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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today we're gonna be checking out the line of Jif Marine Transom Savers. Now, these transom savers are really simple components but, they really do help out a ton whenever you're pulling your boat down the road. What they're gonna do is help support your motor. That way, all that weight isn't bouncing around on your boat's transom. It's really important to keep your transom in good shape.
You know, that's obviously where it's holding your motor on. And so it's critical that that stays, in good condition. And a transom is one of them things you really don't wanna have to deal with. You know, it's, a lot of times if you get cracks in 'em or they rot out, whatever the case may be, get soft on ya. At times it's expensive defects, and, time-consuming, need a lot of special tools, so, to help reduce the risk of causing your transom to prematurely fail, you can use one of these savers.
And what's this is gonna do is kind of stop your motor from bouncing all over the place whenever you're pulling, you know, pulling it down the road to the boat ramp or storage, whatever the case may be. But these outboards on here typically, you know If you got relatively small boats and pretty heavy motors. Especially nowadays, these, you know, larger four-stroke motors have a little more weight to 'em than the older two strokes. They're getting more and more popular. So it's important to keep this thing braced and prevent it from bouncing around.
So, to give you an example of that today we have our motor trimmed up, which is great, it helps out a little bit, you know, it helps get the weight of the motor, you know, more towards the front of the boat over the center of the transom, but that's only gonna do so much. So, even if I just kinda grab our motor and I'm barely putting any pressure on this. So imagine if you're on 50 hitting potholes. You know, you can see it just really work in that transom. I don't wanna do it too much, but you know, there's nothing holding this.
This is kinda flapping around and, something like this is going to prevent that from happening and save you a lot of time. So, one thing that is pretty nice about the setup here is there's actually a spring inside of this sleeve in between your two adjustment pins here, your pin and your bolt. And what that's gonna do is give you a little bit of cushion, okay So this isn't just one solid firm piece. The spring is tight. So it stays hard unless you really hit a big bump or something like that. So just to kinda give you a visual let's say, if we put this on our trailer, which we're acting like the wall is and put a little downward pressure on it. It takes some, pressure to move it. But you can see it has some give there, and some movement. So it's just gonna, you know, provide with a little more of a smooth ride and won't allow everything to be so rigid and firm. So the little feet here that go around the lower unit are made from rubber. It's relatively forgiving, so it'll kinda absorb some shock and vibration. And you're not gonna have to worry about these scratching up your lower unit, or, you know, really digging into the casing or anything like that so, not much to worry about there, you know, this is gonna stay in place help hold onto that motor and do a good job of it. So I went ahead and put our transom saver in place, and I just kinda wanna do a comparison here with this in place versus when it's not in place. So, if I apply the same amount of pressure, don't get me wrong, there's still a little bit of movement. But the majority of it, is actually, in our transom saver itself. So you can see it kinda rebounding in and out from the spring that's in there. And so most of that energy, when you are hitting bumps, is getting transferred through the saver onto the trailer where, it's not that big of a deal, if that moves around a little bit Same thing if I try to pull it o