matt c

Had decent luck on the mighty Staunton last night, landed 5 stripers between 4-8 pounds in a short amount of time. Had another 20 or so hits that didn't get hooked up. Threw a Zara Spook and they were hitting it everywhere.

Here is the response I recieved from Briggs customer service... Matt, It is normal for the propeller to turn in neutral. This is from friction in the gear case as the forward and reverse gears are always turning the shift lever simply engages or disengages either gear. The propeller should stop turning while in neutral or turn considerably less while in the water as there will be a load against it. Matt Buff Technical Service Representative

Took the motor out on its maiden voyage friday night, it perfromed very well. A little loud and it vibrates but not terribly bad. Pushed my 14 foot jon boat loaded with 2 200lb men, tackle, trolling motor and deep cycle battery everywhere we needed to go at fairly good rate.

Did some cat fishing friday night on Sandy....fished the far side coves from the boat dock and didn't get a bite all night, used chicken and deer livers. Ran into a guy at the boat dock while we were pulling out and they had aboat full of fish, they caught all thiers on the drop off from the flat next to the dam.

aaaahhhh ..... so there is no true Nuetral?

Thanks Top

Hey Guys...I live about 45 minutes from Sandy and Briery and fish Sandy quite a bit. I only fished Briery one time last year and found it too difficult to learn in the short amount of time I had to be on the water but am planning on heading back soon. We fish Sandy for Bass and Cats pretty hard, Lots of channels and am starting to catch a couple of flatheads about every time we go!

I don't know but it does not appear to be....I guess what I'm not sure of is the shifter not working and skipping over nuetral or is there a certain ammount of power going to the prop in nuetral. Would the vibration (and it does vibrate horribly) emit a harmonic that would cause the prop to turn ant that fast of a rate? Call me old fashioned but when I put something in nuetral I naturally expect all power to be disengaged. I bought the motor because it was cheap and I did not expect a ultra quiet hot rod as I just wanted to upgrade from an electric motor to get across the lake and up the river faster to open up some smallie fishing that has been out of grasp.

aaah...the motor was monted to the transom and sitting in my backyard on a trailer (air cooled motor).

I just bought 5hp Briggs outboard and wanted to know if mine is operating properly as I am a newby to the outboard world. While in nuetral the prop turns backwards...is this correct?