Ouch! How common is this failure
 

Check out the gimbal picture and the description. :eek: :eek:

Looks like it was a nice boat.

http://www.cooperss.com/assetnav.htm...d3d144c47a&P=A

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Spectre cat on there is enough to make you cry. Says rollover damage.

http://www.cooperss.com/assetnav.htm...b5b33e38ec&P=A

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Cat is the bonefish boat. I think it hapened early last year. very sad.

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talk to brian (sydwayz) his boat did the exact same thing and merc refuses to cover it!!!!!!( bell housing )

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It was a nice boat. A friend of mine bought it when it was in like new condition. Had it for a year and then sold it.
The new owner had it for a half a season and apparently hit something out on the river one day..... :(

Those pics make me sick..... :(

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I dunno how often it happens, but it sure effn sucks when it does. My boat did not sink, but my gimble broke identical. I was fortunate that my bellows was not compromised. I did not take on one drop of water. As you can see, there is also no visible impact damage to the boat/drive. My drive came down and out of the coupler when I came to a stop. It broke while under way, and slipped out of the coupler once forward motion stopped, and the prop was no longer holding the drive to the boat.

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What a SHAME!!! :( I always liked that Powerplay

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I think I almost ended up with a drive like that at the Lake Cumberland Poker Run last year.

After the run, we joined some friends back in a cove and was swimming around checking out the back of the boat. I found a loose hinge pin in one of the gimbal rings. Both screws came out of one of the pins and it was pinched agianst the case. If I had turned the drives one more time the wrong direction, the pin would have fallen out. That would have been real ugly at 100+mph. While we were still anchored, I took a screw out of one of the other pins and 3 of us managed to get the pin wiggled back in and secured with a screw. Needless to say, once I got home, I removed all the hinge pins screws and reinserted them with loctight.

I now carry spare screws and check the pins every time I get out of the boat.

Does anyone know if this is a common occurrence? You might never know if the pin comes out and your drive breaks for no apparent reason.

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Man that sucks Brian. Glad you did'nt lose the bellows and start taking on water. If there was no damage from an impact, what could cause this other than a weak of flawed casting? Could this be caused by improper assembly procedures when the transom assembly was built. Merc would not warranty this problem?

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Saw this happen on a Top Gun we were running with on a poker run last year. He was lucky the drive did not fall off.