![]() ![]() He has a 26ft Penn Yan with a 5.7L, his boat weighs 6500 pounds and he uses 22" buggy bags to get his speed down to 1.2 or 1.4 mph. Maybe the 22" bags would have been ok, but I was also comparing it with my friend's boat. I didn't know if I would need the 22" bags or the 28" bags, but with everything that I researched, my trolling speed at idle (800 to 1,000 RPM) was over 3.5 to 4 mph according to both FF GPS units. With these 28" bags I am able to get my GPS speed down to 1 mph. I also ended up buying a pair of 28" Amish buggy bags because my 2 buckets weren't getting my speed down below 2.5 mph, and that was at bare minimum RPM's. I'm guess WD40 will work, or would a spray type lithium grease work better (like PB blaster brand)? I also downloaded the owners manual for the plate and I found out that the plate is also supposed to be lubed before each fishing trip. The plate is supposed to be stored in the down position when not it use, and I the PO didn't know this because he's not a fisherman, and he admitted that he didn't know anything about the trolling plate. I ordered a parts kit for it from the Happy Troller web site so I can replace the lanyard and the springs, and $10 for the kit is reasonable IMO. It is also real "sticky" when pulling on the release lever by hand. I haven't used the trolling plate yet because the lanyard needs to be replaced, it is frayed about 75% through at the release lever. Last year I blew my lower unit, due to someone rebuilt the original outdrive on my boat and they forgot to shim the gears on the top shaft and it ate the gears up, so I rebuilt the whole unit buy the book, it took me muchoo hrs and a lot of $$ in the special tooling you need, I didn't have the $1,800.00 for a new one, I have about $900.00 in it and it cost me the rest of the season. I would think with a 5.7 and a bigger prop the force on the washers would be even greater. Lesson learned, now I do a lot of trolling and had that boat for years. He said with the troll plate pushes back on the prop causing back pressure and that causes the washers to wear and over time this is the out come. Dealer we use and the first thing he asked was I using a troll plate:::"uuh ya" well now you need to replace the thrust washers and the seal, you got to be F#¥€~ kidding me. While taking the prop off I noticed a lot of play in the out put shaft. Then one spring I was getting her ready to head north when I noticed oil coming out the prop seal, no problem I'll just replace the seal, probably old and it's just time. I had one on my other boat 18ft Sea Ray with a I/O with 3.0L the plate got me down to under 1.5mph used it for years. ![]()
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