I am doing research to see what the best diy kit for a mud motor is. Has anyone had any experience in this field? I dont want a long tail i have read they are very hard to handle. I want something like a gatortail or prodrive set up but i want to build it myself. I dont have 8k laying around for one of those so i was hoping to build my own.
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Yea i never ran a long tail but i had a Go devil surface drive and you better be a man to steer it. I couldnt imagine the leverage behind those long tails.
You might call Pete at WC custom boats and see if he has any pull of lower units laying around that you could fix up or swap out the motor for a predator if the motor was bad.
Just a thought.
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I tried to build my own and bought instructions from eBay. The reality was that with steel it was going to be heavy for my jon boat.
Mud skipper sells kits but you’d still spend $3,000-4000 with kit and a decent motor. Sometimes it’s just better to find an older surface drive and replace the motor.
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I was at Backwater inc. (Longtail Manufacturers in Minnesota)before the 4th getting a fresh prop and they had some trade in stuff lying around. Worth a call. https://www.backwaterinc.com/
Talk to Jake.
I’ve been a longtail guy for years and I’ll say the newer direct drive models are a lot easier to drive, marginally longer than a surface drive, considerably lighter and a whole lot less to break/tear up.
They’re addictive no matter what you end up with. I’ll caution you on building one, as simple as it seems, there’s more than meets the eye. Most who build one, end up buying one to upgrade shortly after they get a taste for it and want better performance. It’s a fun experience building them, but ultimately you learn how much engineering has gone into the production models.
Best of luck.
PS. Wear your kill switch 100%. Not uncommon to hit a submerged log, etc. and get tossed out or dangerously off balance.Last edited by Txtourist; 07-13-2020, 07:44 AM.
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