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Old 01-27-2015 | 01:22 AM
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What's a good running temp for a bravo 1 and when is it in danger
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Old 01-27-2015 | 06:10 AM
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I can't speak to a value - However, I can say that I have a Bravo 3 with a drive shower. We keep the boat on a lift. After a pretty good run just for the heck of it I jumped in the water (inland lake) and felt the outdrive. Even with the drive shower the top end was warm -- not hot warm. I can only imagine how warm an outdrive gets behind some of these performance boats. For sure, make sure you have a drive shower

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Old 01-27-2015 | 04:21 PM
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One of those hand held temp gauges that reads temp with the laser would probably work pretty well.
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Old 01-27-2015 | 04:32 PM
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The boat he bought has drive temp sending units in them, for the record they never ran hotter than 105-110 pretty sure most of the time didn't hardly come off the needle, as for high temps IDK
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That's even better
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Old 01-28-2015 | 06:26 AM
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Dean from the Bravo shop, in the old days said that Lube temp would go to 195* after a hard run and if it got to 220* bearing would fail. Now that was old info and using old lube, back in the 90's. Friend of mine broke a drive shower and had the temp gauges and would see 50* hotter with the one minus the shower.. I can not remember what numbers he spoke of. I think it was 150* and 200* internal lube temp.
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