Thread: Dragging buckets.

Originally Posted by Wannabe...

It is possible with an adjustment of the idle screw on the carb. Just depends on if it's set on the high side now. Last thing you want is to lower it to the point of having trouble with it dying at idle. This is a job for a mechanic though. Carb screws take much big heapum medicine man to adjust properly and incense and peace pipes are usually involved.

Wannabe...

Dang! Is DD so out of date with the times that he is still running a carbed motor? :D

haven't looked at it. 2005 model, 2 stroke 125 HP merc is all I know. hehe

It seems to be idled correctly to me.

I would suggest a trolling plate on your big motor rather than try ing to pull a drift sock. The boat can be hard to control with the sock dragging behind and most socks dont float when the rope breaks or comes loose. For confirmation on this drop Tlow a line and he can fill you in.

Just my .02

Originally Posted by Slabologist

I would suggest a trolling plate on your big motor rather than try ing to pull a drift sock. The boat can be hard to control with the sock dragging behind and most socks dont float when the rope breaks or comes loose. For confirmation on this drop Tlow a line and he can fill you in.

Just my .02

Good point Slabo, a float harness helps if a sock comes loose.

socks are cheap either. I'll stick with my buckets over all of them. I had the plate on my other boat and lost 4 or 5 MPH top end and some out of the hole torque

You could do like I did and put a kicker motor on there it works great for cranks and don't use near as much gas

Originally Posted by Slabologist

You could do like I did and put a kicker motor on there it works great for cranks and don't use near as much gas

What HP kicker are you using?