What is the life expectancy of a Bravo XR.

When should it be serviced?

What parts break?

How do you make it last?

About 1 really big launch and bad re-entry.

Good maintenance practice is replacing drive fluid every 20-40 hours depending on use. Pull the drive and lube the U-joints and check alignment at least once or twice a season.

Upper gears, lower gears, verticle shafts, cone clutches, U-joints.

Leave the boat on the trailer. (Seriously, baby it out of the hole, and go easy in rough water.)

[QUOTE=Sydwayz]About 1 really big launch and bad re-entry.

Got one in the shop right now with 15 Hrs on it,

Brain (Sydwayz) is on the money as usual .......the least expencive thing you can do that means the most is changing the drive oil and as he said "one launch"

I had problems until I started using amzoil gear lube in the drives and every spring remove the drives and bring them to the shop have them taken apart. Bring the gears and shafts to a machine shop and have the parts magnafluxed for cracks and just replace the bad parts before they explode. Much cheaper and dependable.
Ed

racer-x6, How much will this be costing you?

Check with Marc at Bam Marine He will hook you up

If the drive did'ent break and you took it in to have rebuilt (serviced/gone thru) what would that typicaly cost.

do you mean dissasemble clean, inspect and reseale ????

approx 400.00 for upper 400.00 for lower + parts

What ever is the recommended yearly or hourly service so that the drive will stay together.

Should these parts just be replaced every year as preventative maintenance???