Originally Posted by
Humminbird_Greg
I’ll send Willette a link to your post here slabbacks.
Personally I think that you could just spread the metal bracket a little bit but the new hardware would be a better fix overall. The amount of force needed to cause the transducer to kick up is determined by how tightly the metal bracket grips the plastic pivot arm. Those detents in sides of the metal bracket interfere with the pivot arm (and transducer) from swinging upwards, so bending them outwards would decrease the amount of force and bending them inwards would increase the amount of force needed for it to kick up. As long as the force is applied to the front of the transducer; it should kick upwards. Though not in your case; I’ve seen several transducers that broke when the boat back into of slipped sideways into stumps, rocks, etc. The kick up feature doesn’t help then…