How Bent is Bent

Hot4Teacher · 11-19-2006, 10:32 PM

I recently bought my current boat and was looking at the prop today. By clamping an allen wrench to the splash plate and turning the prop I noticed that there is about an 1/8th of an inch difference front and back between the blades on my 4 blade Bravo prop.
Is this far enough off to be a problem? The prop seems to perform fine as far as RPM goes but the top speed and cruising speed seems slower than it should be.

throttleup · 11-20-2006, 07:49 AM

What you measured is not unusual for a stock cast prop. If you are satisfied with the performance and don't notice unusual or excessive vibration it should be fine the way it is.

32 caliber · 11-26-2006, 12:48 AM

This would qualify for " how bent is bent "

throttleup · 11-27-2006, 09:13 AM

Ouch!

Julie

32 caliber · 11-27-2006, 03:10 PM

This would have been the first season I made it though without the props being trashed, it happened on my last time before storing it ! @#$% &%*$

bbladesprops · 11-27-2006, 06:05 PM

Sorry to see and hear Jim!

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Take care.