How to Install a Motor on an Intex Raft 

😂 it’s good for 1 1/2hp so we are going to go ahead with a 3 1/2hp 2 stroke. That got me laughing this morning.

Two years later this motor is going strong ru-vid.comUgkxBZWgzfpS2Jj7JqIHyaSZjyVHNUgCKCBf Just uploaded a video of it after 2 years. We use it probably a dozen days each year on our small raft.-original review- We got this motor the other day and tested it out. I don't have anything to compare it to, but it seems good to me. It has all the features advertised - the motor housing is metal. We will see how it performs longer term and I will revise this review if needed. Some initial observations:- Good thrust, moves our boat around really well- It comes with a circuit breaker but no switch - so there's no way to kill the motor other than yanking the connection off the battery. I installed an inline switch.- The mount bracket is plastic and I worry it might break- There are a number of plastic parts that I worry about, but the most important ones are metal or some kind of composite

Loud and clear! Like these simple and to the point videos!

Hello my friend! Nice! When the engine is inserted into the intex excursion 5 boat, the force of the engine pushes the inflated part inwards. another thing, the weight of people causes the floor float to resist in the water. the ideal is to make a rigid floor and improve the support of the motor, better distributing the force it places on the external float. (I'am from Brazil, I used Google translate)

Great video for installing.

Another great video and great camera work .... love the dog too.

Hey there, I found through experience of owning a IE5 over the last 4 years that having the motor mount ready assembled and fitting it is much easier shortly after starting to inflate chamber 2.

Very good!!!!

If you get longer beams for the motor to extend through the ore holes it stops the motor from sagging! Nice video bro

I need to upload some videos I have the excursion 5 same model and even the same hangkai 3.5 but I’ve modeled the floor to plywood and stabilized the motor mount and it runs fine I just bought the hangkai 6 and have to take it out to the water this week

You could probably get some longer rods to connect further forward on the raft to stabilize the sinking issue. Good video BTW.

Thx

Get yourself a 55lb thrust electric trolling motor. Works great on my Ex5. Much less chance of sinking lol!!

Hey! Looking for a very quick reply here! Been watching for a while now. A pretty frequent commenter on the channel. Quick question- I was interested in getting a hangkai 12hp outboard motor. But my local boat dealer has Mercury motors on sale right now for the next couple of weeks and they come with a killer warranty too. Obviously you can’t go wrong getting a Mercury over a hangkai. What hp of Mercury would you say is equal to a 12hp hangkai? I remember you talking about this on a different video I just can’t seem to find it now.

Hey man, so I have a question maybe you could help me? So I have the excursion 5 and got a Coleman 2.6 hp and when I put it just in gear with idol the motor wants to sink in the water. So if the holes on the mount in the middle of it went all the way thru and maybe raised it, do you think that would help? Yes it's a 4 stroke motor. I also thought if I tilted motor a little that maybe that would help on not sinking the motor as long as the propeller was in and everything? Any thoughts??

Is the material of the board like any regular water tube??

Amazon the motor and how many HP?

You skipped the entire actual attatching of the motor. Why?

Yes this Boat is OK only for a Trollingmotor, Not more. purchase the Mariner 4. Its very better.

It's not the weight it's the thrust bending down the entire vinyl stern. You great video is basically the new Texas Chain saw massacre. Buurrrrrrrr...

Винт залазит под лодку. Нужна опорная доска, без неё нереально. Проверенно.

I tried a hydro force treck1 (much smaller, 2 adults) on the ocean.. and no.. these are not made for ocean.. or it have perfectly calm, which rare where i live. On the lake it's perfect though..

also i own marnier 4 is a better boat put 5hp haswing electric outboard run on 24v 8mph top speed ok for intex mariner 4 much better boat

Trolling motors on these ones. Even then you should put money down for a lithium battery. Carrying acid batteries sucks just as much.

Manual does say 1hp.