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Mud Motor Tips | Oiling Your Mudskipper Thai Long Tail Mud Motor Shaft
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Күн бұрынOiling instead of filling your shaft full of moisture and dirt trapping grease is the best way to maintain a traditional Thai long tail mud motor shaft with Wood bushings. Mudskipper and Swamprunner shafts run wood but have improved designs with polyethylene based Bushings
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE
It is very important that you let all of the oil drain completely out of your shaft let it sit for a few days before you bring it out to the water to prevent polluting of our rivers and streams.
Also oil in your shaft is something you do only a few times a year.
@BigDaddy-yp4mi 2 жыл бұрын
I have a zerk at the top. Pump till grease comes out at the propeller. I do it every 15-20 hours of running. I have NEVER had ANYTHING other than grease come out. No oil, no water, no dirt, no nothing. Completely cleaned out the shaft when replacing a bearing I thought was going bad and the inside of the shaft still looks brand new as well as the shaft. Grease works dude, sorry.
@MudMotorsMax 2 жыл бұрын
And yours is a Mudskipper? These don’t have bearings they have bushings I’m not sure you know what you’re talking about. Unless you were running and completely clean water there’s no way that these were completely clean… sorry dude
@MudMotorsMax 2 жыл бұрын
Grease does work but it also does trap debris in your shaft which is fine for some people this just an alternative. Also mudskippers do not come with grease zerks. Swamprunner is the company that told me oil is what people are using for lubrication and cleaning out the shaft
@jordanbowers9268 9 ай бұрын
I’m having a problem with my 212 predator engine pull starting in cold weather. It’s very tough to pull and doesn’t give the motor enough rotation to start. When the shaft is off I have no problems whatsoever. Do you have any tips on how to use these long tail motor in cold weather? I’m a duck hunter from Ohio. It gets cold and I need a motor to work in cold weather. It’s a beaverdam long tail. I took a bunch of grease out as I think I put too much into the coupler and it’s easier but still not able to start in 40 degree weather.
@jeremybahm2163 3 жыл бұрын
The guy that I bought my Swamp Runner from told me to mix Lucas Oil Treatment an 80 90 gear lube mix 50/50 seems to work really well not saying anything bad about your way just saying that is what was suggested to me from my dealer
@MudMotorsMax 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent this works great too
@MudMotorsMax 3 жыл бұрын
This guy from swamp runner told me this is what they are doing now and have been doing in Thai land
@SugarRiverOutdoors 3 жыл бұрын
Mark your shaft and your coupler with a scribe or a punch of some sort to help keep your Scag timed when removing your shaft. I've really only ever done this at the end of every year.
@MudMotorsMax 3 жыл бұрын
Great advice
@SugarRiverOutdoors 3 жыл бұрын
@@MudMotorsMax it also helps you tell with a quick glance at the boat launch if your shaft is pulling out of the coupler or if it is turning on you. Sometimes if you don't get the two bolts tight enough it doesn't take much of a bang on a log or a rock to spin the shaft in the coupler.
@MudMotorsMax 3 жыл бұрын
@@SugarRiverOutdoors I’ve almost lost a shaft it’s spooky!!! I looked and the skeg was pointing up and the prop was facing down
@tobberfutooagain2628 Жыл бұрын
A lubricated shaft is a good thing…..
@clayton203 3 жыл бұрын
Good advice here,,thanks ,,I haven’t invested yet,,but fixn to buy one for 22hp predator,,I have a shortail crawfish model go devil,,it’s 58inches,,getting 18 mph 1542,heavy alweld boat,,going across Lilly pads,,does them swamp runners blow out of the water a lot,,that go devil 58inch shaft,,it will go about 40 yards and blow out,,it’s so short it does not ride at the top of water like them long shaft rigs do,,does yours blow out a lot,,
@MudMotorsMax 3 жыл бұрын
No you can get them dialed and just write it to where they are very manageable the swamp runners. I was able to run my mudskipper with just a couple of fingers but I know that the swamp runners and the beaver dams are just like the Mudskipper’s but even better
@aleemrahim6846 Жыл бұрын
Hoover dam has grease zeros as well, can I put oil in also and how much ?
@donovanswift5010 Жыл бұрын
Do this instead of grease?