Been one heck of a week and a half.  Bought the motorguide wireless 46 lb thrust motor got home yesterday after 60 mile round trip to bps and get home to find out that bracket mount is to wide to mount on front bow of boat.  Would have to drill holes into plate and didnt want to  take any chances with warranty and them coming back and saying I had altered the motor.  Went back for another 60 mile round trip and get back and mount a 54lb thrust motor guide on the front of boat and look at the way they do the height adjustment and it doesnt make any sense.  You literally have to take trolling motor out of bracket and slide it up and down and take the chance of dropping the darn thing in the water.  Needless to say I am besides myself and ready to throw in the towel.  

Bought 160 dollars worth of 50 amp circuit breakers and 120 worth of 6 gauge wire .  Running the front trolling motor on 6 gauge and the back with circuit breakers and big foot  with the regular trolling motor wires.  Need to buy more 12 gauge for front eagle finder and back eagle 480 finder.  Extremely frustrated about trolling motor.  Had the 40 lb all terrain minn kota and it burnt up but had the adjustable know that you could slide up and down for differnent depths.  Am I missing anything on this motorguide..should be easier to change depths.  Anyones suggestions could just save ole buzzbait.  lol.

Buzzbait. I have the M/G 4300; it is the same as the 46#. They just upped the # by 3 it looks like. Anyway, they both work the same if I remember right. To adjust the hgt, off water or on water, is very simple. Pull the motor up out of the water and lay on the mtg bracket. There is a "unlocked" position (kind of cocked at an angle) and then there is the flat layed out "locked positon". Place it in the first "unlocked" position and then loosen the knob that holds the small trap door that clamps the top part of the shaft to the mount (In the locked positon, this is very hard to do). With this knob loosened a little bit, you can adjust the height up or down for about eight inches and this loosening also allows you to turn the upper head where the cable come out. When adjusting this shaft/head, you will notice the pedal of the foot control moving up or down just a little. This will allow you to place the foot control pedal in a desired positon for comfortable operating of t/m when you have the motor aimed straight ahead. If you are going straight and the pedal is not comfortable, follow the above procedures of loosening the clamp, turning the shaft one way or other (experiment) and try to hit a good position. Retighten clamp using the knobbed bolt and you should be happily on your way. If you need more adjustment, then you need to take the top off and adjust the pinion gear. (Do this off the water-no lost parts.) AT NO TIME DO you have any thing loosened to the point where it will be completely apart to where you would loose something overboard. Just don't forget to tighten the clamp before placing motor back in the down position. Practice this before you put boat in water. Standing on the ground makes it much easier and failsafe. ha It is not hard to do from the boat platform either.

Tight Lines Bob

Thanks Bob for the input..54 lb has plenty of power..lol