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This rigging works great for us. IMO, large water dumps on top of the Max Machine Bravo's is why these drives have never broken. We have 100-150 hrs on the drives running 750+HP with many hours from 5500-6500 RPM. We solved the sea weed injestion issue by covering the pu's with SS perforated disks flush with bottom. The sea weed self-cleans at speed. Only took about 5 years to figure this out :D

[QUOTE=vintage chromoly;4201283]I'm rigging my 24-7 pantera with a through the bottom pickup. Going into a sea strainer.
I'll be attaching a hose from the inner transom assembly water inlet port from the lower unit and having it discharge through the transom and directly on top of the drive.[/QUOTE

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Originally Posted by JRider (Post 4201273)

If you have imco lowers there is no need for through hull pickups. There is more than enough pressure and flow to supply the motor and cooler/s. In fact I have a thread on this in the tech section as it was problem to get the pressure to a safe level.

If u run a imco with a high X u might want to use another type of water source.

We also run the Imco lowers, but then just use the drive water to 100% dump on the Imco top cap.