Jack plate pump is toast

[sim]

Land and Sea jackplate-pump is fried. Local rebuild shop says they can't rebuild it. Anybody got any ideas for replacing other than a whole new jackplate?
Also- what happens if I run this thing without the pump on it (it's in the down position now). Will the 500 pound engine go up on it's own? and will anything get damaged? Maybe I should just toss a bolt in to secure it.
Thanks for any advice and suggestions.

 

[mattschaff]

I'm not sure what to do but i wouldn't throw a bolt in it. as it is now, most are designed if you hit something a shear pin will give away so you don't do any major damage. A bolt would stop this from happening and could possibly have catastrophic results if something is hit.

 

[panther150]

Land and Sea jackplate

I would replace the jackplate. The L&S 600 plates where discontinued back in the day for design problems, although some of them gave long service, I would replace the plate with a motor that big.

Steve

 

[ianz]

you should replace it with somthing even if it is a manual one. I do know of a couple people who bolted their defunt Hyd. plates but it wasn't done for a long term of service and the motors were the old 2.4 and 2.5 blocks.

CMC makes a very affordable manual plate if you go Hyd Stainless Marine is an excellent unit.