Trolling Motor Took a Crap on me!

[SethColeman]

Dropped in the water sunday and put trolling motor down, and hit the pedal. Worked for about 4 seconds and just quit. The relay clicks in the head, and all connections are good, and batteries are charged. The motor itself will not spin. This is a motorguide FW-FB 71# 24 vlt trolling motor. Any help would be appreciated. In case I need to get repaired who all repairs trolling motors around here? I have called John Swallows numerous times and left messages with no return calls, looking for someone else to try if needed thanks.

 

[skinny water]

Sand Hill boats in dayton

 

[porthos33]

Keep trying John, I think I have another number for him. The guy I took it to cost me an extra 350 for wiring it wrong. He does it for pretty cheap too, just hard to get a hold of sometimes. He gets off at 3 I think so start calling from 3:15 to 9:00pm.

H-336-5438 and I'll pm you the other number I have

 

[thepoolguy]

Seth call John Swallows after 5 30 leave him a message. He will call you back it might be the next day.

 

[fischnrod]

Why don't you and me just tear into it and see what those motorguides are made of ?

 

[SethColeman]

Ok rod, what about tomorrow?

 

[dryhorn2]

Pull motor cap off and drain water, let dry out and try it again.

 

[SethColeman]

dryhorn2 - 5/19/2014 5:38 PM

Pull motor cap off and drain water, let dry out and try it again.

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Already took top off, not water or apparent issues.

 

[BulletTJ]

If you don't know what you are doing I wouldn't recommend tearing into it yourself. I cant count the people that took a small cheap repair and made it a very expensive repair. I work with John Swallows. I will tell him you are trying to get in touch with him. PM me you phone number and he will call you tomorrow. He works a day shift job and repairs trollers in the evenings and weekends.

 

[SethColeman]

Tim, pm sent.

 

[hippi97]

If you can`t get ahold of john bring it to me..

 

[digitalcb]

<font size="4">Tear into it:</font> There's only one way it will go and be right</p>

Get a test light and tear into it. That's the only way to learn. You may tear something up every now and then but the few hundred I've blown over the years doesn't compare to the thousands and thousands I've saved over the years.</p>

I retired at age 53 as a result of fixing things others couldn't or wouldn't ; often things I'd never seen before. </p>

Once I was stumped on reassembling an eccentric throw for a scrapyard shaker table drive and asked Bob Madaris if he knew how it went back together. Bob looked at me and said "There's only one way it can go and be right" and then walked away.
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I thought of Bob every time I started a project after that.</p>

Rule #1: It's usually a grounding problem</p>

Rule #2: Refer to Rule 1. </p>

You know your ground to the battery is good because your relay's are working. Check the ground from the Motor.</p>

Try it out of the water. Does the Motor hum? Does the motor housing get warm. Uh-Oh
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[fischnrod]

SethColeman - 5/19/2014 5:02 PM

Ok rod, what about tomorrow?

Sorry Seth I just seen your post. Have you got it fixed yet?

 

[SethColeman]

We found 1 of the brushes were broken. Hopefully will get it reassembled tomorrow to test.