04-07-2014, 06:23 PM
Flygoddess has the right idea and I too have turned the head, trolled backward and steered with my fins. My motor is directly behind the seat and makes it really hard to steer, especially going forward because you have to constantly adjust.
Yesterday I added a new steering idea. I used four small pullies with paracord to make a steering system to the side of the seat. In installed a U bolt and a metal bar to the shaft of the motor and will clip on quick disconnect metal rings to the metal bar which allows me to move the cord with my left hand and pivot the motor left or right. I don't have a pic of the motor bracket but here is a shot of the cord and the metal rings connected to each other while the motor is off.
I too am going to remote mount the switch out of my Minn Kota, but learned something from FG in this thread; use a radio knob. I put the motor back together to fish with it tomorrow because the switch is too hard to turn without a knob. The motor is actually a really simple item; everything is labeled and there are very few parts.
Edit: By the way, that PVC in the pic is for my transducer. I have a bow mounted transducer so I screwed it into a T and mounted it on a down pipe so it is about an inch under water when the heavy stuff (motor, battery, uh er me) are on board.
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Yesterday I added a new steering idea. I used four small pullies with paracord to make a steering system to the side of the seat. In installed a U bolt and a metal bar to the shaft of the motor and will clip on quick disconnect metal rings to the metal bar which allows me to move the cord with my left hand and pivot the motor left or right. I don't have a pic of the motor bracket but here is a shot of the cord and the metal rings connected to each other while the motor is off.
I too am going to remote mount the switch out of my Minn Kota, but learned something from FG in this thread; use a radio knob. I put the motor back together to fish with it tomorrow because the switch is too hard to turn without a knob. The motor is actually a really simple item; everything is labeled and there are very few parts.
Edit: By the way, that PVC in the pic is for my transducer. I have a bow mounted transducer so I screwed it into a T and mounted it on a down pipe so it is about an inch under water when the heavy stuff (motor, battery, uh er me) are on board.
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