A T/S w Bravo problems !!??? Say it aint so! lol

Jason I hear ya, I think the reason they didnt have Issues is it Never left the dock
150 hrs n 10 yrs Hell I have almost 200 in less than 4

Why you guys blowin up so many bravos? what kind of power?? Regular Bravo? XR? Imco?

My buddys 353 runs 105-107 and he's hurt one drive in 4 years.. approx 800 hp each

do you do own maintainence? building? if not learn to LOL saves a ton!!

not being a dik, just askin..

Bravo on a 42 Cig I get it, but the 29OL is a lot lighter even with big power...

Jason aint easy on the eyes, nerves, or throttles. :lolhit:
he was running a lot power for awhile & was breaking drives. now i think back to stock or close.

I think it's a Bad Idea!!!!!!!!!!

It's XR's...and this isnt anything new, lots of people have the
same issues with them, just do a search.

There's a 50-50 chance that you get a good set of upper gears

It seems like Merc changed something around 05'...thats
when quality took a dump.

The'll pit out, chunk out, crack, or even break off a tooth
and junk the whole upper out.

I have all the tools and know how to set them up but that
doesnt matter when you're dealing with marginal material.

I was asking since my buddys seem to hold up, he averages 102 mph any day with a 353 Formula, best of 107

He had IMCO when he got the boat, blew them up and since went all XR parts, maybe since he has extension boxes it helps? He has had no failures so far for 4 seasons, he looks at them to check every fall, had a helmet break last fall that took out u-joint but no actual drive fail..

I guess it's just a luck game!!

then my other buddy smokes a big azz TRS last weekend with 525HP go figure....

Have him take Q, JS, BA and myself for a ride.

There's so much negative drive karma there that he'll
need oars or seatow to get back to the dock;)

LOL

Yea... the first 2 seasons he was smoking engines while getting everything dialed in... I would rather hurt drives lol

Full Force, IMCO uses XR internal parts. Gear sets, shafts, bearings.....
Stuff breaks. I set up my drives, my motorman sets up my drives, my boatman sets up my drives. We all have equal success in making them live.

I dont think the earlier ones had all XR parts, if nothing else the upper to lower shaft was a torsion shaft smaller then the XR but maybe the other stuff was still XR, I am not a drive gu ru, he knows that stuff a ton more then me, I was just curious thats all..