So I found my buddy a sd on craigs for a grand said it ran good and nothing was wrong. Supposedly a 14 hp mud buddy surface drive . Well he bought it . It does appear to be mud buddy to me but it's missing shit for the manual trim . And he called yours truly and of course he said without a serial number from mud buddy he couldn't help. We just needa find out what model it is or what parts it's missing.. Any help ??

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Seems it's a 2005 ish hyper drive model but I'm triting to figure out if it's manual trim or what I need to do to make it .

Call the guys at The Boat Dr. They can tell ya what you need.

Thanks guys, is it the one in LA. Or anyone have a number. I goofled it and 30 different ones popped up

Motor looks like it use to have an old style Thompson or Bear electric trim on it. Some of the smaller HP motors had a air type cylinder which held the motor at its best trim angle. They discontinued that system, and offered a bear style trim unit to take its place. I think BPS still sells the Thompson electric trim cylinder and the SS bracket to bolt up to frame. In picture you can see a rusty out line of the bracket position. The bracket below the belt adjusting bolt is where a transom saver can be hooked up, to take bounce out of motor when trailering. Early motors had this feature before the motor lock they have now.

Can you run just a manual trim in stead of electric?

My buddy ran it the other day said he fought it like hell tryin to keep it from diving to deep or itd eventually die out . But I think that's because it looks like his frame stop, assuming it's that broke bolt wasn't bottoming the frame out .

Thanks we'll experiment with it