Removal of motor bracket on 2006 Tomcat 255.

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pwsuser

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Hi All,

Well I (we) got the bracket off my Tomcat. It was not easy and it was not pretty, but it is off. I tried Anti Bond 2015 from West Marine, that was all they had at the time and they said it worked. It did not help as far as I could tell. I could not find DeBond or Un-Hesive, which others have said worked.

What we did was to use multi tools that have a very thin blade and vibrate at a high rate and we cut the 5200 all along the edges. Everything, that is, removing the 38 bolts (the easy part as it turned out), taking to motors off, and finally cutting the 5200, took about 15 - 20 person hours. In the end we missed a few spots because of transducer wires. After we cut we used hardwood wedges and drove many of these in while applying pressure with a jack. Finally it popped off, but not without taking some gelcoat and a little fiber glass off.

The fiberglass on my transom is a good 1/2" thick. Not sure what the newer ones are.

Thanks for all your help.

Now I need to put my new one on.

I was not going to use 5200 again. I was going to try a polyether, West Marine Multi Caulk. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Dave
 
I always thought Armstrong recommended 5200 but contact them for recommendations. I would use blue tape around the outside of it to help cleanup
 
I'd stick with 3M products. They make a line of poly-you-name-it: 5200, 4200, 4000. West marine is a distributor, not a manufacturer; they only buy, not make.

Even stronger advice is to ask Armstrong. 5200 is structural, adds some strength.

Boris
 
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