I will be buying a mud motor in a few weeks. Looking to spend about 6000 and want to buy new I have a war eagle 848. I am looking for about 35 hp and have been looking at the 2010 PD36. I wanted to get away from belt drives is this a good idea and want to know what you think or the Pro drive lower units. also would like to see what you would get.

Thanks for reading

no matter which one u buy... out the door brand new.. your gonna write a check for between 6800-7200.. thats motor, tax, & title



Go devil may be a little cheaper but they dont have reverse or a clutch for neutral..

Without reverse or hydro t&t the PD is under 6000. Out the door with reverse and hydro t&t was around 7

I am looking at the base PD it will be 5901 with tax. I don't think I will need the reverse but may add it later down the road, but my concern is this if you break a belt on what i have now a mud buddy it sucks but only costs 125 bucks to replace my concern is how much more durable is the pro drive lower unit.

They are both good motors. I personally run a prodrive and am happy with it. Yeah it sux if you break a belt, but it doesn't happen very often. And if it does, its a 125 dollar fix. You tear up a pd lower unit, your looking at a lot more expensive fix. As far as I know the new lower unit they are using is a lot better than the old. We have updated both of ours, and no problems as of yet.

refurbished lower unit= 375, brand new 575...

So next question has anyone broke the lower unit and what did it take to do it.

Broke one on a boulder in the river. Still ran about 10 hours or so before it was completely gone. If we'd known it was forked up as bad as it was we may have been able to fix it. Had another that had an issue with the seals. The new style is supposed to have fixed that problem. Some have added an extra seal to the old ones with good luck also.

i run in a stump infested swamp. broke one (older style lower unit) when i hit an undeground culvert i dint know about when the water droppped WAY LOW.

at the first caddo ride 5 yrs ago, shane DESTROYED his lower unit.. cant remeber how.. but peck from PD was there. he told him RUN IT LIKE A RAPED APE back to the landing.. it never went completely out.. made some hellacious racket but it survived! and that was a long run back!!

dude! a PD wit no fpr is like having one a dem 2 wheel drive Z71's,paid extra for nothin.
if you dont need reverse,get you a go-devil!

Don't get a GD. Had one, now have a GTR. The neutral is more valuable than the reverse.

i can agree with dat.............make sure u have a neutral over all buddy.

OOPS! i shoulda mentioned,you gotta have a lil bit of sense to run a straight drive.
thats all most us poor folks down the bayou can afford.