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<blockquote data-quote="DaleH" data-source="post: 451974" data-attributes="member: 15636"><p>I did not try your OB in the T-Point selector, only the Merc one. Regardless, you want a much lower pitch (I'd say at least 2" lower) with big fat blades, 4 if you can do it. </p><p></p><p>Once when I blew up a big V6 OB a friend gave me a 90hp OB motor to use until the new motor arrived - hey it was toona season! - since it could use the same rigging, fuel and control system. Off with the old dead one and on with the new 'old' one in just a few hours, very NASCAR pit crew-like operation. I found a 4-blade, big-bladed low pitch "houseboat or barge boat" prop and threw it on there. Son of a gun, but that old 90hp V4 would just get the boat up to slow planing speed around 14mph ... and I still made it offshore ... slowest boat in the fleet!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaleH, post: 451974, member: 15636"] I did not try your OB in the T-Point selector, only the Merc one. Regardless, you want a much lower pitch (I'd say at least 2" lower) with big fat blades, 4 if you can do it. Once when I blew up a big V6 OB a friend gave me a 90hp OB motor to use until the new motor arrived - hey it was toona season! - since it could use the same rigging, fuel and control system. Off with the old dead one and on with the new 'old' one in just a few hours, very NASCAR pit crew-like operation. I found a 4-blade, big-bladed low pitch "houseboat or barge boat" prop and threw it on there. Son of a gun, but that old 90hp V4 would just get the boat up to slow planing speed around 14mph ... and I still made it offshore ... slowest boat in the fleet! [/QUOTE]
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