WVfishnfool
Well-known member
Problem you're having is a spun hub. You'll have to take or ship your prop to a prop repair shop. If you take it to a marine dealer that doesn't do prop repair they are just going to ship it to a prop repair shop and charge you more being the middle man. Basically the hub in your prop is set in rubber which is pressed in to the prop with a 40-60 ton press. Reason these are done that way is so when you hit something solid with your prop it spins the hub instead of breaking a blade off or worse completely destroying the prop beyond use which can still happen if you hit rock, concrete, etc. hard enuf and fast enuf. But with a spun hub you can still limp the boat back in as you have experienced by still being able to run the engine just not at WOT. The rubber pressed in hub was an improvement over the shear pin style because if you have a shear pin you can not use the motor at all until you replace the pin. And as a lot of us old timers know trying to work on a broke down boat out on the water is a PITA. Either find a prop repair shop close to you or find one on the internet and check with them to see how much it is to press in a new hub and re-build your prop. Judging by the pic you posted as beat up as that prop is I'd have it rebuilt. It should be under $100 I would think to have it done.
