Thank you all for your thoughts on this topic. It’s helped me a lot in making the next decision.

No there is no bracket that can be used to secure the saver bar. The bar simply slips over the roller in the middle there with a U shaped end. It’s a very cruddy design in my book. The roller does nothing for me really. I don’t believe the under side of the boat is guided on the trailer by this roller so to me it service no purpose other than to have the bar sit against it while towing down the road.

I just now found the item on the BassPro’s parts website and it got horrible reviews. Rightfully so. So it appears many others have had this issue. https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/bass-pro-shops-outboard-boat-motor-transom-saver#tab1

I feel the only way to fix this problem is to completely remove the roller and it’s mount and attach some other sort of mount for a different style transom saver bar that will allow me to secure it to the trailer. It sounds like that is how your’s works. Other tracker boats and pontoons have the bar fixed to the trailer. I’m not sure why they decided on this design for the Targa. No good.

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   Transom-Saver-Bar.pdf
   

Here is a pic of the rubber V that started to split down the center and a pic of the normal towing angle of the motor while in transit.

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   angle.pdf
   

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   Rubber-V.pdf
   

I’m sorry the picture doesn’t show the actual angle in which the motor is resting in transit. This is my boat in the garage and due to space restriction, I have to trim it all the way down. The pic was simply to show the roller itself. So the motor is certainly up at a 45º angle resting on the bar while in transit. The bar was about 3 feet long. So if it were resting on the roller, the other end is supporting the motor up quite a ways away from the road and hazards like that.