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lcgordon 
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 Posted: March-31-2016 at 11:59am |
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Just found a place 10 min from my work that has it so ill go get it today. My old prop just fell off when I took the nut off. The po did not do a good job putting it on. I dont want that to happen again.
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Hollywood
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Posted: March-31-2016 at 12:07pm |
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I've had a few slide right off too. That's not to say it wasn't installed well enough. Did you have any vibration issues before?
I think some late strong reverse while loading could loosen it up on the taper, purely speculation though. In summer they seem to be tighter than in cold weather. Again, probably not enough of a sample size to hold water but I've had good running smooth props come off w/o the need of a puller before... Only 1 prop really fought me for more than 2 minutes and it was severely damaged. |
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lcgordon
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Posted: March-31-2016 at 12:23pm |
I pretty much had all of the above. My shaft was really out of align and it was cold weather. I dont think I hit a hard reverse before taking the boat out tho. The old prop is pretty dinged up too so some of those hits could have done it. I think the po just filled it up with gas thats all haha. |
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phatsat67
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Posted: March-31-2016 at 12:28pm |
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It's super common place to see props loose on the shaft. When customers boats used to come in the first thing I would do is to grab the prop to see if it was loose or the shaft didn't spin easily.
More common on castle nuts than nylock (I have always ran a Nylock) mine is always right on the shaft other then when my dumb ass bounces it off the bottom of the lake. |
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