no longer a virgin
 

Well after over 25 years of owning and running performance boats i finely lost my virginity

was running Lake Michigan yesterday in moderate waves was only out 5 minutes when i lost a drive

(Brovo drive with Merc 600 SC's pushing 1998 Top Gun )

In all the years i have owned boats i have never blown a drive so i guess i was due

Drive will be off tonight and on its way to be repaired

I am told by my drive expert friend that he will have all the new updated GOOD stuff back in it by the weekend or by first of next week

I am going to give him both drives to do since i fear i am buying time on the other drive

since i don't seem to have messed up the case i will keep these to run

I thought about buying two new ones but not sure after reviewing past post on this subject that i would be any better off

i would welcome any additional thoughts

Marc

Marc, let us know what upgrades you do. Are you staying with Merc stuff , or another company?

Put Imco parts in them

Should They Stay Or Should They Go.....
 

Marc , the decision should be based on weather your gonna keep this boat for a while or is this the last season.

Jim,

What do you recommend ????

Wont be last boat but that has nothing to do with it

i want it good for the guy that buys it don't the road

I have been looking into imco parts but am also told Mercs new upgrades are pretty good as well

Payton,

I am not sure yet i have 2 days to figure this out :)

Marc ... sorry to hear that ,... better now than July 7 th however !!!

Wait ... you mean there were "waves" out there ?????

They didn't say anything about those in the brochure!:rolleyes: :D

yea was a great day to be on the lake

I talked to Parnell, he went out after we came in

Gotta love boating in April in Michigan

seems like Nauti Kitti and I are the only ones who dare to go out before it gets to 80 degrees

Gale warnings today! 7 footers ( real ones, not the ones you see on loto) and I can't get playboy dave to bite. :mad: Primal Instinct still waiting on a part from Latham.:mad: Ancestral Spirit in a thousand pieces. :mad: Boat Me with a busted bravo. :mad:
Little cig still in storage. :mad: The cheif still in florida:mad: Ruthless in a thousand pieces:mad: The other two 41 sabers in Ohio:mad:

Lets call an emergency sotw for this afternoon so I can see who shows up. I hate missing gale warnings. :mad: I will hit the water in my sea doo today so I at least have that comfort. NK :cool:

Wait a minute. I just realized that two 41 sabers are in coopersville today. anyone have a spare 1200 sterling I can use for the day? NK

Broken Bravos???
 

How can u break bravos with only 550hp????

Mine have close to 200 hrs on them ,,, XR,s with up grades, but,,,,,, I never run my boat hard,,,,, never go out in rough water,,,, and always leave it on the trailer if the wind is blowing over 10mph,,,, rite!!!!!!!!

Marc , hate to hear it man,,, maybe its time to talk to Jerry,,, he figured out how to make his outdrives work,,,,:D :D ,,, and now they are for sale!!! ;) ;)

Hope it is not real serious,,,,, RHC

Its now IF... its WHEN. :( :(

Glad its just money, and nothing worse.

How? :D:D:D

Welcome to the club.

RHC,
You never run the boat hard?? Never run in rough water?? and always leave the boat on the trailer if the wind is blowing?? Please don't take this the wrong way, but what are you doing on Offshore Only?? No wonder you haven't broke anything. Maybe you should get a Hydrostream and run it on a lake??

SARCASM;)

Marc,

Sorry you lost your viginity! (I know the feeling)

I have been watching and listening to see how your boat was doing because since I had to rebuild my motors last summer I am now running 550 hp. Similar to your set-up with a little less hp.

This spring will be the first time I really run the boat and I am anxious to see how the drives do

Dan Burtscher aka bustedgun

"second day of Top Gun ownership"

Anything beats blowing a drive on july 4th weekend :D

The picture above was July 5th!! :D


Dan

:eek: OH MAN

what do you do when you blow a drive? idle for ever? find the closest dock and call a cab?

really what do you do?

ive only broken drives by hiting logs

knock on wood

That is what I did.

Halfnutz, dont tell me you werent out this last weekend. It was perferct TG water on Sun. for my maiden voyage 3-4's. I was thinking of buying a rebuilt or used drive as a spare drive for now and see how I do.

Good news was I was just a few hundred yards from pier head so i just turned around and went back to the launch ramp on one motor
was no big deal

Half Nutz,

I changed props before i went out and since i had to much slip with the other ones i think these just finished the job on drives that had 390 hours on them

I redid the top half's of the engines this fall so all is good there this was the week link and i was half expecting it to happen

we will be back on the water next week

I am staying with the bravo 1's just putting in upgraded guts

will see how all goes after that

Marc

Nope, hoping for 1080 - 1100hp ( real #'s) should have'm back in about two weeks.

Activefun, Roger ( RHC) is one of the sickest people on this board :eek: He ( and poor Steff) run in ANYTHING ! Rain, cold, HUGE water....I think he's making up for not joining the Coast Guard when he had the chance :D :D

Half Nutz, Dan, you really didn't get in last weekend ? Stop waxing the damn thing and go break something !:D

Marc, hope the rebuild works for ya, my personal experience and what I've witnessed, is once they fail the chase never seemed to stop except with new assemblies.....for a while :rolleyes:

JD

Nope didn't get in (still waxing!!!!):D


I will verify that RHC will boat in anything! He's a little loopy. :D

Marc,

Don't listen to Jim "the glass is half empty" Deitz!

I had to rebuilt a bravo on my saber w/500's and 10 minutes after I mounted the drive we ran an 80 mile poker run, and I ran the crap out of the boat!!!

That drive now has 200 hours on it and no problems!!

The funny part was the guy who built the drive was with me and was screaming at me because I wasn't "breaking in the drive" properly. Oh well if it was going to break it was going to break then!


Dan

Bummer Marc!

ACTIVE FUN ..... :D :D :D :D ;)

RHC will you post a larger picture of your boat? Your paint looks sweet in the avatar!

Here ya go Warparty

Thank you, that is not too different from mine.

"the glass is half empty"

HAAAAAAAA !!!!!! :D