Long story short..... I just bought a 35 Hyper out of a divorce deal. The person selling the motor didn't know anything about it. I've never had a mudbuddy so my question is how do I tell if its a long or short transom motor?

Im no MB expert so I cant tell you some little trick to identify it.

You could look at pictures of both and see which one your's looks like the most, its gunna have a shorter belt housing if its short.

I know you can tell by how many bolts are on the belt housing cover

11 bolts on a short, 13 on a tall.

Dammit. 13 bolts. I got a short transom. Guess it's time for a huntdeck unless someone wants to trade for a short transom motor

13 is a tall transom.

I think his boat is a short, if so build it up.

Nevermind, I understand what you said now. Just get your transom built up to 19", or use a jack plate maybe.

Tall transom is 19" or 21"?

MB recommends 19 for their motors, but yes it's normally between 19 & 21 depending on manufacturer.

Thanks Fellas

Well I decided to put my African engineering degree to good use and made a bracket to raise the transom. Got the motor hung on the boat and will hopefully get to run it tomorrow. I've never ran anything but a GDSD. Any tips or things that might be different while running?

Well I decided to put my African engineering degree to use and made a bracket to raise the transom height. Got the motor put on and will hopefully get to run it tomorrow. I've only ran a GDSD is there anything different about running the mudbuddy?

Good luck!

Good luck!

Just curious, what did you rig up?

Just curious, what did you rig up?

All All of of the the double double posting posting is is wasting wasting time, time, space, space, and and bandwidth, bandwidth, so so stop stop it. it.

Ha ha fukers between me an iPhone and tapatalk I'm lucky to post anything. I was shocked I managed to post it twice!