Misc Items

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Each outboard manufacturer has the same standard for measuring the leg size of a motor. This is done by measuring the boats transoms and then the manufacturer will order the correct leg size (or length) for your boat. The standard units of measure for an outboard are listed below, DONT get confused when some boaties will say it's a standard leg. This could mean it's a standard long or standard XL......

To make it easy Outboard Covers have a couple of ways which make it easier for ALL to ensure we get the leg length correct and they are listed below. You can provide the MODEL number as outlined below or give us the overall height of the outboard so we can compare your measurement with the patterns and lengths we have ensuring the correct height = the correct leg length.

DONT MEASURE THE LEG ONLY OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE MOTOR, WE NEED THE TOTAL HEIGHT FROM THE SKEG TO THE TOP

There are other legs in the market place such as Big Foots & Pro Kickers for the Mercury/Mariner range and High Thrust for the Yamaha range. You should know if you have one of these motors? How this is done is manufacturers as an example Yamaha 60hp high thrust will have the same motor only the leg will vary and how this varies is the gear box (bottom half of outboard) and prop will come of a 80hp gear box and lower leg section. Hence this makes the leg bottom bigger and we need to know this. These legs also come in the standard format listed above. So as an example you can have a 20" High Thrust leg on the motor mentioned or a 25" high thrust.

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

1. 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 (20") because of the L if it had a X it would an XL (25") or Yamaha only do Hight Thrust legs in Four strokes so based on the diagram above the code would then read FT 350 A ETOX = F= 4stk, T= High Thrust, 350= HP, A=Gen E=Electric, T= Power trim n tilt. O = Oil Inj and X )
Mercury/ Mariner	The ELPTO tells us that it is a Long (20") so if you have a 60EXPTO it's a XL or 25"
Johnson/Evinrude	Please provide the model number circled NOT the serial. Evinrude will start with an E then the horsepower and letters. Johnson as above with a J then the horsepower & the letters J115PXSRC
Tohatsu	Please provide measurement as outlined below.
Honda	Please provide measurement as outlined below.
Suzuki	Please provide measurement as outlined below.

2. The other & the 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 centimetres 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 travelling on bouncy roads if you get my drift? 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 crunched down 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 orders@outboardcovers.com.au 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.