I learned something today. I never knew you could tune a trolling motor. Thanks for the tip!

I did this on my 24lb watersnake yesterday, while i was at it i decided to open it up and add some lube to the bearings and vaseline to the o rings for better water resistance. When i took the first part of the nose off, there was a long black coarse hair left in there wrapped around the armature and crossing the o ring seals obviously left in there by the person who assembled it in the factory 😂 Anyway after removing the hair and adding some lube, i reassembled it to the factory marks. Then tested and all is good. I then turned the motor on and rotated the middle housing and far out the motor sounded like it gained a heap more speed. I rotated it about 10mm around until it wouldnt turn further then locked it up there. Cant wait to test it on the water!

Awesome tip! I have an old Power Plus Motorguide 30 lb Thrust I plan to cut shaft for a Kayak side mount project so will check if this fine tune applies on it.

Thank you for this, lol I had to pull motor out and fix contacts. This fixed my tuning issue

I actually have an aluminum boat instead of a yak but find your videos useful for what I do especially your trolling motor mods so im subscribed

Already liked and subscribed. This would work perfect with my Coleman Crawdad boat.

Really good well done and informative

That’s awesome, any lubrication necessary for below the sheer pin?

Man out here setting the timing on a trolling motor 😅

it's because you are moving the two bolts away from the magnets inside the middle section. if the bolts are touching the magnets it's going to degrade the magnetic field and reduce the efficiency of the motor.

I've read comments that if you mess around with the brushes like that your motor won't last ! I don't know for sure but I'm just saying .... I'll have to talk with some electric motor specialist about it ! LoL ! I'm going to tune mine up a tad , and see how she does ! Thanks for the video man , much appreciated 👍

Nice job

Dear Sir. I own a haswing osapian 55 lb and i want your expertise what can i do to increase the speed to my ocean prowler trident 15 kayak.In 5 scale in calm sea the speed is 4.2 knots.Can i change the propeller with different pitch to give me more speed?Than You so match.

Can this be done to all minkota trolling motors? I have a turbo 35 it's a 27lb thrust. It's very old and slow.

can you put a higher screw ratio prop on a smaller boat, trading pushing power for top speed, say a motor meant for a big pontoon, pushing a kayak or canoe to say 10mph, though i guess much of the low speed energy is going to the water sticking to the boat

Iv never had a pin shear it always just takes the prop out 😂 thinking it’s probably a drive pin. Either way GOOD WORK!!

am looking at elec outboard as back up .. but was wondering could you use an aluminium prop

What an awesome video AND giveaway

Hello Mr. John! I have a question for you! I bought a 12.6 Newport vessel inflatable boat, and I am looking to buy a out motor for it! and I do not care what brand it is,,, as I listen to you on (Tune Your Trolling Motor) on your channel,,, and you mention that you have so many trolling motors back of your Store Place!! That I am wondering if you have some outboard motors too, that are in a very good conditions that you might want to sell?? so far i have looked so many small motors: that they very expensive for my wallet!! what I am looking is a short shaft engine, to take me to the ocean about a 1/4 mile away from the beach, and able to return back to safety.. I would like to thank you so much for your information and thanks for the instruction's on how to keep up with your trolley maintenance. have a good day, Sincerely Max.

The way to tune a brushed DC motor is to advance or retard the motor brushes in relation to the housing magnets. You have to turn the main body or the brush housing. Basically the easiest thing to do to tune a trolling motor is to turn the main body of the motor not the end plate.

I need me a different trolling motor mine is a motorGuide T30 Power Plus I just want a bigger motor If it's windy out Mine just wont cut the mustard 30lbs thrust is just to small I hope your contest is still going on

If I do this it will not damage the seal?

Yessir, Drive Pin is the correct term

If you take apart the bottom unit, you will see that those are the bolt that hold the bottom three units housing pieces together, and that's it. There is no mechanism that makes it go slower or faster. This is snake oil talk and that is it.

How much difference if any was noticed?

Do you mind me asking a question sir?

I've seen several of these "tuning" videos. All of them are tuned by ear under no load. Faster no-load speed does not translate to more torque or thrust in the water & the declared "success" seems premature. I'd like to see a "before" measurement of speed under load and amperage. Then make the adjustment and measure both speed and amps again under same conditions. Plenty of guys burn up their chainsaws tuning the carb at max speed under no-load. They inadvertently make the fuel mixture too lean which overheats the engine when under load. The only way to tune a chainsaw is at full speed while cutting wood.

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