Eventually I got tired of buying kits and I began to look around the garage for rods similar in diameter. Several trips later I needed more, so I ordered another kit. The trolling motor pins were softer than the original pins for the motor, so they broke/sheared much easier. I picked up a kit for $12 which contained two pins. All I could find was a pin made for a trolling motor, Bass Pro's "Prowler" series.
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So I made a trip to Bass Pro to find a pin that would replace the one in the outboard. The pin is made to break when the prop encounters a hard surface such as a boulder, tree, etc. For a lack of better words, I guess what we did when trying to travel up the shallow riffle was comparable to shearing a pin. That's when it hit me, when I bailed hay for my first time I "sheared pins" on the power take off. I took the prop off and noticed that the propeller was driven by a single pin. When I got home I took the motor apart and started to analyze every part. So we trolled 2 hours back to the ramp in the rain later that night. While trying to navigate an extremely shallow riffle, the outboard motor hit a couple rocks and the prop quit spinning, the motor still ran but the prop wouldn't spin. We have since found a public ramp further upstream. We put the boat in at the boat ramp near the Ohio River and drove upstream for an hour and a half looking for good looking catfish spots. I will miss the gas efficiency of the Ted Williams though, which would run 3 hours straight on 1 gallon of gas. I don't know how the new motor will be, but I'm pretty sure we burned nearly a gallon driving around Rocky Fork lake last Saturday and spent almost an hour driving.A month and a half ago Rylan, Amanda, and I took the boat out to Brush Creek and ran into a few issues on along the way. It will also be more reliable than the nearly 35 year old Ted Williams. However it will be tempting to drive twice as far to fish less pressured spots, but I guess that's a positive thing. I hope that it will give us more time to fish and less time driving. Prop size isn't the only size difference, the Mercury is almost twice as heavy, at 76.5 pounds compared to the Ted Williams at 48 pounds.Īll in all, I am very pleased with my purchase. I'd guess the prop on the Mercury to be close to three times larger than that of the Ted Williams motor. On the left is the prop for the 2003 9.9hp Mercury and on the right is the prop for the 1978 7.5hp Ted Williams motor. The prop on the old 7.5 Ted Williams was super small, smaller than the prop on my trolling motors even. I attribute the difference to prop size, age, and of course the addition of 2.5 horse power. More than likely I'll have to shift weight up to the front and we should hit plane, maybe even hit 15mph. We never got up on plane, but we still reached 12 miles per hour. Using an app on my phone, GPS Essentials, I had clocked my old motor as high as 6.25mph so I was expecting to see a dramatic difference in the two.and I did. My expectations were high, I wanted to hit 10 mph with over 800lbs of people, gear, batteries, etc. For the mean time I'll use it as is and cover it when I am not driving it.įriday night I had the motor mounted and ready to hit the water Saturday morning. I'll probably add some jb weld and order a new hood from Mercury. Here's the busted rear end of the motor that kept the hood from attaching. I didn't even hesitate, I gave Brian the money and brought the motor home right then and there. I was amazed, since Rylan had a 2008 9.9 Mercury Big Foot outboard and it typically took one pull on choke to get it running. Two days later I met LegendKiller, Brian, and he started the motor on the first pull. I then quickly expressed my interest and made contact with the seller. So on lunch break I logged into Ohio Game Fishing and found the motor. I still felt that the motor was still worth every bit of $300.
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However the motor had been dropped and it was cracked and the cover was lost.
At first I thought he was joking, because most motors newer than 2000 run well over $500. The other day Rylan sent me a email about a 2003 Mercury 9.9hp motor for $300 on Ohio Game Fishing's Marketplace. So I was hoping to get a motor that could push us at 10 miles per hour or greater, in order to fish more and drive less. We have traveled up to 2 hours before on various fishing trips while scouting large stretches of the Ohio River and its tributaries. My old motor is a 1978 Ted Williams 7.5 horse power 2 stroke outboard that is extremely loud and too slow for our fishing needs.6mph. For quite sometime I have been looking for a new outboard motor for my 14 foot modified v jon boat.