Sounds like you might be a good canidate for my hp gimbal and bellhousing upgrade kit .

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Wow, that worked looks like a 1.81.1

Always be aware of your your trim limit, if you run hard past that you will break the gimbel ring very easy

If the gimbal is not broken where the wear pads rub on it, I suspect the input shaft took out the helmet, etc. I broke one years ago and merc told me the part that the wear pad rides on will break and take out the helmet. Mine broke at 80+mph. Go to the HP transom assembly you will be better off.

GKN U joints are NON greaseable but if your app is a 1995 with all OEM original parts then the u joint were greaseable. Someone could have change them out at one timeframe being a 20 year old boat to the newer style NON greaseable GKN version.
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With that said some one has been in your transom assembly before doing extensive work. Someone installed the Mercruiser access hole plug kit in your transom assembly instead of pulling the engine. This tells me work has 4 surely been done in the transom assembly. The plug kit are plastic and over time do not seal well. I have seen these leak plenty of times down the road. They install them in alphas as well same exact kit. Just saying

IMO and complete guessing possible your outdrive locked up and or your gimbal bearing was very close to locking up or locked up. Or transom repair from before just was it time to let go. Or wave jump hull landing on one side then pounds over to the other side. Or you just have to much power and torque for the standard assembly plus having some form of repair in the area on top of.

Man i need to put that pic on my ebay hp gimbal and get it gone .kids back to school shopping is killing me.
Have a 60 hr alpha gimbal assy on the shelf exact same break but it didnt have enough speed to dissmbowel itself like that drive is lighter had a 3 blade on it .didnt have so much as a stump mar on the lower. Prob a bad batch of reclaimed cast aluminum.

Ive hit stuff hard enough to pop the pump valve and hit stuff that twisted the prop shaft and drove on .you would know. Let us know when its torn down what happened on that one there

No ram or bellhousing stickers or ram pin caps outer. Wonder whers it was trimmed at when it snapped

There are a few things that could have happened, but now the best thing to do is a quality repair and try to prevent it from happening again, the unit has been apart before has the plug kit on it so probably repaired on the boat a practice I personally do not care for, the u joints are also rusty so a lack of service there buy a new transom assembly I would not repair that, then make sure if you are not doing the service yourself your getting the service you pay for, remove the drive every fall or spring service u joints and inspect transom assembly I also would encourage my customers before launching pull up on the lower unit on the drive and make sure there is no play inspect transom assembly before every use it only takes a few seconds and can save a lot of grief.