Ordered my dixie mud motor (new frame) 3 weeks ago yesterday.. Mike told me 10 days it took about 14 to have it in my hands.. Not too bad, took It out first day ran great except fedex broke the air cleaner clips during shipping, so the cover flew off and is now in the bottom of the lake.. The motor was pushing my 1542 tracker topper a steady 25 with 2 guys.. Day 2 after about 4 hours of run time 4 people pushing an average 20 mph (speeds were no different shallow or deep water) the drive belt broke.. Called mike and he sent a new one out rite away.. Looked into it and come to find out it was just top loose.. Put on a new belt tightened it down to about 18-20 lbs pre break-in and she's running great.. Only other issue I've had so far was trim bolt is a little weak and wants to bend when motor comes down hard on it.. Ive put about 15 hours on it so far and will keep updating any troubles etc.. For the money this is a good motor in my opinion

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Cool pics and vids! Congrats on your new ride!


Jesse
27 PD FPR 16x36 skiff - aka - DITCH WITCH

Congrats man

I bought this motor not knowing what I was getting into.. Noone really had any reviews or pics or videos on this motor so I wanted to do a little write up about it good and bad.. Thanks guys!

Well.. Took the dixie out yesterday and just riding across the lake when wham! Shaft broke rite at taper.. Will have to call mike on Tuesday and get him to send out another one also made a new trim rod out of b7 all thread and a water valve handle

Do yourself a favor get him to send a warranty shaft then take it to your local machine shop and have them make you one out of chrome moly. The shafts Dixie uses are a soft stainless that you will continue to break.

I believe the new dixie shafts are made of chromoly

Probably going to buy a mudbuddy frame and up the 23 on it..

I started out with Dixie. Modified the frame and shaft. Switched over to gator tail. Very happy with my gator tail.

Best of luck !

Broken shaft

Talked to mike this morning and he informed me that dixie will be introducing a 7/8" drive shaft for the 23 hp, and that I will recieve a whole new tail shaft/housing.. He claims this is the same shaft used in the 35 dixies and has never broke any.. Maybe this will be the end of Dixie's bad name.. Will keep updating, hope for the best

Good luck

Gonna need it old school lol

So within 15 hours you've broken a belt, replaced the trim bolt because it was bending, and you've snapped a driveshaft. And you think this is a good motor?

Already wanting to put motor on different(company) frame after less than 50 hours?

Thanks for the review.

I'll be staying clear of dixie MM based on your aforementioned information.

I wish you luck and hope you didnt get lemon...

First impressions It was a good motor ran super smooth and a lot of pickup.. I think this company just needs to work the bugs out, mike is improving the design every day from Bens crap model, I believe the belt was just defective and this shaft issue will be resolved with the thicker diameter shaft but I will be updating as time goes on.. Long term aswell

The new 7/8's inch shaft will be in on Saturday and I will be hopefully back on the water.. Just picked up my new bps crossover from Sid at fast duck motors out of deland, great guy to deal with!

spick, is that esmeralda you are running in your youtube videos?

Mounted and yes close enough that was in lake griffin, and I'm not a victim of stockhold syndrome, I know how things work and I can see why dixie is having a hard time working out the bugs. I believe they are headed in the rite direction.. I'm not a fool

Update* put on the new tail housing I requested for it to not be painted, looks and feels a whole Lot more solid and better design. Have literally put it thru hell the last 4 days with no issues..

http://youtu.be/gbyZUolAYIY
YouTube video bps exhaust silencer in, new tail, 3 guys and a battery on a 1542

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Your not doing yourself a solid by going with mudbuddy , don't ask me how i know.

http://youtu.be/oNuzEii6YqQ
Exhaust

so far all is good with the new tail shaft no issues and I have aprox. 20 hours on it, I have a total of about 35 on whole engine

Been about a month since your last update. How are things with the Dixie? Just talked to Mike and I'm looking at ordering the 23 to go on our 1744 Phowler Prowler.

Johnny I have installed carb and exhaust and it runs like a top I'm getting 30 mph out of it on a 1544 tracker and have not had one lick of an issue since the updated parts i'm probably at close to 50-60 hours on this motor check out my youtube channel labeled "Sean Pickard" have some videos of it running..

Upgraded today to a 7/8 threaded drive shaft much much more solid then the old 3/4

Update! Been using the Dixie have close to 100 hours on it with no problems other then the ones listed.. Pretty impressive if you ask me.. Feels like it will remain this reliable for many seasons

Glad to hear it man

Sounds good that thing is gettin some great speeds.

Spickard if I were to buy a dixie 23 today, would it be reliable/durable motor? Keep in mind I don't want to mod/replace anything