bravo 1 parts
 

Just pulled my b1 apart that I broke last year. Upper gear has the floor knocked out of it. Is there a kit to convert it over to the thicker floored gears? Thanks

Sure, what ratio? Do you have the serial number?

it is a 1996, no serial number handy. The stickers are gone and the drive has been painted so I cant make it out very well.

There are a couple of choices. The best deal is the complete upper ovehaul kit. Includes gears, bearings, seals, clutch, shift fork. Pretty much everthing for the upper. What is the ratio or tooth count & i will get you the part number.

Its a 1.5

The overhaul kit is PN 803107T2
A shift/gear upgrade kit is 883473A4
Gear upgrade kit only is 883473A3

You can see pictures of all the kits here

http://www.mercruiserparts.com/partsByNumber.asp

You will need some special tools to do the job.

The complete kit is the way to go, best bang for the buck. If you have the old style gears, give the parts guy the numbers stamped in case for thrush ring ie. 91 94 as the new thick floored gears use thinner thrush rings. They don't come in kits.

Thanks guys. What is the part number for the thin floored gear set?

Not made any more

Are the shift forks etc... required on a 96?

The kits that you listed, is that considered the x gears?

Kind-of-not-really

All the new style gears, including the X have the thicker floor. The actual X gear is the same gear but the input spline on the U joint is bigger. But people do call these the X gears even though they are not. Did I explain it OK?

Yes. I understand. The larger spline would obviously require a new input shaft. Are there any other parts that can be added to help my bravo 1 live a longer life? Do the thicker floored gears make that big of a difference? I'm not shearing teeth off, but cracking the floors out of forward gear.

Thanks

They will pretty much eliminate cracking the floor out. Your problem is the reason Mercury came out with them.

Anyone have a picture of a gear with the floor knocked out of it?

why do u need a picture when u said in the first of the thread u had one with the floor knocked out??????????

Because. I wanted to compare. The damage to the gear is not a crack its material from the washer that broke. I was thinking about replacing the bearing and washer and swapping it to the bottom gear.

The first time mine broke it busted the bearing. I put a new bearing in and 5 minutes of run time later it's busted the gear floor out. Here a picture of the bottom cracked out. I'm in the middle of putting thick floor gears in my drive and hope that works better.

http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/...7730724D29.jpg