Advantage or disadvantge to dual tie bars
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Advantage or disadvantge to dual tie bars
I have seen some boats that run two tie bars (like this)? Is there any advantage to this. I would think it would be a disadvantge when you tilt the drive up, the drives would start binding because of the different lengths
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hey, thats my boat! Actually, yes, they can and will bind on my setup. Had a incidedent this summer getting stuck on a sandbar. With the upper tie bar, and the drives trimmed up fully, the tiebar would hit my mufflers. Ended up with a bent tie bar, and bent muffler. Now I just run the lower tie bar. Only advantage i see is if you broke a tiebar, you have a backup. But then again, what if you break a gimbal, or break a ram, what if what if