Taking up smoking
 

It needs to go!
http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o47254-en.html

Now you just teasing me!!!

SWEET RIDE JAS!!! Man if I could sell one of the kids!

Do it man! Just back from LOTO. Nothin but Fun in these bad boys

Edit Edit No Drive issues this yr!!!

I'm gonna give it a shot.

That's gonna buy you one heck of an e-cigarette starter kit...lol

I'm on "Uncle Buck's smoking plan" in reverse order.

Not sure your budget bro but the one at the Dallas dealer w 150hrs and sterlings is from Grand and Never abused. He moved up to a 700 boat.

What are you looking at getting? You should have no problem selling your boat, it's killer!

At least you didnt;)

Something with this ( 1 ) on the side

That one is on my short list. Priced pretty high for a Bravo boat though.

sweet boat....just dont think on a fireman's pay i can even swing at it.......nice boat tho! (i guess i could always sell my house)lol

You'll never turn back bro! Good luck with the new find.

Natural progression.

Stepping out of one great boat and into another! Good luck with the sale.

Nice! Lots of TS Top Guns out there, depending what you want to spend, good luck! Cigs (especially the newer ones) are real nice boats!

Damnit man!! Looked good out there runnin the Traps

I have already had 2 offers on the boat. One guy is really close to being a owner....

They never really had any issues w drives. It has the ITS boxes and I have Stellings-- I have about deceided that they are my main problem.
But price is alittle high as to what has been selling UNfortunatly for SOME of us.

Not sure you can find a cleaner one and NON merc chit

No problems with Bravos? I give me a day on it & I'll have one in need of a $5k fix.

Wasnt mine, it was Bill's TS....r/h drive stuck in fwd.

Had to limp it down to the 31mm, throw it on a lift,
and take my truck over to his place and grab his spare
and swap it out.

I tore it down last night.....nothing that $ 3k wont take
care of......at least for a little while:rolleyes:

My junk survived the weekend.

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..

What you looking at for next ride??

38 or 39 Top Gun with something other than Bravos.

A 39 Unlimited with 700's would do that for ya!!

Whats the difference in a 38 & 39?




WwW

39 is staggered, the 38 is side by side. I think those are the only significant differences, in my book anyway.

Thats the only difference, the 39 is longer because of stagger

Same beam then?


WwW

Yes

Hell he wouldnt make it off the freakin Trailer w that Karma!