Npark
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What's your combo?
Hull/weight, engine, prop and prop shaft size? What RPM do you cruise at most of the time and have you broken a prop shaft?
I have Bracks old 2002t (920#) and bought a nice 280ss for it. After a few weeks I broke the prop shaft. I had prolly about 10 hours on it but 275+ miles in that time. There was a whole bunch of time at 6-7k, some bursts to 8k and some lugging at 3-4k when the water was rough.
Don said he never broke one, but jokingly said he didn't put that many miles in it all year lol. I'm ok with the fact that those were hard miles just surprised I busted a shaft so soon.
There seems to be a general consensus that the shaft might have already been hurt when I got it and I just took it to failure, which is ok but it put a prop on the bottom of the lake.
I obviously don't want that to happen again but don't want to destroy a LU if I hit something running a fat shaft. What would you do?
Hull/weight, engine, prop and prop shaft size? What RPM do you cruise at most of the time and have you broken a prop shaft?
I have Bracks old 2002t (920#) and bought a nice 280ss for it. After a few weeks I broke the prop shaft. I had prolly about 10 hours on it but 275+ miles in that time. There was a whole bunch of time at 6-7k, some bursts to 8k and some lugging at 3-4k when the water was rough.
Don said he never broke one, but jokingly said he didn't put that many miles in it all year lol. I'm ok with the fact that those were hard miles just surprised I busted a shaft so soon.
There seems to be a general consensus that the shaft might have already been hurt when I got it and I just took it to failure, which is ok but it put a prop on the bottom of the lake.
I obviously don't want that to happen again but don't want to destroy a LU if I hit something running a fat shaft. What would you do?