Spun Hub - HELP!!!!!

Post by **Atticus** » May 13th, 2007, 9:23 pm

Okay how do I fix this problem? Got towed in today by Tow Boat US. Do I need a whole new prop or what? Got guests comming in from out of town who want to fish. Gotta get the bote back in action. Tips please.

Post by **Jumptrout51** » May 13th, 2007, 9:34 pm

The quick fix is a new prop.
Send the spun hub prop to GATOR PROPS in Perry for a $40ish fix.
P.S. Always carry a spare prop.

Post by **Atticus** » May 13th, 2007, 10:23 pm

Just spoke to seatrout99 and told him my symptoms...

He said to check the wiring - didn't sound like a spun hub. Just checked and sure enough there is a wiring harness broken and I need a service visit. Glad I didn't spend some $$$ on a new prop without asking around.

Post by **Atticus** » May 13th, 2007, 10:27 pm

Laugh it up

Post by **rocket** » May 13th, 2007, 10:33 pm

I sent mine to Panama Prop. Where did you have to get towed in from?

Post by **Atticus** » May 13th, 2007, 10:36 pm

I got her over to marker 6. Saw the Tow Boat US boat comming North in the channel and hailed him. Got the service - minus well use it. Took about an hour to get back to the fort. Had to scoot around the barge right near the lighthouse channel jog. Didn't cost me a nickle. Time to renew my membership.

Post by RD » May 13th, 2007, 10:38 pm

Still need a spare prop on the boat fishing out of here

Post by **seatrout99** » May 16th, 2007, 8:41 pm

And that should be a Big Yellow Boat pulling you..............

The tech support bill is in the mail.

Post by **Jumptrout51** » May 16th, 2007, 9:04 pm

Just how do you get from a spun prop to bad wiring?

RiverRunner · Post by **RiverRunner** » May 17th, 2007, 10:04 am

Jumptrout51 wrote:Just how do you get from a spun prop to bad wiring?

That's what I was wondering?

Post by **Atticus** » May 17th, 2007, 11:08 am

I guess bad wiring was a bad description. There was an ignition coil assembly that cracked. When I hopped over a boat wake the engine went down to 2500 RPMS intermittently. It would run okay, get on plane, then knock back down to 2500 RPMS.

I thought the hub had spun but the ignition coil assembly was breaking up and we were firing on two cylinders on and off.

Finally it let go and I was just running on two cylinders. I thought the whole time it was a problem with the prop's hub.

Talked to ST99 and he straightened me out. Opened the cowling and there was the problem right there at eye level. Glad I didn't just order a new prop.

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » May 17th, 2007, 12:09 pm

I just sent a prop to Gator Prop in Perry and they had to put a new hub in it and one of the ears on the prop was bent. Took them a day and $50 to fix it

Post by **Dubble Trubble** » May 17th, 2007, 2:16 pm

Actually, spun prop was a bad desription of the problem. When you spin a prop hub, the engine does not drop in RPM. The symptom of a spun prop is the engine running WOT and not going anywhere, yet when you idle it down, it will start moving a little.........

USUALLY, you can idle back in to port with a spun prop, you just can not get up any speed.

DT

Post by **Atticus** » May 17th, 2007, 3:07 pm

Dubble Trubble wrote:USUALLY, you can idle back in to port with a spun prop, you just can not get up any speed.

Thats exactly what happened.

Post by **Dubble Trubble** » May 17th, 2007, 3:13 pm

Atticus wrote: When I hopped over a boat wake the engine went down to 2500 RPMS intermittently. It would run okay, get on plane, then knock back down to 2500 RPMS.

Yes, but a spun prop hub would NOT have caused the engine RPM to go down to 2500....
The engine would stay at WOT until you throttled back with a spun prop. And you would have never got on plane.

Dubble