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What does it take to upgrade from a Bravo 1 to a Bravo XR? Is it worth doing? What does the XR offer that is not in the Bravo 1?

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What hp are you running? You could upgrade to a BRAVO X Drive. There is a special on new X Drives. $4500.00 while they last.

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625SC Chief's

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With counter rotating props, are the drives LH & RH? I would gues that the answer is YES.

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Bravo Drives will rotate in either direction. With that much horse power I'd put on a pair on XR's.

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To go to XR's.... Is this an easy swap? What has to be changed?

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just the drives themselves and the hubs on your props.

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You need to change your gimble bearing to a "RED Dot Bearing also."

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You should also install trim spacers in the trim clyinders to prevent them from tilting the drive too far, The XR has a bigger u-joint assembaly that will not allow the drive to tilt as far and can be damaged if th spacers are not installed. merc also says to change the u-joint bellows reataing ring. There is some agrument about this, I asked the instructor when I wne to Merc class last winter and he said that the reataing ring for the x series is jus a tiny bit thinner becuase in some rare situtions they were rubbing and tearing the ring out.

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So it doesn't sound to hard. Long as the current location is good (x dimension??) I've done gimble bearings before. Anyone know what I would expect top pay for an XR drive?