Upgrade to Stainless Steel

[Capt Ralph]

I curently have an alumium prop on my boat now that works well but during my last outing of the season got a little dinged up. I want to upgrade to a stainless prop and keep the alum. prop for a spare. <br /><br />The boat is a 1993 18ft openbow, I/O, Merc 3.0 and Alpha I outdrive.<br /><br />My current alum prop has the follwing numbers stamped on it GP6606B and 48 78118 A40 17P. I assume the 17P means 17 pitch. I like the performace thus far with the alum prop and would like to get a stainless prop the same size. <br /><br />Can anyone tell me what the diameter of my current prop by the above numbers? The boat is in storage and unacessable till next month.<br /><br />This boat will be running at or above 5400ft in elevation, and we use it mostly for skiing and wakeboarding <br /><br />Thanks!!<br />-CR

 

[gatorred]

Re: Upgrade to Stainless Steel

try prop section of shop iboat's for new prop on pricing of it too

 

[Capt Ralph]

Re: Upgrade to Stainless Steel

Thanks gatorred, <br />I alreday checked those out and the pricing looked pretty good. One of my buddies reccomened the Siletto brand, which I didn't see here on i-boats. I just have to figure out what diameter.....I may have to wait till next month.

 

[Dhadley]

Re: Upgrade to Stainless Steel

Your prop is probably a 14 1/4" diameter if its a 3 blade, which we're sure it is. Don't get too carried away about diameter on a sterndrive. It's really too much involved to raise the X dimension for a larger diameter.<br /><br />Most of the props built for sterndrives like yours will stay in that 14 1/4" range. A 4 blade may drop to 13 3/4". <br /><br />A Stiletto is a very good choice.

 

[gatorred]

Re: Upgrade to Stainless Steel

try this place www.propline.com stick with normal type of prop in ss i have a bass boat prop are real fact when running a jack plate, like turbo 2x2 4 blade prop