Banged up prop

[Chomper]

Hey guys need some advice. I banged up my prop a bit coming in at low tide yesterday and I was wondering if I could still run it that way it is or if I should just get another one. I am just running out to live line and slow troll. The one blade is bent some but the rest just got chipped.


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[tsubaki]

Get a new one and look around to see what it costs to straighten that one out (if possible) and use as a spare.

[Skools Out]

get a stainless one this go around

[THEFERMANATOR]

Shoot, I've run em missing 2 blades before just to get in. I wouldn't run it on plane, but for trolling you would be fine.

[Chomper]

Thanks guys, I would like to go with stainless but I have been stocking up on trolling gear and I don't think my pocketbook can handle a new stainless this year.

[Stillrunning]

I just had one done and they charged me $75 and I would not run on that prop as its not good for the gears. I think a bent prop is one of those things that some people can get away without ever fixing and some people pay the price for not getting it fixed.

[nymack66]

I have a 14 x 19 stainless make me an offer and its yours ...

[Stillrunning]

I have a 14 x 19 stainless make me an offer and its yours ...

I'm intrested in that but I'm not sure what size prop is on my boat.

[RABBITFISH]

A bent or damaged prop, even if it just a little dinged may be out of balance...Running out of balance stresses the lower unit propshaft wearing the seals and bearings, a little at a time, until one day it won't work right any more, the shop advises a rebuild or complete lower unit........=$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$
Fix the small stuff before it can become the big stuff......Most of the Propeller shops that I deal with have an abundant supply of used and re-built stainless props at fraction of the cost of new, and they will allow some swap back and forth until you get one that fits for you...Repairs on a dinged up stainless are relativly inexpensive and if done by a good shop will perform like new......

Never tust you life, or your boat,to second class equipment if you can avoid it...

[boatnluvr]

Had it been stainless, then he'd be replacing more than a prop. My theory has always been to stay aluminum if I am running in shallows or rocky areas.

[nipper]

I have heard that too Boatnluvr. Aluminum will give whereas stainless will not as easily. Thus, with aluminum you get a severely boogered prop if you hit something, but less (if any) damage to the gearcase.

[RABBITFISH]

Do you guys hit a lot of rocks in your area?

[Chomper]

No, it is not normally rocky but I found the one rock that was there.

That's my Luck.

[bassarama]

Stainless for me as well.

I've dented my SS prop a few times, nothing major just a few dents here and there. An aluminum prop would have been destroyed or badly damaged like that one.

[Blu_Lunch]

I did a bit of roto-tilling with a 19p stainless on our Sea Ray it cost 150 to repair it............

[Hammerhead]

Thanks guys, I would like to go with stainless but I have been stocking up on trolling gear and I don't think my pocketbook can handle a new stainless this year.


Find a used one. I saw one at a marine styled swap meet I was 2 seconds too late for,...another guy paid 10.oo for it.

Also prop shops sometimes have reworked ones the owner never picked up.
By all means tho',...stainless is the way to go.