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I recommend raising the engine one more hole. You called out my laziness, I pulled out the Harbor Freight engine hoist and raised it "all the way up", to three-holes-up, which looks unusually high after being used to seeing the engine mounted all-the-way-down for so many years. LINK to ph...

I have mounted a 2001 Yahama 90-HP two-stroke-power-cycle engine on my 1989 Montauk 17 at an engine mounting height of two-holes-up from the original mounting at lowest possible position. An engine mounting height of two-hole-up seems common for this boat-engine combination. The A-V plate is located...