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oldgit said:
One of my first posts on the forum was asking about petrol boats with outdrives....
Despite all the advice went and lumbered myself with one....
Then wasted much time on posts defending the poxy awfull things.....usually with some old tosh about outdrives more economic and petrols being so much cheaper to maintain..total bilge of course.
Learned a bit but not much....
Despite all the advice then went and bought a diesel with outdrives..
Then wasted time with posts defending the poxy things.Usually about how economical outdrives were bla bla.....
Finally, beaten into submission, went and bought a diesel boat with shafts.
Then wasted much time warning others about outdrives.
Does anybody listen....NOPE. :):):).
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You did go through an underwater light phase as well from memory, don't think anyone listened either :)
 
simonfraser said:
We’re all welcome to your opinion ;)
My diesel outdrive combi on a trailer is perfect, dont know why you bought a shaft .....
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simples..needed a boat with propulsion that could withstand being used for considerable number of hours each year ( 160 since launch last June) never less than that over last decade or so.

Frequent ttempts to reprofile the riverbed with my propellers excepted. :)
 
Boat2016 said:
But this must be in the minority as there’s many outdrives out there working fine, it does amaze me that some people can neglect something with such a high value, hope it hasn’t put you off and you find a much better looked after example soon.

I also had a good laugh at oldgits post, I’m glad he can make such jokes now after his experience with his outdrives and am sure one day all will be forgiven and he will own an outdrive powered boat again :eek: :p
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To be fair the split bellows wasn’t a lack of maintenance issue - they had clearly been replaced last year. Maybe a fitting issue but who knows. Thing is we have had outdrives before and every lift out we were wondering what it would be this time. To be honest I would avoid them if I could but if we get a smaller boat than last time it is pretty much the only option.
 
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Greg2 said:
To be fair the split bellows wasn’t a lack of maintenance issue - they had clearly been replaced last year. Maybe a fitting issue but who knows. Thing is we have had outdrives before and evry lift out we were wondering what it would be this time. To be honest I would avoid them if I could but if we get a smaller boat than last time it is pretty much the only option.
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To be fair I can see why you walked away, the split bellow would concern me more knowing it wasn’t due to not being changed, it would make me wonder if it was down to poor diy maintenance and what was going to fail next.
I have owned both shafts and outdrives but feel that whatever you have will be ok as long as it’s looked after correctly, costs wise I have found for whatever size boat you have the overall cost will be about the same whatever drive train you have within reason and like you say there’s not a lot of option with a certain size boat.
 
simonfraser said:
Wonder if the splitting is due to leaving the leg up 23/7 ?
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Boat was in a marina berth so no need for leg to be raised and as far as I know it wasn’t. Might have been the spiral wire inside that got pushed out of place and pierced the rubber but really don’t know. Could get my finger in the hole and touch the UJ! Water was pouring out. Oddly oil in the drive was only slightly emulsified.
 
My thoughts are that often people have a problem and they don't really understand the problem and mis-describe it, then you get the people who describe a symptom and not the problem, and there are those with similar problems or symptoms who have found the solution and think (in good faith) that their resolution will apply to all marques and installations, which are numerous.

Unless you have the same boat and the same layout, and the exact same problem then it is difficult to diagnose.
 
Without advice from this forum i would have to reinvent boating. And the result would not be pretty
 
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