Bravoitis
 

Definition.
"The crushing of the forward end of the water hose and retainer of the belle housing to transom plate water hose, which will restrict water flow into the sea pump with a severe heat increase in the pump from friction and causing rubber impeller failure."
If your impellers are failing or the engine getting hot, pull off the plastic adapter on the inner plate and inspect the end of the water hose forward end. If you boat in water with salt you may be shocked to see what all of your cooling water has to pass through.
We have a cheap and quick fix and permanite.
check amarket.com/im654.htm.
good luck Buddy

Appears your site is down

use this / amarket.com/


not this
amarket.com/im654.htm.

Found the site but not the product.????

Product Can be found here.

Sorry for the mistake!

Does anyone have any experience or opinions about using this over the original OEM parts? I think my starboard drive has bravo-itis. After running home at high speed on the trip before last, she was now running low water pressure last weekend and very hot at idle. Wasn't fun driving around the harbor on one motor :/ Took apart the pump, the impeller looked fine but somethings definitely gone wrong there as its leaking... probably a crack in the housing, will replace it all. Sounds like bravo-itis and any recommendations on this amarket replacement part?

Eager to hear about this product as well. I emailed them with some questions about instal and have not received any replies yet.

I have confirmed bravoitis and would like to avoid having to drill my transom for new transom pick-ups. This would be a great way to prevent this from happening in the future, if I were to go with the stock setup again.

Nobody?????? :(

Right? The old guy who clued me in to this likely being the problem said everybody gets it eventually, so i figured somebody here has got to know...

I do not like the connection of it. Otherwise it is a good idea. I have used the fitting adaptor from CP / Hardin and like that one,