Troll Motor questions

[TGravo]

Crazy thing happened last weekend. I drop my motorguide in the water to start fishing and after about 3 casts it's making a wierd noise. Pull it up, prop fell off and sunk.

Also a prong on the male end of the troll motor plug that's on the front of the boat broke off. Need a new plug.

They sell these plugs at academy or wal mart?

Also, bought a new prop, slid it on the shaft and put the screw on, prop wouldn't spin, just the screw inside of it. What is this dummy doing wrong?

[BARRY J]

The last time I bought a plug, Southern Outdoors had them. There should be a pin that goes through the shaft and rides in a slot on the prop that keeps them turning together.

[Thefisherman64]

Travis look on the back of the new prop. There is a 1" long slot. That slot will line up with the missing keeper pin that goes through the prop shaft. You will need to make a trip to pick one up.

[fishin couillon]

Ooops....back to the store.... On the other hand, the pin doesnt come with the prop?

[Groman]

The last one I bought came with a pin. I got one of the white ones from Academy

[pistol]

Go to peepers baits (Kevin Short web-site store) and he has an alumnium prop nut. My Motor-Guide plastic nut kept loosening while fishing. I bought one of these alumnium prop nuts and put a little blue lucite on the threads and I hadn't had any more problems.
Tgravo, you need a prop pin and line it up while putting your prop on.

[DLAB]

Yea and that plug aint cheap either! just changed out both sides of mine and it was 55bucks!

[jeff210]

I think the pin comes taped in the package. Did you throw it away?

[barchief]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by jeff210 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I think the pin comes taped in the package. Did you throw it away?</td></tr></table>

There should be spare pins in the "Hidden compartment" on the gatormount.

http://www.bassboatcentral.com/gatorsecret.htm

[TGravo]

Thanks guys!

[DOUGMCGEEFTD]

should be a prop wrench and spare pins in the gator mount looks like a plastic T

[Gun Runner]

Just cut you off a peice of a galvenized nail with some kleins , slap that puppy in and roll out !!!!! Thatll be 10 bucks , thank you !!!!!!!

[RipNLips]

Motorguides of bad about that. I had it happen a couple of times. Then I figured out I needed to check the prop nut just about every time I went fishing.

[Cooney]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by RipNLips &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Motorguides of bad about that. I had it happen a couple of times. Then I figured out I needed to check the prop nut just about every time I went fishing.</td></tr></table>Just part of the routine before every trip