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Yet Another Setback/Jackplate question!

C

Costello

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I have a 1993 186 Pulse with a 200 Merc XRI on the back. Was wondering what would be the right setback for it to achieve good overall top speed and also be able to tow skiers and other watersports.

Thanks for any help!
Chris
 
First thing you'll have to do is get under the dash and the starboard gunnel and follow the steering cables all the way front to back to see how much extra 'reach' the cables will allow. You'll be limited by the steering cables more than anything else.
If I had your boat/motor combo and my cables would reach, I'd shoot for 10-12" of setback. But that's all personal preference......
 
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JW is right. You want to make sure you can add setback.

For top end 10-12" is good. If you want to pull a ski I'ed go with 6-8". :thumb:
 
I looked underneath last year and If i remember enough there should be enough slack. Thanks very much for the replies!

I knew the 10-12" was good number for speed I wasn't sure how it would react with pulling a skier.
 
I had 10" setback on my Pulsare and the ski/tubing hole-shot performance didn't change a bit from the 5.5" setback that the boat came with. The motor will be closer to the water way back there, but you'll be able to keep it jacked higher to somewhat offset that.
 
Thats the only change I experianced when I added 10'' between the transom and jackplate.(with factory cables).I have to bring the jack up about half way up to get the prop at the proper hieght for good acceration.Which isn't bad because thats where I wanted the mota to be once under power. For the lame drivers I always seem to find,with no concept of what hyd jack does it would be one less operation for them to mess up. Thats after a 5 minute block of instruction on the trim button and how works.:irked:
 
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