-Great stuff - I failed to mention I've eaten 2 of the labbed Max-5's as well. To Mercury's credit they have warrantied both of them. As of December they have apparently re-tooled those props with a little additional meat in them. For me in the NW we typically log around 20 hours in a full boating season so it's an annual drive oil change but if I had to do a mid-season swap that wouldn't bother me at all...I have it down like a NASCAR pit crew. Good to hear your XR is holding up - I hear from Mercury (I've had several chats with Nick as well) the cleavers can be tough on prop shafts and carriers so that's a little bit of a concern. I sounds like we drive similar...I'm a 40mph cruiser probably 90% of the time. Appreciate the feedback!!
Hp and weight your pushing is a big factor....the XR's prop shafts are a definite failure point. I think that if your not quick on the sticks and allow that prop to free spin then the prop hits the water coming down and the prop shafts can't handle that force and they just fail.,,,,,,and your loose an expensive prop. I didn't want the added weight of an SCX or #6 drive hanging off the back. The SV29 is super sensitive to weight and already I've got a swim platform bolted on the back and adding a metric ton of sound system weight {140+db JL Hertz kicker and focal} doesn't help that whole weight reduction theory.. LoL danny from OL txt me asking if the boat still floats.......which it does and still a sold triple digit single even during a 100+ degree typical summer Havasu Dayi LMAO I too just putt around on the water much like yourself
The pucker factor must have been priceless....stuffing a sponson never ends well, lmao but your reply of "other than that it was good"......
yea you understand.......love itt
The prop shaft scenario does worry me a little but I know Max Machine makes several upgraded parts that would (should) address that issue...then I just need to chase the failure somewhere else.
I had considered going that direction but the weight penalty and cost were enough to have me try the MMW route first. I wanted to ask you if you remember the name of the company that produced a bravo style drive with built internals and had a fairly hefty price tag..;.I want to say Bill Auberlen was involved in some way and has a pair on his spector cat.....do you remember it by chance?? I just remember talking to a guy that had experience with them and him saying it was actually really good but stupid expensive and being produced in a limited capacity was scaring people off at the time. LoL I just remember seeing a pic of one and it having a carbon fiber style case, so being the carbon whore I am I'd love to find one of those drives
They were called “XPower or XDrive”I had considered going that direction but the weight penalty and cost were enough to have me try the MMW route first. I wanted to ask you if you remember the name of the company that produced a bravo style drive with built internals and had a fairly hefty price tag..;.I want to say Bill Auberlen was involved in some way and has a pair on his spector cat.....do you remember it by chance?? I just remember talking to a guy that had experience with them and him saying it was actually really good but stupid expensive and being produced in a limited capacity was scaring people off at the time. LoL I just remember seeing a pic of one and it having a carbon fiber style case, so being the carbon whore I am I'd love to find one of those drives
Yep that's it...thank you because I couldn't remember it to save my life.
They were super pricey at the time. I can't remember the guy's name who was telling me about the drives, he was from Lake of the Ozarks and there were a couple boats that had them on there. I need to ask Thane at Nordic sometime because I think they put one on a 28ss.
From what i recall 8-10 years ago there was one on a Magic deck, a Nordic Thor, the Spectre and a few others. I want to recall there were 10 or so out there. A buddy was supposed to get a set we spent some time with Bill than my buddy just dropped the ball, believe it was the financial side even tho it was cheaper than rebuilding his Bravo based drives.
