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Yeah Andrew, pull the prop and make sure you grease the shaft, inspect for fishing line and leaks.
Also make sure you use a good grade of marine grease, I use the blue stuff, use a torque wrench to tighten the hub nut back down and replace the cotter pin if it's raggety.
If the prop hub corrodes and freezes on the shaft you will pay major bucks to get it fixed, shop labor is running about $100 an hour now and the cost of a new prop.
Spend the 15 or so minutes it takes to pull the prop and perform the service, you'll be glad you did.
When you are doing boat maintenance it's the little stuff that you don't do that will come back to bite you in the fanny during the season.
Little stuff like checking the electrolyte levels in those "No service batteries" and while you're there messing with the battery how's about popping the terminals off the posts and giving them a cleaning and a dab of anti fouling grease and tightening them back down.
This by its self will save one of those zero dark thirty "Aw CHITS!" at the ramp where the key turns and nothing happens, there will be 16 other fishermen lined up behind you when this happens.
Boat Gremlins also like to loosen the screws in electrical terminals and splash saltwater on the crimped lugs so they corrode right at the wire/lug joint. This is usually done during the off season when they are bored to tears and the stuff has all winter to get worse.
Boat Gremlins never sleep.
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