U Joint Failure
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U Joint Failure
Merc 575sci w/ bravo XZ on a 29' fountain.
Lovely boat, delivers every time.... never had a problem like this in 5 years.
Heard a noise, put in neutral.... revved up, no noise, put in gear, cruised at 3000 rpm for 60 seconds then bang, noise, and no forward.....
Now when i start it, it bangs and clanks....... sounds like a broken U joint.... it's loud.
What do you think? I won't have my trailer and truck down here (NJ Shore) Until Thursday.... although I'm tempted to go home and get it now, so I know what happened.... It's on a pontoon boat lift and I'm not interested in working on it over the water.
Should I have it fixed by a u joint shop or just buy a new part? It's like $1000!!!! WTF!!!!
Lovely boat, delivers every time.... never had a problem like this in 5 years.
Heard a noise, put in neutral.... revved up, no noise, put in gear, cruised at 3000 rpm for 60 seconds then bang, noise, and no forward.....
Now when i start it, it bangs and clanks....... sounds like a broken U joint.... it's loud.
What do you think? I won't have my trailer and truck down here (NJ Shore) Until Thursday.... although I'm tempted to go home and get it now, so I know what happened.... It's on a pontoon boat lift and I'm not interested in working on it over the water.
Should I have it fixed by a u joint shop or just buy a new part? It's like $1000!!!! WTF!!!!
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I broke the center joint on my drive shaft(imco box) and it was nowhere near $1000 to fix. I had to buy the center joint and 2 new ujoints and I have $70.00 in parts plus I went ahead and replaced the bellows so I have a total of $140.00 in the repair and I fixed it myself in about 2 hours.
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pull the drive
pull the drive and fix it yourself.if you have a napa store near-by you can probley find it there.if you have put a u-joint in a car before you can do the drive......just rember to greese the u-joint first before installing the drive first.
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You can work over the water.....here's an old cell pic of a drive change on a floating lift 200+ miles from home. Paid a guy to break into my garage and bring my spare!!!! This one had the little walk-way behind the boat and we found a floating 4x6 platform we tied up under there (hint: we tied a rope to the drive so if it went to the bottom we could fish it back out!!!)
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Hope it's not what happened to me.......upper gears shredded in xr drive. Drive stopped dead. Engine kept spinning snapping the input shaft and wrecking the u joints and coupler too. Bought a new drive, coupler, gimbal bearing, misc parts, etc.
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I hope not. I'll post an update on Friday.... unfortunately I can't get it done until I have my truck and trailer handy.
As for being here, I'm stoked. i have a tendency to go overboard with my hobbies and make businesses from them..... stay tuned
As for being here, I'm stoked. i have a tendency to go overboard with my hobbies and make businesses from them..... stay tuned