Bravo Noise
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Bravo Noise
I have a noise that is concerning me. At idle my 502/mpi Bravo makes a noise that sounds like a clunk clunk clunk at the transom. not consistent but noticeable when flushing motor and hood up and idling low with a slight lope.
I had a whine that went away when I greased the Gimbel.
No noticeable slop from forward to reverse.
What do you guys think? Normal?
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I had a whine that went away when I greased the Gimbel.
No noticeable slop from forward to reverse.
What do you guys think? Normal?
Thanks
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This may sound like a dumb question but do you have tru transom exhaust? if you do have you checked to see if it is the internal flappers, they tend to be louder wehn the boat is on the trailer, the water contacting the hull deadens the sound when you are in the water. If not I know Mercruiser was having a problem with the shift plate in the drive contacting the outside of the brass portion of the gears in the upper that seats around the cone clutch. When I went to Merc tech education last winter the instructor more or less told us that they knew about the problem but hadn't found a cuase and it isnt a long term problem.
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If the drive is trimmed up you will hear the ujoint clunk. It may be the exhaust flappers,,,, worst case,,,,,, its a gear with a tooth missing.
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Re: Bravo Noise
Originally Posted by hillbilly24
This may sound like a dumb question but do you have tru transom exhaust? if you do have you checked to see if it is the internal flappers, they tend to be louder when the boat is on the trailer, the water contacting the hull deadens the sound when you are in the water. If not I know Mercruiser was having a problem with the shift plate in the drive contacting the outside of the brass portion of the gears in the upper that seats around the cone clutch. When I went to Merc tech education last winter the instructor more or less told us that they knew about the problem but hadn't found a cuase and it isnt a long term problem.
Strait through transom exhaust. No flappers that I know of.
The rest is admittedly above me :-)
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Re: Bravo Noise
Originally Posted by Biggus
It's normal, they make a clunking noise when there is no load.
I live in an area where outboards are the norm and very few go fast boats. I feel like the midas comercial sometimes discribing this noise. But it is a thump or dull slap sound like the sound a manual trans makes when the motor is idle low and lumpy and the gears clunk together except lower in tone. Does not sound like internals more like coming from shaft area.
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The clunking is from backlash when there is no load on the drive.
I can relate, back in 1988 (when the Bravo was released) there were very few performance boat here in Maine . The clunking sound was driving me nuts and I had two different shops completely tear down my brand new drive to find nothing wrong. We finally reached someone from Merc who told us that it was normal under no load conditions.
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I can relate, back in 1988 (when the Bravo was released) there were very few performance boat here in Maine . The clunking sound was driving me nuts and I had two different shops completely tear down my brand new drive to find nothing wrong. We finally reached someone from Merc who told us that it was normal under no load conditions.
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Re: Bravo Noise
Originally Posted by Biggus
The clunking is from backlash when there is no load on the drive.
I can relate, back in 1988 (when the Bravo was released) there were very few performance boat here in Maine . The clunking sound was driving me nuts and I had two different shops completely tear down my brand new drive to find nothing wrong. We finally reached someone from Merc who told us that it was normal under no load conditions.
Kurt
I can relate, back in 1988 (when the Bravo was released) there were very few performance boat here in Maine . The clunking sound was driving me nuts and I had two different shops completely tear down my brand new drive to find nothing wrong. We finally reached someone from Merc who told us that it was normal under no load conditions.
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I have a Volvo Penta and it uses basically the same upper gear set-up and mine also makes noises some times when running on a flush tee with no load. I almost took it apart before I figured out (with the help of this kick as% web board) that it is normal for some of them to do that. Whew.
As a related story ........I once was a going to buy a consignment boat from a local parking lots dealer and it made a noise that I thought was the counter balancer gear train (it was a Mercruiser V6) and I wanted a 3rd party shop to check it out. The dealer bought the boat and I am sure he raped the guy who sold it to him. Anyhow, the guy would not let me do a compression test and check it out but agreed to let a 3rd party guy do it. I picked a authorized Volvo Penta repair place to inspect the boat, this was a task sorta because it was before I knew the wealth of information here and I always do my own repair work so I didn't have any repair guys I knew/trusted. Anyhow found one and they seems OK and they charged me 175 bucks for the "check out". They said hey heard a noise that was maybe the gimble bearing. I never heard any noise but the dealer who owned the boat agreed to pay for the gimble bearing replacement so what the heck. At this point I was going to buy the boat and the shop replace bearing and the noise remained so they talked the dealer who owned it into letting them tear the drive apart for the noise I never heard. The messed it up HUGE. The shop manager they never took a SX drive apart.. They had the backlash all hosed up (I think that is what they did anyhow) and it sounded like it was getting hit with a large hammer when the shafts were turning. Then the dealer who owned it tarted talking about lets talk about splitting some if the huge costs we were about to get into. I just walked. In what I know now, I would bet good money that the repair guy heard the ilde no load clunking and then it went down hill from there since he did not how to set up a drive.
As a related story ........I once was a going to buy a consignment boat from a local parking lots dealer and it made a noise that I thought was the counter balancer gear train (it was a Mercruiser V6) and I wanted a 3rd party shop to check it out. The dealer bought the boat and I am sure he raped the guy who sold it to him. Anyhow, the guy would not let me do a compression test and check it out but agreed to let a 3rd party guy do it. I picked a authorized Volvo Penta repair place to inspect the boat, this was a task sorta because it was before I knew the wealth of information here and I always do my own repair work so I didn't have any repair guys I knew/trusted. Anyhow found one and they seems OK and they charged me 175 bucks for the "check out". They said hey heard a noise that was maybe the gimble bearing. I never heard any noise but the dealer who owned the boat agreed to pay for the gimble bearing replacement so what the heck. At this point I was going to buy the boat and the shop replace bearing and the noise remained so they talked the dealer who owned it into letting them tear the drive apart for the noise I never heard. The messed it up HUGE. The shop manager they never took a SX drive apart.. They had the backlash all hosed up (I think that is what they did anyhow) and it sounded like it was getting hit with a large hammer when the shafts were turning. Then the dealer who owned it tarted talking about lets talk about splitting some if the huge costs we were about to get into. I just walked. In what I know now, I would bet good money that the repair guy heard the ilde no load clunking and then it went down hill from there since he did not how to set up a drive.