Oh I don't drive like that .. we use the boat for wakeboarding and top speed for that is around 20 mph. but the hole shot is everything ... 19 is the correct prop. But I dropped it a notch to find 1st. gear
At the end of last season it blew the oil hose to the drive and water must have got into the lower gear case, and it froze .. I tried to get it rebuilt but no dice .. now I'm thinking swap out the top end of the old and bottom end of the new.
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K so I had to swap out my outdrive this year. I have a 97 Mariah 18' bow rider. It has a 4.3l lx Gen II engine and an Alpha 1 Gen 2 drive. Last year's drive was a 1.63 ratio, with a 17" pitch prop. The hole shot was amazing and top speed was around 60k. Although I could over Rev it...
Just if anyone is interested I downloaded the entire collection of mercruiser manuals 1 thru 41 ... a couple numbers are missing but there are 36 .pdf files and a few rev. versions ... :)
I have a 1972 (I think) 165 Mercruiser straight 6 with a MR sterndrive. About a month ago (I have no idea why) the port trim ram just burst. I was trimming down a little and bam! it blew the cap right off. I got her home, bought a new cylinder, installed it, was moving it up down up down to...
