New to posting but check the site daily and have learned from you all. The question I have is while trailering the boat should you put the motor or motors in gear or leave in neutral. Have done some research and the responses are split. What do y’all do? Thanks.
I’ve always left mine in neutral. Never heard of leaving them in gear.
I watched a video awhile back that stated shifting into gear while the motor is off causes stress on cables and other parts (assuming its not electonically controled). I can’t attest to the validity of this but it sounded reasonable.
If it is neutral, the prop spins and makes it looks like the boat is pushing the truck. How cool is that.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
Before I can answer this question I need to know what size motors you have and how many.
23 says you only need 20 baits for a day of fishing.
2-250 Yamaha four strokes and I trim them down while trailering. The guy i bought the boat from two years ago said that was how he trailered it. Seen some forums stating if the motors are trimmed up the props will not spin. Just happen to fish a few weeks back and my auto mechanic buddy was following us down in his truck and he was saying that can’t be good. But I’m assuming it’s getting lubed in neutral just didn’t know if lowered the life time of that oil or bearing for instance a 2-2 1/2 hour drive on the interstate going 70+ mph with the props free spooling.
Why would it not be good for the prop to spin?
23 says you only need 20 baits for a day of fishing.
that’s how i charge my batteries on my way to fish
If I’m posting, its because I’m sitting here at work, dreaming about fishing.
I have always trailered in neutral. There is no reason to believe that anything would tear up because the prop is spinning.
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You could always put a couple of bungees around the foot.
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Originally posted by 7csYou could always put a couple of bungees around the foot.
Because that wouldnt go wrong at all when you forget to take it off at the ramp.
Neutral is fine. Dont know if my props spin behind me or not, but can’t imagine that a prop doing what it was designed to be doing is bad
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Originally posted by CaptFritzWhy would it not be good for the prop to spin?
23 says you only need 20 baits for a day of fishing.
There’s a little piece of Fritz in each one of my pockets…
Neutral or if you like in gear, but I wouldn’t go to the trouble to put them in gear. With as slow as they will sometimes turn at freeway speeds foot gears are still getting lubed. Maybe if you were running from Florida to Maine it might not be a bad idea to put in gear.
Now if it was a piece of equipment on a lowboy with the exhausted turned to the wind spooling up the turbo that would be another matter. It doesn’t get any oil unless the engine is running.
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Originally posted by 7csYou could always put a couple of bungees around the foot.
Gorilla tape where the prop and lower unit come together. Or you could just spray WD 40 in that gap instead so that it will we so slick it can’t hurt anything.
I’ve always trailered in neutral just was curious if anyone has ever heard heard of anything different or problems that have occurred from doing this plus the weather has been so bad this week there was no reports getting posted but hope that’ll change next week weather seems to be looking better for next week and hope fully we can talk about fish pics instead. Thanks
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Originally posted by MuddyWaterFisherGorilla tape where the prop and lower unit come together. Or you could just spray WD 40 in that gap instead so that it will we so slick it can’t hurt anything.
The prop spinning is moving the gears in the lower unit…WD40 is going to accomplish nothing.
Tape, on the other hand, would prevent what OP is worried about, but at what expense? Is it worth it? What happens when you launch and neglect to remove the tape?
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I’ve always kept it in neutral and I’ve never heard of anyone doing anything else. One thing that always perplexes me is how a lot of people don’t have or use some sort of “motor support” while trailering. It really blows my mind when I see a boat going down the road with the motor trimmed all the way up and then turned all the way to one side or the other. To me, that just comes across as lazy. By simply using the boat’s hydraulics, isn’t that placing unnecessary pressures on the motor? Granted, I only have one motor but if my boat isn’t in the water, I always use the “motor toter” to support the motor.
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