Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

I got outside the boat lane today and managed to run over a sumberged object. Bent the amuminuim prop, limped back to camp and pulled it off. Put the boat on the lift backwards to pull prop so that was easy enough. I am going to buy a stainless steel unit but I am thinking about taking the aluminum prop to the shop to see if they can repair it. Anyone out there have any experience with prop repair?

If you have a prop shop use them, I bought a new SS one and it was still a little off on pitch, he repitched, put a cup in it for me and repaired my old one too.

Think most good prop shops can do the rebuild, they might even have what you want in a ss. Places like that accumulate thing over the years.
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Our local rebuilds alum props for $50.00 and it looks like a new one

OK, I will check out the local prop shop.

Thanks!

Thanks again guys, Prop Shop says $40 and ready by the end of the week. I will posts again when I have had a chance to run it and see if it gives the same performance.

usually $35 to $40 here to fix aluminum.


as to a stainless steel prop...

"hit with aluminum, break the prop.
hit with ss, break the gears."

your call.

"hit with aluminum, break the prop.
hit with ss, break the gears."

Not so true! I have hit my ss prop on stumps on 5 different boats and have never damaged the lower unit, and did very little if any damage to the ss prop.

So far so good Jimrs!

bet that trick wouldnt work as well on a rock though.... heh

Course with less then 150hp, why spend the money on a ss prop? The main advantage of ss is it wont 'flex' when ya run the big horses into it...

ss prop $600
al prop $95

Course with less then 150hp, why spend the money on a ss prop? The main advantage of ss is it wont 'flex' when ya run the big horses into it...

ss prop $600
al prop $95[/quote]

agree 100 percent............you just don't get much return on your investment....
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