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Ran Transducer cable up the shaft of Power Drive

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Inter-twine the shield wire and solder together.

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Slide heat shrink over the splice and shrink using a lighter.

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Wrap the cable around the inside of the head of the trolling motor.

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Attach the top to the head of the trolling motor.  Use a #2 phillips head screw driver to tighten the head of the trolling motor.  The cable was run out a square hole in the head.  Coil the transducer cable and tie wrap it every other coil to the power cord that goes to the mount.

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Give the JB Weld a day to dry and you are done.  Here is a picture of the final product.

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Are you bold enough to take on this project?  If you can drill and solder, I think you can do it too!

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I didn't realize you can cut and splice a transducer cable back together?  

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I did mine a little differently.

1. Don't check on the integrity of your Power drive removable mount for a few years.

2. Tow someone behind boat on a tube and cut across some wakes to give them a good ride.  

3. Get bow of boat really jumping, jumping enough to cause removable Power drive mount to break.

4. Watch Power drive motor bounce up and off front deck and sink into 40 feet of water.

5. Go out and buy a cable drive.

;)

Nice job on the tranducerr mount.  You just saved a bunch of guys a bunch of money.

Thanks,

Tom D.

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Carp,

        Now that is funny!  I don't have the removeable mount, I have it firmly bolted to the boat.  I will say this......don't let your buddy pull in the motor for you.....My partner pulled up the trolling motor for me.  We took off....When I hit the first wake, the motor fell down and we both got soaked with spray!  He didn't get it latched......He has a cable steer motor. ;)

        I am glad if this helps somebody modify theirs.  I friend of mine modified his 4 years ago and I just copied what he did with a couple slight modifications.  He drilled into the cone instead of the shaft and didn't use the silicone.  

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This is an 18 year old thread. I don't think he'll be responding.

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