CrazyCat57

I am looking for a drive shower for a 1992 king cobra. If I cant find one, I will build one. Any advice will be appreciated.

FOUNTAINATLAST

Not sure there is such a thing???!!! I hada King Cobra on my Liberator and looked for accouple years never saw or heard of a shower for it.... If you do find one post it here for others as a future reference.

fund razor

I never heard of a Cobra shower either.

Who needs one with a 100 ounce fluid capacity?

mopower

Say what you will about King Cobras , but they have a much better lubrications system than any Merc. Large capacity and better circulation top to bottom and back and therefore keeps itself cool internally

So fuggetaboutit and just run it

CrazyCat57

I have a problem that when the drive gets heated up from a run of 4 to 5 miles at 3500 rpm I have no reverse untill the drive cools down and then everything works great. This happens continously every run. Had the boat to two different omc dealers , cables shifting linkage everything has been set by the book at the dealer. The next step will probably be doing the cone clutch and gears. This can be expensive without really knowing exactly what to look for. Any suggestions will be welcome. I was thinking if the drive ran a little cooler it might help. I just got the boat last fall and the hour meter only showed 50.4 hrs on it, but who really knows?It has about 80 hrs on it now.

fund razor

That's what I was getting at.

fund razor

I have two "regular" cobras. I had something like that happen when one didn't want to shift in either direction. It was the ESA getting unhappy when hot.

But only reverse is strange.

I guess that you dock slow and with your bow in?

I would ask Liberator21 (OMC guru) or maybe Iggy (drive guru).

Liberator21

I'll look into that. That's a new one on me.
Even if the ESA acted up, it should still go into reverse. It might clunk in, but it should still go in. When you get the problem, go under the engine hatch, and activate the micro switch with your finger. You should hear the engine stumble, and the rpm should drop off. If not, then you have an ESA problem. When this happens, is it difficult to shift into reverse, or the same as usual? Any weird noises when trying to get into reverse?

Paul

CrazyCat57

The dealer that set it to factory specs adjusted the esa switch and made sure its working right. When it wont go into reverse the lever still shifts good but its just like its in neutral no noise at all. in fact it shifts so nice all the time you have to give it some throttle just to see if its in gear or not forward or reverse . Forward has never missed yet. It doesent seem to show up untill the drive gets good and warm. Thanks for your time in replying on this.

mopower

Strange indeed