Well after 4 pretty hard summers and lots of Air, 700++ HP in my T/S, I sent in my full SCX's back to Imco for a once over just for piece of mind.
Received pricing for repairs- looks like Upper Pinion gear, clutch gear, clutch cone, other parts and pieces, Yoke and cam? are the major parts they are replacing.
Lowers looked great, just suggested I run each on opposite rotation. Oil clean. Price right at 8K for Both
Before-I was going thru atleast 2 XR's a summer, Rebuilding each during the winter, kept 2 spares at All times, and carried them with me to out of town runs.


Can you say Happy Camper!!!

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Thanks for the honest update, they are definitely better then ANY XR based drive.

How many hours?

That's really a pretty fair price I used to spend 8-12k a pair freshening JUNK XR geared Imco SC EVERY season

Nice!

What lowers are those ?

SCX lowers too w 1" spacers

Hours- 125+ I usually average almost 50 a year. This past season rebuilding my cabin I only did around 30.
change oil at 20 hours minimum. Always looks clean.

To be honest I'm surprised they needed anything at 125.

I agree, but at the same time needed or just wanted for preventative maintenance is the question. Could they have lasted longer? Would lets say Mr. Gadgets been able to rebuild them for half the cost?

When you really look into it ALL drives need freshening more often then they should......

I'd be interested to know how your buddy with that bad Ass 46 BT and 900s? swinging bravo props is holding up. That's a killer machine

[QUOTE=endeavor1;4525225]I'd be interested to know how your buddy with that bad Ass 46 BT and 900s? swinging bravo props is holding up. That's a killer machine[/QUOTE

Dan has 925ish hp Roots Blower motors 2002 46 Black Thunder with at least 3 seasons on SCX without issues

Ryan has 1050ish hp Roots Blower motors 2002 46 Black Thunder with at least 3 seasons on SCX-4 without issues

Steve has 950ish Vortech Blower engines 36 Apache and went about 400hrs before rebuilding SCX's

But I have heard of at least 3 boats with worn out/broken SCX-4 drives but unfortunately the owners don't post on here, or have ego's not willing to admit their -4s suck at swinging those huge props

I bet those SCX drives last longer swinging a bravo prop vs Surfacing prop. Dans boat runs a very respectable number IIRC vs the 46 with more HP and cleavers.