Please help Mounting a fishfinder - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

da22y · 02-05-2012, 11:03 AM

My HB 597ci di is installed just like roadx, except I used a thicker foam, then stick a chopstick just aboved the transducer (thru the foam) , then use a bungee cord and a small piece of foam to press down the transducer.

Work pretty good for the only one time since I changed to it.

I was using liberator transducer arm before, and had to clear the kelps many times a day in LJ.

Iebadboy · 02-05-2012, 12:49 PM

So I will need marine goop to put the transducer in and a sturdy piece of foam?

roadx · 02-05-2012, 01:04 PM

i gooped down the foam but i dont suggest gooping down the transducer. i prefer to use grease between the transducer and haul. goop has a tenancy to form bubbles which is not good for a good sonar signal

here a link that use's the HB install kit

Iebadboy · 02-05-2012, 01:12 PM

What kind of grease I'm new to this never hooked up a transducer to a kayak like that I have a mad frogs liberator on my other kayak and that's all Ive done

roadx · 02-05-2012, 01:22 PM

any kind of grease works but if you get i high temp grease it wont run when it gets hot. i have used axel grease and super lube. the grease makes a vacuum to the haul and the transducer wont drop out when the yak is up side down.

da22y · 02-05-2012, 01:53 PM

I bought "MasterPro hi temp disc brake wheel bearing grease" from O'Reilly Auto Parts for like 4 or 5 bucks for 1 lb can pakage.

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...0417&ppt=C0139

02-05-2012, 01:04 PM	#3
roadx . Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,155	i gooped down the foam but i dont suggest gooping down the transducer. i prefer to use grease between the transducer and haul. goop has a tenancy to form bubbles which is not good for a good sonar signal here a link that use's the HB install kit __________________

02-05-2012, 01:22 PM	#5
roadx . Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,155	any kind of grease works but if you get i high temp grease it wont run when it gets hot. i have used axel grease and super lube. the grease makes a vacuum to the haul and the transducer wont drop out when the yak is up side down. __________________

02-05-2012, 11:03 AM	#1
da22y Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 265	My HB 597ci di is installed just like roadx, except I used a thicker foam, then stick a chopstick just aboved the transducer (thru the foam) , then use a bungee cord and a small piece of foam to press down the transducer. Work pretty good for the only one time since I changed to it. I was using liberator transducer arm before, and had to clear the kelps many times a day in LJ.

02-05-2012, 12:49 PM	#2
Iebadboy Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canyon lake CA Posts: 50	So I will need marine goop to put the transducer in and a sturdy piece of foam?

02-05-2012, 01:12 PM	#4
Iebadboy Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canyon lake CA Posts: 50	What kind of grease I'm new to this never hooked up a transducer to a kayak like that I have a mad frogs liberator on my other kayak and that's all Ive done

02-05-2012, 01:53 PM	#6
da22y Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 265	I bought "MasterPro hi temp disc brake wheel bearing grease" from O'Reilly Auto Parts for like 4 or 5 bucks for 1 lb can pakage. http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...0417&ppt=C0139