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07-26-2023, 01:14 PM

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Did you put Mercury Racing decals on the sides of them?

no actually I left them blank. I left the decals they provide off, not really into advertising for anybody. One of the reasons I remove my livorsi gauges because I don't want someones name all over my boat.lol

07-26-2023, 01:28 PM

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Be tough (removing all the names) if you ever buy an outerlimits, fountain, or cigarette.

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07-26-2023, 02:03 PM

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Be tough (removing all the names) if you ever buy an outerlimits, fountain, or cigarette.

:wink

well, I had a couple fountains, and I did the same thing, you are able to find gages out there without peoples names on them lol, the guy lives on the same lake I boat on, I'm not gonna drive my boat around with his name all over my boat,lol

07-26-2023, 02:07 PM

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current boat, here's a picture of before, and after, in case you think I'm bull****ting, lol

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07-27-2023, 04:36 AM

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Just placed the order for a 1.50 unit to replace my 20 year old XR drive behind a 425 HP engine. We'll see how it does right next to the newer Mercruiser XR leg on the Stbd side. The newer Merc leg was $8K last year and my local dealers are quoting me $12K now.

Thanks Boatnt for the reply on the Imco Steering.

FYI, the SEI Bravo Uppers are on Back Order until August 23rd. Just my luck. Thankfully the Florida boating season is 52 weeks long.

09-03-2023, 07:04 PM

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Got my drive on Thursday and struggled with the install today. This is not my first outdrive swap but this one will just not go any further than shown in the photo below. I rotated the engine (slightly) at least 10 times trying to get the splines to line up but I'm wondering if the engine wasn't slightly out of alignment when I pulled the old drive out so I ordered an alignment shaft to check it out.

It took about 1/2 an hour to pull the old drive but I fought with the install of this bastard for about 4 hours before finally giving up.

Any ideas why it might be stuck here?

09-03-2023, 07:07 PM

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That’s way way off. You sure you don’t have something binding going into the bell-housing or bearing?

09-04-2023, 05:00 AM

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The old outdrive came right off. No corrosion as this was a freshwater boat its whole life and the drive was just re-geared a year ago so it's been off of the boat recently.

When I get the alignment shaft I'll know more.

I've also wanted a borescope for years. This was a good excuse to order one so I can go in and see the condition of the coupler splines.