prop test, second time around

[Doug Durako]

Bondo and others:<br /><br />If you followed our earlier discussions regarding my torque-shift prop from Land & Sea, you knew I was having trouble getting the thing set right.<br /><br />I called Jim Sullivan from Land & Sea and told him all about it (you can read all the posts from a couple of months ago). Bondo---you helped a great deal but something was still wrong---we threw a spring and a cam was stuck in one blade.<br /><br />Jim told me to send him the prop, and a letter with my boat specs, and a description of the problem.<br /><br />They replaced the blades, gave me new cams and springs and sent it back. We just spent four days in the Ozarks and ran it for nearly 20 hours---tubing, wakeboarding, and just crusing.<br /><br />I love it. We hit 38 mph (GPS) in about 4 seconds when you put the hammer down hard. Top end is a respectable 60.1 mph (GPS) at 4800 rpm---that's in the Ozarks where you really can't find smooth water. Boat easily popped out two tubes with adult riders and 6 people in the boat.<br /><br />Top end is still not where it would be with my fixed pitch SS blade, but I think I can get close. They just put a little too much cup on the leading edge of the Torque Shift blades and I can't trim all the way up.<br /><br />You have to be persistent to get these things to work right for your rig, but it is worth it.

 

[Bondo]

Re: prop test, second time around

AALLL RRIIIGGHTTT...!!!!!!!!!<br />Another Believer.......<br />Are you blowing out at high trim ????<br />Mine will throw 60' rooster tails before it blows out,+ Shifts for me.... <br />Once aired out, my fishing barge drives more like a Plane....<br />I finally found my new ones at the backdoor the other day....<br /><br />A Dead-Blow Hammer will fix that Cup Problem....

 

[guylain]

Re: prop test, second time around

Ineed to know your number of land and sea prop. I thing i have too(2 ) model , its 962 or 926. And have a 926 and i look to try a 962 because my boat loose 10 mph top en speed. I have a 22' wellcraft wiht a 460cu ford, cobra strendrive.Thans for your sucgestion.

 

[Doug Durako]

Re: prop test, second time around

Guy---the Land and Sea number is (603) 329-5645---no numbers stamped on mine that I can see.<br /><br />Bondo---not blowing out at high trim, but the boat is bucking and porpoising so much I can hardly hold the wheel when trimmed about half as far as I used to go with my fixed blade. I've got to experiment some more with it, but the torque shift seems to like to be trimmed down on my rig---I can only bump it a couple times with the trim button and that does not seem to make much difference on top speed.