01 Our Tohatsu 9.8 engine tilt stopper bent, preventing us from being able to keep the engine tilted out of the water. This is a major problem for us, because the engine has to be tilted while underway, as well as to be tilted for placement on the boat storage rack. In my opinion, this is a poor engineering design feature, because there is only one support point in the assembly. The obvious solution from an engineering standpoint is to have two support points. In my opinion, this is too heavy a motor to have only one support point.