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blew up my bravo 1

chinaride

chinaride

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just blew up my bravo 1!!!!!!!!!!! it only sits behind a stocker 6.2l. I was pulling a tuber for a good ways down the river, made a tight turn and something came apart in the drive. grinding and now wont shift into reverse, in nuetral you can hear gears skipping. I dont think i was pushing it to hard. 3000k rpms and 23mph on gps. oh well. anybody tried the imco stuff? I guess if I'm going to rebuild I should upgrade. hope i'm not going to be down to long. going out to the shop to pull the drive right now. try and post some pictures later tonight or mon.
 
A bravo 1 is pretty dang tough mine got 12 years of use before mine broke. The first 7 years with a stock big block and the and the last 5 years it has been beat on with over 500hp and over 600 Ft pounds of torque. I think you will be wasting your money on imco stuff unless your going to put in some 600 ci engine. Mine sounded like yours a knocking noise and lost reverse. The main gear was chipped on the cone clutch.
 
just pulled the drive off and both sides of the ujoint sheared off. both sides of the drive shafts are not going to be repairable. the good thing is it looks to be not as exspensive as first thought! not sure how hard the it is going to be to replace the drive side of shaft. from the looks of it might have to pull apart the upper unit and press a new bearing on? was thinking about that imco stuff and will probably use factory stuff. thanks for the input though.
 
What happened to it. Has this boat been started with the drive all the way up in trailer mode. That will smoke the joints in a hurry
 
Get a price from Stern Drive Engineering for a replacement unit. They may be cheaper than just buying parts to fix yours. I think the bottom half brand new is less that $900! boatman
 
thanxs for the info. i'll look into that. dont know what really happened yet. like reds i think the lower unit may have locked up at one point. haven't taken it apart yet. top have is fine. but i can feel a gear skipping somewhere.
 
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