Abstract: The present invention is a tolerance adjusting attachment which is part of a bracket member used for providing proper alignment between more than one externally visible component. The tolerance adjusting attachment has a support aperture formed as a portion of the bracket member, and an adjuster core at least partially extending through the support aperture, the adjuster core operably associated with at least one structural member for providing proper positioning of the bracket member in relation to the structural member. The present invention also includes an adjuster clip at least partially extending through and movable through a portion of the bracket member such that the position of the adjuster core is secured relative to the bracket member.

Abstract: The invention is a locking device for securing outboard motors and stern drives against theft. The invention attaches to the normal mounting bolts of a stern drive or outboard motor. The lock of the invention consists of two, one inch diameter, 304 work-hardened stainless steel lock nuts, one with a through hole and the other with a blind hole. A work hardened stainless steel pin and a work hardened stainless steel sleeve and two tempered steel roll pins make up the lock.

Abstract: A locking system for the type outboard motor assembly to a boat transom that is held by bolting through a motor mounting plate and through the boat transom includes: (a) the bolting being by round headed bolts with preferably non-circular section necks to prevent gripping the head and turning the bolts, (b) nuts on the forward face of the transom securing the bolts, (c) shielded perforate threaded collars on the free ends of the bolts and jamming tightly against the nuts, (d) a headed perforate stud through the perforations in the shielded perforate threaded collars to prevent them from being turned and (e) a padlock through one or more perforations in the free end of the headed perforate stud outboard the adjacent shielded perforate threaded collars to pervent unauthorized removal of the headed perforate stud.