Michael1

I was just wondering how many hours people's Bravo One drives have lasted between:

A. Blowups
B. Rebuilds

Also how much did the repair or rebuilt cost (or even replacement if it blew up beyond repair).

I'm just trying to get a feel for how long these things will last under performance use, and what to budget.

Michael

FIXX

iTrader: (2)

depends on power,,stock hp under 500 hp will last a long time if the oil is changed often..over that your on borrowed time..

Indy

Are you easy on your equipment or rough. How's your throttle hand. What type of waters do you boat in. What kind of HP are you pushing through them. Do they get serviced often. Heavy or light boat. Over propped, underpropped, correct prop. Do they have drive showers.

So many variables, I've had good luck with mine with stock set-ups. With basically no information from you it's hard to judge but being that they are part of a boat who's job it is to break down and cause headaches and drain your bank account I'd budget heavy all the time for everything.

wrinkleface

I had about 275 hours on my xr/its sportmasters behind my triple 525's in a 43 NT! only normal service, no issues but I don't drive my boats hard, careful out of the hole, drive showers, fresh water, etc!!!! good luck

kreed

iTrader: (2)

Cigarette Bullet. 575 a side. Over 100 HRS( then I sold it.) in one summer. Beat them like red headed step children and NEVER an issue. In the ocean too! Still going strong after another 50 Hrs..

SpeedDoc

I Raced a 26' Corsa with 650 HP and used the same Bravo drive for over two years (until we picked up a lobster Trap in Key West) Keep good clean oil in it and don't abuse it on re-entry and it goes a long time.

soldier4402

standard engines and taking it easy a long time. My fontain is 20 years old and looks to have original drives and are fine.

Cost for a new drive out of the box is around 5k. A refurbed drive about 2-3k. Used ones about 1000-2000 maybe more maybe less. To have somebody fix a drive for certain issue could be dollars, hundreds, or thousands

Panther

I had Bravo's behind 700's in the Apache... They lasted 10 - 20 hrs tops and that was with driving it like a cream puff.

Scrapped the Bravo's and went to BMax and upped the HP to 830 and have never looked back. 300 hrs later, I'm still happy.

1MOSES1

the answer depends on these factors:

1. boat weight
2. hp
3. mainentance and oil changes
4. how hard you drive your boat (out of the hole, etc)

TexomaPowerboater

+1, also depends on weight. If its pushing a 38 top gun, not going to last as long as a 28 or 32ft boat. My drives are original, pretty sure they've never been rebuilt.

Cost seemed like it was around 3500 for rebuild and 5-6000 for new.

He also needs to be looking at the gimbal ring. If its subject to a lot of rough water use the gimbal rings can go at 150-200 hours even on a stock 502 28ft boat. Previous owner had to replace the transom assemblies at around 200 hours on my boat.