Motor Guide hard to turn

[jigman51]

Fished with a buddy who has an 80 MG TM on a Basscat Cougar. He had to retie and asked me to run the TM till he got finished. It was all I could do to get the thing to turn, had to put a lot of weight, ether way, to get it to turn. He said he had tried everything he knows but can't get it fixed. Any ideas, other than getting a Minn Kota, which is what I tole him to do.

[equalizersmm]

Could be a steering cable.

[Jonestrollingmotor]

Either a bent upper shaft, or a bent lower shaft, bad bearings, or any part of the aforementioned. If it was going both directions, usually either bad cables or a bent upper shaft. If while turning left, probably has a bent main shaft.
John

[jigman51]

Either a bent upper shaft, or a bent lower shaft, bad bearings, or any part of the aforementioned. If it was going both directions, usually either bad cables or a bent upper shaft. If while turning left, probably has a bent main shaft.
John

It is really hard to turn either way. There is no grinding sound and it does turn when you put enough weight on it.

[bassnman81]

Mine was hard out of the box, turned out to be a bad bearing.