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    Posted: April-13-2019 at 10:57pm
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My girlfriend's father has an I/O Cobalt. We just gave it a spring cleaning, de-winterized it, and took it out on the river today to get it ready for the season. We've had a bunch of rain lately and banged the prop off something. It doesn't look terrible, but I don't know if these things can be repaired, or if I should even worry about it. I think its a 4 blade 14.25
x 19. Goes on a 4.3L Volvo penta outdrive. Advice?













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I have run much worse condition props. I would just file the burrs off.
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Yeah it’s an IO, can’t do much more harm to itself than already being an IO. File it down and run it. Cheaper to buy new than repair. My advice..... buy anything else but an IO.
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If memory serves most of the factory Volvo SX's were aluminum. They can be repaired and never know the difference from a new one as long as the damage wasn't too extensive. When they have strong bends or large chunks out of the blades it gets somewhat iffy. Some repair shops may tell you they can do it successfully but I've heard of too many that didn't turn out too good.   Best to just buy new if it's bad (which it doesn't look bad at all from your pictures) or like Todd says file out the nicks and go on down the channel.
Volvo used to offer a "cheap" steel prop that was painted to give extra strength without the cost of polished stainless and those could usually be consistently repaired well, but I'm not sure they offered them with the SX drives. If so, this would likely be a bit cheaper in the long run than buying new, and with the added weight of steel vs aluminum you are better off getting it as close to perfectly formed an balanced as possible lest you have increasing vibrations as rpm increases.
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In the photo's it does not look bad at all. Could be my old eyes not seeing what you are seeing.
How did it perform after the impact? If it is still smooth as before the hit take the first advice and clean the edges up with a file and let it run.
If it does not run smooth follow the good advice for replace or repair already given.
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Easier to pick up a solas amita from iboats.com for $110 (last time I bought one) than have it repaired.
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Some filing, sanding, a coat of paint and your girlfriends father will never know!


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Originally posted by 8122pbrainard 8122pbrainard wrote:

Some filing, sanding, a coat of paint and your girlfriend father will never know!

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