Bent Prop, Smashed Drive, or Trashed Engine Contest
 

Since the season is coming to a close.....

Hope you all had a wonderful summer, but for you who didn't this contest maybe for you!!!!

Post photos of your Bent Prop(s), Smashed Drive(s) and/or Trashed Engine Block(s) :eek::eek::eek: for a chance to win a DVD from Freeze Frame Video


Thank you BigBlockWally for the attached!

Sweet thread:evilb:

sumtin like this? :D

or this? :D

Not much, wish i had pix of years past.............:angry-smiley-038:

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmn..........................:e vilb:

Like this?:lolhit:

Tbones got to be a shoe in for this one.

I Am Not In The Contest But I Have Some photos Freeze Frame
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...k/DSCN0156.jpg
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...k/DSCN0157.jpg
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...k/DSCN0158.jpg
http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/l...k/DSCN0159.jpg

I can play this game !!!!!:lolhit:

They don't count....those were BORROWED test props.


well, I guess you did buy them after that huh?! :eek:

Oh yea there mine :picard1: and we never got a chance to try them !!!!!!!! :traurig001:

Bad Day!! I cannot find the pictures of the block and heads. Luckily, this was nothing I owned. Oil pickup weld broke, 5000rpm, you know the rest.

http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...awk/BadDay.jpg

Don't Play with Cheap Rods
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...ewerish015.jpg


Just for fun, don't miss a shift at 6500 in your ZO6
http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/y...Picture074.jpg

2 years ago I had the pickup tube weld break and drop the tube....alarms went off and I shut it down before it even came off plane. Pulled the engine and fixed it the next weekend...put nearly 100 hours on it since then, still running great. VERY LUCKY!!!!!

Yes you were!! No alarms on this rig, maybe lights.

Some kind of drive part that I've had to replace.....keep it on my home office bookshelf! :D :D

This is what the rocks just under the surface of Georgian Bay, ON can do to spoil a perfectly good day ! LOL Way back in 2002 so not sure it counts or not. :)

Can I play:

It has to be your boat. :coolcowboy:

Great photos guys, keep em' coming!! I'm sure some have GREAT stories too

Bad Day!! I cannot find the pictures of the block and heads. Luckily, this was nothing I owned. Oil pickup weld broke, 5000rpm, you know the rest.


Would like to see those.:eek:

It was my boat......

Have yet to pull my engine but I am pretty sure it is gonna be bad... Almost 100% sure I snapped my crank at 4K rpms a few weeks ago:lolhit:

There's nothing a JBweld couldn't fix .http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/Img_1294.jpg

http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/broken%20bellhousing

Looks better now

http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/E...ect%20complete

This is an easy game to play..

Spectra how did you keep her afloat with that damage? What did you hit that did not wipe out the lower? Jeeeeze :eek:

Vinny, what does it take to do that? Like, elenvtybillion hp?

Oh this thread hurts...

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Originally Posted by J.B. Marshall (Post 2965454)

Spectra how did you keep her afloat with that damage? What did you hit that did not wipe out the lower? Jeeeeze :eek:

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usually I launch on the Upper Fraser river when I go to Georgia Strait ,and there's a lot of logboating activity there, resulting the odd logs getting loose .The river is so murky that you can't see past a few inches from the surface. Some of these logs start to sink at the heavy end and get stuck in the bottom like a fricken tree.Seen logs as big a 2' in diameter sticking out at low tide standing up straight . I was lucky , because of the trim rams and external steering rams kept the shaft from pulling out any further , even the bellows stayed intact. I hit the log with the bullet of the drive dead center [ found wood chunks in the low water pickup holes] so even the prop was untouched by the impact.

Picture showing the logs all along the shore here

http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/M...North%20Fraser

280 Merc
 

http://www.offshoreonly.com/gallery/...php?file=17831
http://www.offshoreonly.com/gallery/...php?file=17834

"bravo Down"
 

http://www.offshoreonly.com/gallery/...e=17833&size=1
http://www.offshoreonly.com/gallery/...e=17832&size=1

Input shaft gernade.

That is a crazy photo.

Were all of those pix from the same event? What the heck happened?:eek::eek:

Radar Shootout in Virginia a few season ago: The prop blade literally tore off as we were coming into the marina at the end of the day. As it was tearing off it came around on a couple passes and sliced up the cavitation plate and drive shower, destroying the lower case.

Different trip on the Potomac River right outside of DC. Outer bell housing just snapped in half; no impact, no lower, no prop damage. It just came apart & drive was suspended by bellows and steering rams. Fortunately no bellows compromise and only a few hundred yards from the ramp. I felt the steering get heavy and sluggish about 2 miles from the ramp. I got within a few hundred yards and came off plane. Everything looked fine with a quick peek over the transom. When I tried to get on plane again, the drive shaft just slid right out. I am fairly certain it snapped a couple miles back while on plane and the prop thrust kept the drive shaft fully in the coupler.

Wally gets my vote. Is that Jiffy Pop? :drink:

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/a...ged_piston.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PTKOlq_hqR.../jiffy+pop.jpg

I am trying to decide on 5 or 6 drives and this thread certainly makes me lean towards 6's. lol

Actually, only took 700. But, the problem was that unknown to me, the balancer spun its hub. Dont know how many hours I ran it like that, before the crank broke. Never heard a sound until it snapped.

Great thread! makes me cringe though.