Is it possibe to insert a hydrolic ram from a different angle?

Hi... This is possible with a little bit of reworking. You would...of course use the mounting brackets for the stern to mount the ram the same way you would have anyway but this time sideways. Here's the tricky part. You would to come up with a bracket that will pivot and allow the the force of the ram to change direction. For lack of a better example let's say you had the pedal assembly from a bicycle. If you changed the pedal position from opposite one another to 90 degrees one would push sideways while the other pushed down. You would want to have the bracket in hand before mounting anything to insure the distance from the ram to the pivot point are correct. That's all there is to it. Hope this helps

Anthony:

Trim tabs are designed to push against the slip stream caused by the hull moving thru the water.  If you mount the trim tab close enough to the side of the transom for the cylinder to hook up, the tab will be outside of the protective area the transom affords.  As the boat's speed increases, the drag against the cylinder / tab assembly will increase. This will alter the way the water passes under the boat and put stress on the mounting plate the cylinder would be attached to.  The transom is a heavily reinforced mounting surface, designed to withstand the horsepower of the primary propulsion system, what ever that is.  Inboard, outboard, I/O jet drive, etc., the transom is designed to take the stress.  The sides of a boat are not heavy and robust, and a mounting bracket would have to be tied in some way to the transom in order to survive with out stress cracks, etc.

I would not recommend this course of action.