New Trolling Motor

**badbrad** · 12-25-2008, 08:39 PM

Well I am extremely proud to be a new owner of a Minn Kota Terrova Trolling Motor. I had told my wife that I'd planned on trying to save up enough money to purchase one by May or June when I started trolling crankbaits. I'm a really lucky guy, she conspired with the rest of the family, worked a bunch of overtime and they all chipped in and surpised me this Christmas with one.

I'm very excited to get it mounted on the my boat but just wanted to see if I could get some input from some of you who already have them in use.

Anything special I need to know about the install that maybe you guys found out through trial and error. Just looking through the instruction manuel, it doesn't look like it will be to difficult.

I have the 80lb thrust with auto-pilot feature and will be mounting it on an 18ft. fiberglass boat. My only concern from first glance is the overall length of the shaft itself. Does it's length become a problem when stowing the TM. Also, I've read where several have had difficulty with deploying the TM, but it's advertised to have an easy stow and deploy feature. Is this really an issue or not?

**hotmod** · 12-25-2008, 08:48 PM

Congrats on a super Christmas present. You sure must have caught a "Keeper" when you found your wife.
You better be nice & find her some jewelery! LOL

**Barnacle Bill** · 12-25-2008, 09:05 PM

You got a good motor. You may or may not have a problem with deploying. If you do its an easy fix on the newer motors. Later on down the road you can add the Co-pilot if you want to.

**badbrad** · 12-25-2008, 10:11 PM

hotmod, your right I do have a good one. Good ones like her are hard to find. She has always been supportive of my addiction to Crappie fishing.

What's involved with adding the co-pilot feature, and what extras does having it enable you to do over just auto-pilot.

**rockmike** · 12-26-2008, 07:31 AM

I have the 80# Terrova. Really like the motor, except I have to give it a good kick to get it to deploy----Stows good. I'd get the copilot when you can.

**beagle man** · 12-26-2008, 11:16 AM

congrats on the terrova I like mine real well, just be sure the green light is off when you stow the unit. or it will shake loose and fall. as for deploying,I have a little problem but I usually spray a little wd 40 on the shaft and all is well there were a couple post on how to adjust the tension but the digrams did not look like my terrova, so couldnt use them. a search might help on adjusting the motor... good luck oh and no problem with the mounting I put mine on a bass tracker pro crappie 175 and it is not in the way later man

**Barnacle Bill** · 12-26-2008, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by badbrad

hotmod, your right I do have a good one. Good ones like her are hard to find. She has always been supportive of my addiction to Crappie fishing.

What's involved with adding the co-pilot feature, and what extras does having it enable you to do over just auto-pilot.

Co-pilot is very easy to install. It gives you remoted control. You can even take the pedal off and store it if you want.

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