It looks pretty close to the original spitfire prop, however... I ran into problems while installing it.I will say that I have not used this in the water yet and will be trying it out this weekend if everything goes well. That said, once I can get a new Mercury Prop this thing is going into a storage bin just for a backup.Problem 1 while installing it: The Hub doesn't fit inside the prop. It says "it should slide 3/4 of the way in and then you can push or gently tap" the rest of the way. That was 100% untrue.I had to get a big socket and a rubber mallet and beat that thing in there. Even then I had to tighten the nut down on the prop to get it to seat far enough in for the outer washer to lock onto the splines. I didn't feel good about doing this at all.Problem 2:The picture... After I tightened it down to seat everything I took it apart and put that lock washer on. I tightened the prop nut down to 55 ft-lbs as instructed by Mercury. The lock washer broke both pins off as you can see in the picture.I ended up using the old one and that held up fine.That is a HUGE problem in my eyes. I've had a prop fall off, not get knocked off, come undone and fall off almost 2 miles from the dock. I NEVER want to do that again. It's pretty unforgivable in my eyes, that's a key safety feature and they cheaped out on it.Problem 3This may not be a problem but after I put it on, it didn't spin very freely while in neutral. I did start the engine up and put it in gear to let it spin and it now feels much better but I'm a bit worried about it. As long as it doesn't fall off this weekend I think we'll be ok.If this thing does have any problems getting the boat up on plane this weekend I'll update this. It looks very close to the mercury prop so I doubt that will be an issue and my main reason for not rating it higher is the terrible fit of the hub and them skimping out on a key safety feature. That lock ring is the cotter pin for those of you that have those on other engines. The one the
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