I have the 80# 45 inch shaft. I think the majority of these motors don't have any problems......we don't hear complaints from people that have working motors....LOL. The reason I say that is I have done a ton of searching for problems with these motors....you just don't see that many problems when searching fishing forums. Plus in checking with many folks I know that have these motors it seems the failure rate is about 10 percent.

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