Andrew,
I decided to take Brett's advice from a couple of years ago and change my prop to the Acme 515 (I think). I have had more trouble in getting the old stainless prop off that I ever expected. I bought the Pro-Puller but turns out, there isn't enough space between the prop and the strut to fit the puller in. Finally the shop and I together got the prop off with the Pro-puller that we modified, a second clamp to keep the pro-puller in place, heat and lots of hard hits with a large hammer. When we got the stainless prop off, I installed the Acme only to find out the space between the prop and the strut was now about 0.030". I was leaving for scout camp to teach all week so we ran it as is. I do like the new prop but one of the boys ran it through some rocks and bent the heck out of it the second day of camp. We ran it the rest of the week but over 30 mph, it roared. I have now had a machinist, machine down the front of the prop base until the base meets the fins (probably wrong words) and will have the Acme done likewise when I get it back from the shop (this was Bill from Acme advice, I have driven him crazy over this deal) and also ordered a hamonic puller to pull the Acme off due to the no clearance problem. We skied with it last Thursday and I had bent the fins somewhat back into place again with Bill's ok. As I went to put the boat away today, I took a chance and went by your ex-dealer hear in Lubbock (I still think you current dealer is a joke after the problems I had last summer) and we used a chain puller to pull the Acme. I put the stainless back on after that and the modified pro-puller pulls it back off quite nicely now that we have machined the prop hub (or base) AND the pro-puller. We will see what the Acme allows when I get it back. The bottom line seems to be however that the engine in my Tige seem to be mounted about an inch too far forward resulting in very little room for the prop behind the strut. You make recall I have one of the Marine Power USA engines you "tested" in 98 on your sponsored boats. I like the engine, but the time, money and effort I have spent on trying to change props has really got me frustrated now. How much room is there supposed to be between the prop and the strut?
Marine Power tells me you are using their engines now. Is that correct??
David
I decided to take Brett's advice from a couple of years ago and change my prop to the Acme 515 (I think). I have had more trouble in getting the old stainless prop off that I ever expected. I bought the Pro-Puller but turns out, there isn't enough space between the prop and the strut to fit the puller in. Finally the shop and I together got the prop off with the Pro-puller that we modified, a second clamp to keep the pro-puller in place, heat and lots of hard hits with a large hammer. When we got the stainless prop off, I installed the Acme only to find out the space between the prop and the strut was now about 0.030". I was leaving for scout camp to teach all week so we ran it as is. I do like the new prop but one of the boys ran it through some rocks and bent the heck out of it the second day of camp. We ran it the rest of the week but over 30 mph, it roared. I have now had a machinist, machine down the front of the prop base until the base meets the fins (probably wrong words) and will have the Acme done likewise when I get it back from the shop (this was Bill from Acme advice, I have driven him crazy over this deal) and also ordered a hamonic puller to pull the Acme off due to the no clearance problem. We skied with it last Thursday and I had bent the fins somewhat back into place again with Bill's ok. As I went to put the boat away today, I took a chance and went by your ex-dealer hear in Lubbock (I still think you current dealer is a joke after the problems I had last summer) and we used a chain puller to pull the Acme. I put the stainless back on after that and the modified pro-puller pulls it back off quite nicely now that we have machined the prop hub (or base) AND the pro-puller. We will see what the Acme allows when I get it back. The bottom line seems to be however that the engine in my Tige seem to be mounted about an inch too far forward resulting in very little room for the prop behind the strut. You make recall I have one of the Marine Power USA engines you "tested" in 98 on your sponsored boats. I like the engine, but the time, money and effort I have spent on trying to change props has really got me frustrated now. How much room is there supposed to be between the prop and the strut?
Marine Power tells me you are using their engines now. Is that correct??
David
so I have bought two different types of prop pullers. One slips in behind the prop, when there is enough room and one is a harmonic puller, a rather low tech piece of steel that I think I will try out tonight now that I have the new prop milled enough to clear the shaft strut.
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