arkansasnative
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Long story short i got three trolling motors for free... One is really too old to mess with, the other was a 90's model minn kota im guessing and i ran it over with my boat trailer (i do stupid things sometimes), and one was pretty new minn kota, just a few years old. Well as you probably guessed, none worked! Using a circuit tester i hooked the two new ones up and got the one that i ran over with a boat trailer (mostly plastic damage on the head) to work on 3 forward settings and 1 reverse (Very happy i had a motor that at least sorta worked!). The newest one had nothing but it was getting power thru the head so i figured it had to be in the foot. Today my curiosity got the best of me and i took the foot apart and this is what i found!
I'm gonna try to clean it up and see if i can get power... does anyone know what i could use to get rid of the corrosion? It has a sort of liquid feel and none of it is really dry so it shouldn't be that hard to get off. I've heard mixed reviews on using brake cleaner and then blowing it out with an air compressor?
I'm gonna try to clean it up and see if i can get power... does anyone know what i could use to get rid of the corrosion? It has a sort of liquid feel and none of it is really dry so it shouldn't be that hard to get off. I've heard mixed reviews on using brake cleaner and then blowing it out with an air compressor?