dozerII
Admiral
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I don't know about other Power Drive owners, but the only thing I disliked about it is the "Grip Glide" deploy system,which is a pain in the @#@$ to use. other than that it is a great trolling motor. Last year they updated the PD's with a Deploy Assist lever that makes putting the motor down for use very easy. After doing some research on the MK site and talking to one of their techs, I found out the only change is the lever. You can purchace the three parts needed to make the upgrade for around $25.00 and it takes about half an hour. Part #'s are Lever 2307201, Roll pin 2302750, and Spring 2302627.
To make the upgrade you have to remove the shaft, take the four screws out of the top cover, and remove, unplug the red and black wires under the blue insulation. Loosen the motor height clamp and pull the shaft and motor assembly out of the base. Using the right size punch tap out the roll pin holding in the old Grip Glide lever, the spring will fall out. When you look in the casting you will see an indent on one side where one end of the spring goes and a noth in the opposite side of the new handle. The hardest part of this whole job is holding the spring in while tapping in the new roll pin. I stood the base up on the end and leaned the other end against my chest, then set the spring housing notch, gravity will hold it there, then put your new lever in place making sure the other side of the spring goes in the notch in the handle. Now gently tap the roll pin in from right to left, once it goes throught the spring it will stay in position. Once you get the pin about half way through it will try to go off center because of the spring pressure, I put a small punch throught the left side hole and pryed the pin into alignment and tapped it the rest of the way through. Now re-assemble the rest of the motor in reverse order, don't forget the height clamp. Now all you have to do to deploy the motor is push down on the lever and it easily pushs out of the stow cradle. YAHOOO.
To make the upgrade you have to remove the shaft, take the four screws out of the top cover, and remove, unplug the red and black wires under the blue insulation. Loosen the motor height clamp and pull the shaft and motor assembly out of the base. Using the right size punch tap out the roll pin holding in the old Grip Glide lever, the spring will fall out. When you look in the casting you will see an indent on one side where one end of the spring goes and a noth in the opposite side of the new handle. The hardest part of this whole job is holding the spring in while tapping in the new roll pin. I stood the base up on the end and leaned the other end against my chest, then set the spring housing notch, gravity will hold it there, then put your new lever in place making sure the other side of the spring goes in the notch in the handle. Now gently tap the roll pin in from right to left, once it goes throught the spring it will stay in position. Once you get the pin about half way through it will try to go off center because of the spring pressure, I put a small punch throught the left side hole and pryed the pin into alignment and tapped it the rest of the way through. Now re-assemble the rest of the motor in reverse order, don't forget the height clamp. Now all you have to do to deploy the motor is push down on the lever and it easily pushs out of the stow cradle. YAHOOO.
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