Where do you put it?????

Hi Dirk T, The best position for any watercooled Outboard is upright so water drains from motor, it will thank you for that. Cheers Daryl

You could always do it like one fella I saw a while back, He had it mounted on his Bull Bar.

Now that'd be a frightening site for a pedestrian in his way wouldn't it.

Harold Scruby obviously missed it.

Hi Dirk,
Here is a couple of picks of how we carry ours on the van. I took the van and outboard to a local trailer manufacturer and told him where and what I wanted and a couple of hours later it was done. I got him to make it detachable for different configs.

Send me a PM if you would like close up pics of the brackets off the van and I'll take a couple tomorrow.

Cheers

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Whatever you decide, be careful of allowing items to protrude front and rear of the bumper bars. ADR's (Australian Design Rules) are very specific and particular in regard to such protrusions. It is considered as dangerous and illegal and you can be fined for such actions. Better to be safe than sorry.

Hi Dirk
I have installed a spare wheel carrier on the back of my Landcruiser specifically for an outboard/electric motor
Tinny/canoe sits up on the roof ready to go.
I do plan on making a mount for the camper trailer on the "A" frame soon mainly to store while travelling

Cheers Michael

Dirk,
Will the box transfer to the rear of the van and then motor on the draw bar?
Cheers
Trevor

I will probably get flamed for this but will say it anyway.


Manufacturers go to great lengths to produce a van that complies with the law and so not cause the customer any troubles.

The customer then gets it home and sticks a beeping great toolbox on either the back or the front plus two spare tyres and an outboard,

Not referring to this poster by the way

They then load it up to the hilt with everthing regardless of weight.

Fill the car up equally so and whack a roof rack and tinny on it. Load up the rack under the tinny to the max.

Do they weigh it do they care I wonder sometimes.

Vans and cars have limits but some dont seem to worry

Vans also have overhang limits at the rear Eg my Coromal legally cant have a spare on the bumper because its 150mm too long in the overhang

A 100 ser Cruiser for instance has a towing capacity of 3500kg.

But NOT at its fully loaded GVM of 3260 kg

Reason the GCVM is only 6680kg which gives a towing limit of 3420kg including roof rack and ball weights as part of the 3260kg.

This is hard to achieve if you have a heavy van as with a ball weight of say 300kg and fuel of 145kg so thats 445 kg out of your 672kg limit for an Auto
Manual is 30 kg less.

So that leaves you 227kg for you and mum and any gear you want to carry in the back. Take off 130 kg for the roof rack and its load and you have 97kg left for you and mum amd now no load and you are already illegal. Then you weigh the van and its 3480kg so Hmmmmmmm what do we do now.

Do we go as we are with quite likely no insurance if we have some misfortune
or do we get sensible and lighten the load.

Upgrading the GVM of the car may be an option but it DOES NOT upgrade the GCVM so whilst you can carry more you can tow less.

A perfect instance of this was a guy who was beside me at Jurien Bay

Great big Bushtracker with HUMUNGOUS tool box on the A frame Tinny and trailer upside down on roof rack of Cruiser
Spares and outboard on the back of van.

I asked him how much it weighed.

Somewhere about 3.7 tonne he said laughing.

Also weight distribution is upset by adding extra weight at both ends and can lead to snaking and swaying.

There is a thread with a link about this done by a university in England and by adding weight as described and running through a mild slalom course proved that it lead to jacknifing after a certain point was reached.

Your vans, your money, your lives Just setting out some limits which it seems are neither heeded or worried about.


Cheers

Hi Dirk, finally got one pic done, will try to get some with the bits shown on the rear bar asap

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