all right so we're doing a min Kota trolling motor shaft today didn't see any other videos in the internet on YouTube of changing out one of these shafts so we're going to make one really you don't know 100% what we're going to do have a little bit of feedback from some people who have done it so we're going to give it a shot first thing we have to do is remove the head you have to take off the head unit and down here is going to be the hard part it sounds like taking off the actual motor and then have to do that we're going to put on the new shaft re run the wires hopefully it'll work out there the three screws I'm going to be taking off to take the head off of it two on the outside or they hold a collar on and the one in the middle the bolt that runs through the shaft here are the pieces that came off the line - goes to the middle of shaft the - they go on the side and then this is the collar piece that goes around the neck so we took that collar off and thought the head was going to pull right off but it looks like the wires in it aren't long left to just pull off so we're going to take the head off and undo the wires here's what the inside of the unit looks like and so we had to take out those screws and then there's a screw behind there and that screw and we're hoping that this parts pulls off now and shows us the wires that run through the shaft all right so there's the wires that go down through the shaft now we'll be able to we have to cut them anyways so we'll cut them and then pull the head off so we got the head off on the wires and it looks like they just pull pins so they're just pressure fitted on there so we can just pull them off and then work on them instead of cutting them black wire which is farthest to the left side and right wire which is all right all right now we're getting to the potentially hard part here I've heard that the collar where the shaft goes into the motor has some type of glue or a seal which makes sense and so what other people have done that I talk to is they've heated that up with a torch to break the seal and then it should be threaded and should just thread off hopefully it's easy enough you secure the head down to sawhorse with straps it's the way we have to do we don't have a vise if you have a vise it'd probably work a lot better and we're going to see if we can break the seal without fire without heating up that collar any and if we can't you'll never see this by its players this is what the head looks like probably can't see what's inside there but this is what the head looks like with just the wires hanging out now so now we're going to clean out the threads because the threads have some old stuff left in them and then after that we're gonna try to put a new chef table we're looking at the threads and they're all clogged up with probably some of the old sealant mixed with some of the compound whatever the shaft is made out of and so we're going to try and do is take the head apart so we can get in there we've tried scraping it out and it seems pretty stuck on there so try to take the head apart so we can heat it up or possibly use a chemical to break it up and get out of the threads if we don't have clean threads we won't get a good seal when we put the new shaft on and we definitely want to have a good seal you what we did here is we took apart the entire trolling motor and once we got the shaft out we'd realize there's a bunch of crap left in the threads and so that's why we had to take all the stuff out so we could heat it up reasonably heat up as it was just stuck on there wouldn't just scrape off we tried a couple different things so heating it up worked really really well and then we ended up scraping with this cotter pin which kind of bent it into a scraping point and that worked really really well so now we have real nice shiny clean threads you can see there so now we're going to reassemble the trolling motor and then we'll try putting the shaft in and over the assembly this is what the inside of the unit looks like at the very end so we took that out now we're showing you how to put it back together so this part of the unit here has a gasket I'm going to go right inside of there to seal off the head then in we'll go the motor right there and then this is the sleeve that will go over top of both of those when you go to put the motor back in you'll see these two components possibly on yours I don't know if they're all the same inside and they're just spring-loaded contact points and so you have to push those back and slide the motor in we got that part on there just so you know when you do this it's one giant magnet and when you put the steel cuff on it it likes to just attach to it so it adds another element of difficulty this is the next piece that goes on there and I got two long screws bolt you will so here's the finished product well semi-finished the the motor part of its put back together and hopefully it works otherwise we have to take it apart and try it again but next we're going to do the shaft right there do that we got a wire extension kit which we're going to attach to the pre-existing wires to compensate for the extra length that we got out of that shaft and then we're going to reassemble the head of the unit and see if it works now we're going to connect the wires that we got the wire extension kit to the pre-existing wires now we're going to heat shrink the terminals be very careful disk as a very sensitive you