Originally Posted by Young Performance

The cable clamp is on the driveshaft guard, since that is where Nortech puts them. I have done numerous Nortechs in the past and they are all located on the driveshaft guard.

Originally Posted by fountain4play

Just once I'd like to go out boating and not have something breakdown... After spending a ton of money on motor and drive upgrades it seems the weakest link are the transmissions hands down...

This is the third time in a little over a year that I've had reverse fail on a transmission... And before anyone chimes in NO it wasn't subjected to anything other than idle rpm and nowhere near the so called 2,000 rpm limit....

They are so pathetically fragile there has to be a better solution... I'll surmise that these transmissions have oh maybe three hours on them total and probably not that much. The wife and I just got back from a nice little spin and one of them just quit going into reverse...

If anyone has any reasonably priced solution I'm open for suggestions... This is getting ridiculous and I need to find something that will last an entire season....

Originally Posted by saxman

That isn't the brightest spot for them........ I understand that it is tricky to get them mounted, but Marc is right that things can and will move around, and that shifter cable could wiggle its way out of gear.

Originally Posted by Young Performance

Although it isn't the best option, the driveshaft guard is attached to the trans, not the transom plate. If it moves it will move with the engine and trans. Therefore, it shouldn't come out of gear.
Eddie

Originally Posted by BraceYourself

At least you didn't have to remove the motor. My experience with BAM tansmissions is if they last 10 hours they will hold up and work fine. The repetitive failures before 10 hours I still haven't figured out. Just get them rebuilt and once they last 10 hours your good to go. Dumb logic I know.