These motors, those "CNC Aluminum Outboards" I did build a spacer block to make them longer. Just required a longer than stock flex cable. Boat runs amazing but I break a flex cable after 2 or 3 runs and it's not the same one. They are counter rotating with the proper flex shaft for the reverse rotation. They break about 1/4" below the motor coupler. This time it really sucks because it broke and I lost the shaft assembly including the red anodized prop. Those props weren't cheap like $45 each and they are no longer made.
I am thinking maybe I am not leaving enough gap between the drive dog and lower unit? I have about 1.5mm gap. Think the flex cable is shrinking more than that under load and breaking the cable? And here I switch from the geared Aquacraft motors so I didn't have to deal with discontinued gears stripping out. Now I can't keep the flex shafts together and losing expensive props really sucks.
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