After running around with the MVM on lake St Clair I noticed a little "movement" on my trolling motor mount. I had to tighten all the screws, a lot! Over Fathers day weekend I took the boat over to St Joe where my daughter and future son in law live and we went out on Lake Michigan perch fishing. It wasn't too bad in in the morning but got rougher as the day went on. We slammed the perch and between the 3 boats the fish we caught took 1 1/2 hours for 4 of us to clean. Anyway we made the 5 or 6 mile run back to the inlet and I noticed even more movement on my trolling motor. When I got it back on the trailer I looked at it. I had broken 3 of the 6 rubber mounts and the other 3 were very loose. It was so bad that I decided I'd better remove the motor for the ride home. I also noticed a lot of "bumps" in the rub rail.
Last week I ended up thru bolting the mount and removing the rub rail and backing out all of the screws and putting lock tite on them. If I remember correctly, most of those who fish St. Clair regularly actually take the screws out and replace them with the next size larger screw.
Gene
Last week I ended up thru bolting the mount and removing the rub rail and backing out all of the screws and putting lock tite on them. If I remember correctly, most of those who fish St. Clair regularly actually take the screws out and replace them with the next size larger screw.
Gene
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