the transom and do all this and install this and finally get it over to fallon and get the motor mounted but after that you know it's ready to go we're not supposed to bring it past you know a little bit higher between 50 and 70 throttle so that's where we're going to keep it we're going to see where it takes us on that we have a 13 pitch four blade prop on um really immediately it gets on plane immediately especially with the power tilt which is quite invaluable already at 50 throttle we are going much faster than we were ever going with my 25 for so my 25 horse it would get me to 21 22 miles an hour with a nine pitch prop by myself really we were doing 15 or 16 miles an hour at best with two individuals plus uh you know full loaded down gear and that's without a live well but this thing will play in a whale i'm most sure of it after uh we did this i took my family out and i towed both my kids on a tube with my wife and i inside the boat it did fine you could barely tell there was any real lag it went just as fast at a 60 70 throttle as it did with not towing a tube the boat handles it really well you could definitely tell that this bigger deep v aluminum alaskan style hole was made for at least a 50 horse probably maybe more but this is this is good i mean i i don't really plan on going much faster it already pushes you 31 32 at 70 throttle that's pretty fast in this boat it feels like you're flying but what is the gas mileage what does it get off a 6 gallon tank because really that's all that can fit in my boat that's what i built the boat for i never plan on running a motor this big on the boat until obviously i had to and so in terms of comparison to what i was getting with the 25 it's actually about the same and possibly because i was having a max out throttle on my 25 whenever i was using it but i was still getting about four times the gas mileage that i was getting out of a 25 horsepower two-stroke so i i didn't complain um and i mean after doing about the same trips my routine trips to my routine spots back and forth you know i would check the fuel gauge and it's about the same depletion when i when i poured in and i come back in it's about the same depletion and i'm guessing it's because i only have to run the throttle at 50 to 60 right now and so i'm using half the throttle even though it's a bigger motor and getting the like way better results way faster more efficient results safer results and i'm getting to where i need to get faster getting on the fish faster meeting timelines time gap you know stuff that where i know we need to be at certain times and then you know being able to put people on fish myself on fish i mean it's up to them to catch it but you know getting there and not struggling not putting around struggling to get on plane i'm over all that stuff this lake is very moody it'll take a lot out of you if you can't get where you need to get to at a decent speed and so now finally we have no problems with that it's worth everything all right guys there was absolutely worth it 100 wouldn't change anything about it if anything i would have done it sooner but there was from start to finish i hope this answers some tips and tricks if you find a used motor that big things you would have to do to reinstall it on your boat or if you got a new motor hopefully got a good shot definitely the shot matters always know that when you buy a motor the next thing coming up is the entire tennessee trip with the tin can crew where we built another boat together and that's all coming up next week stay tuned for that it's pretty epic [Music]

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Keywords: Custom Boats, DIY, DIY Culture, Draxx Media, Fallon marine, Michael Lopez, TBNation, Underground Power lithium batteries, aluminum boat, atlas jack plate installation, bass boat, bass fishing, evinrude, fishing boat, mercury 60hp 4 stroke, mercury marine, mercury outboard, mercury outboard motors, michael lopez, outboard motor, send it jon boats, small boat, thatboatguy, tin can crew, tiny boat nation, transom repair, woodworking, yamaha outboard

Id: aQjxSTcC1Ps

Length: 25min 40sec (1540 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 11 2021