I can tell you from experience the next time I have anything that even sounds like a drive failure I am pulling the lanyard. Most of the damage comes after the break, leaving it running, in or out of gear while you assess costs you the case.

Popped my first one last weekend too... Almost 500 hours on XZs, I guess I can't be too mad!

...amazing how much farther put in bay is from the ramp at 5 MPH

Dang, that is a good/bad vid. You ...were.... smoking the other guys for a few. I cringed when the sound changed. Yikes. KS

We were cruising along on the second leg of LEOPA Thunderfest

so, at 20 seconds on the video, you pass the other two boats that were running on plane, and max 20 seconds later, so at 40 of the video, we can't see them anymore, because you were at cruising speed catching some air a couple times...

man! how fast are you going when you are more than cruising !!!

4bus - Now I know what the sound is and lanyard gets pulled asap, first time is sort of shocking

RT - Its a long, lonely ride isn't it? " how much is this going to cost, did I hit anything...." lots of questions going thru your mind. I got up to 8.6 mph after , GPS of course.

KS - When it got loud I could feel the knocking in the floor, I couldn't hear the start of it over the exhaust

Jeff32 - I always tell my co-pilot we are just "cruising", not going fast. Makes for a happy household.

That's my line

You got 300 + hours on an 80 mile an hour boat, so your good to go for seasons to come! Boo yah!

I had to pull the lanyard at speed one time on my boat years ago. Was running WOT and the throttle cable became disconnected. Had no choice but to kill power to the motor. I steered hard the opposite way to try to keep my wake from swamping us. Still, the way that engine dieseled at that speed made me sure that I hydrolocked it. I pulled all the plugs after it cooled down and spun it over once just to be sure. Would hate to try that with the cam I have in it now.

Wow! Awesome video but that sound is way to familiar, I lost a TRS last year while "cruising" at 70mph. It made such noise and shuttered so hard I thought the back of the boat ripped off! The first thing I checked was if water was pouring into the bilge as I thought for sure I lost a u-joint. I limped home on one engine and this is what I found when I pulled the boat.... Yikes!

I have the exact same setup, 2005 with ITS and it has always chattered a bit when getting on plane. I bought the boat with 78 hours on it, and have over 200 now. Ever notice anything on the magnets when you changed the oil? I don't, just wondering if you saw any signs.