checkered

A buddy just bought a 27 Fever. It's set up with left hand rotation. Is this normal on these boats?

brians fever

yes most of the singles are left hand.

tblrklakemo

During the 90's they were left hand. Mine is an 01' and its right hand drive. Left was supposed to better counter the torque of the engine. Not sure why they changed over.

sleeper_dave

My '91 is RH. I don't know if it was set up that way from the factory or not, though. It doesn't appear to be the original drive or engine.

UNSANE

My 29 is the same way, to counter the torque. Someone else had a 29 with a 575 and the boat was rolling over bad. He changed it back to LH and all is well now.

As far as I know, the Bravo drives are stronger running a RH rotation because it's running on the lower gear which is better protected. LH runs on the top side which is very close to the cap. I've heard of them literally blowing holes through the caps. The man who told me this was Craig Collabella and he is the outdrive poobah of the planet. He liked the stainless cap from the hydraulic steering and drive shower, said that makes things better, but when something goes wrong.........say the little bolt holding the shift linkage backs out of its threads and goes flying around in there, it chews up that top gear..........happened to me. My bottom survived and he pillaged another gear from another drive in for repair (it's the same part) and whalla........new upper!!!

Just tell your friend that even though he's probably only on a 496, just don't floor it coming out of the hole. Also back off if he flys the boat and if it's close chop that can't be throttled, just don't keep it floored or above 3/4. Take it easy and it will be fine.

checkered

What I don’t understand is RH rotation causes a boat to lean to port, changing to LH would seem to just make it lean to starboard. The Fever runs good, though.

flying J

My 04 is a right hand and I was thinking of changing over to left hand. Somebody has tried it, I wonder what the results were.

UNSANE

The engine torque will also cause the boat to lean to port. A LH rotation cancels this out.

UNSANE

27 or 29? What power?

Apple a day

Holy smokes that answers a question I've had. My boat is a '97 RH and I have to drag my port tab a little to keep it level.