I AGREE WITH BOBBY I've never had water in my drives enough or to see ,and never but a hot drive in cool water they get
hot running but still have not had water problems .I run amsoil
in motors and red line in gear boxes ,
I'm not trying to argue ,,,just my take on it .

I have already decided to switch from a mineral based oil to running Amsoil in my engines....

and I think I am going to give the Redline "Shock Proof" a go in my Bravo One gear cases.

Here is a picture of one of my pinion gears. Notice the surface on 3 or 4 teeth. There are not any marks on the drive gears.

rbtnt, so what's up with the 3 or 4 teeth on the left side of the picture? Is this gear still adequate for use?

The marks on the teeth is where the surface metal has worn off. I'm replacing these gears, but flopping my forward/reverse gears over.

There are no marks, metal missing, heat marks or anything on the forward/reverse gears.


back4more - I just read through this thread about your drives:

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...highlight=lube

Did you do an inspection of your gears at the end of the season?

rbtnt
That is the same wear I had on my Pinion gear and like yours the forward and reverse gears are ok.. but I will flop them, cause the back up gear looks better than the lets go forward gear..

I really think Merc had a bad run of gears.. wish I could trade mine in for a new one..

Dick

Here's an update since I last posted in this thread (Post #11 12/22/02). Mr. Gadgets and I have dis-assembled my XR drives and found soft, exessive wear on my pinion gears----and we didn't see the used metalic lube that was drained from my drives until we held the drian pan out in the sun---not good! We are replacing the pinion gears----hopefully, this will cure the problem of excessive wear.

thanks for the update........

kaama

are your gears from the 2002 soft batch??

mc, no these were some earlier XR drives----I bought them in Oct of 2000.