73 Sanger Flat
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I tried a few times this morning to post a couple of pictures of the drive line failure pictures , but it does not want to load them for me this morning ..
I lost a clip on the U Joint and the u joint cap slid out and caught the bell housing and broke the bell housing in two pieces .. The boat vibrated really bad for about 20 seconds when I was just cruising about 30-40 mph .. Then I shut it down and it would not start then . Wave for Tony to pull me in with his Jet ski .. Looked back and I could see the bell housing was broke pretty bad .. It sucks this happen , but I am so lucky that this did not happen under full power and on a hard run .. It would have gotten nasty quick .. I am not sure why the clip decide the come out , those u joints have been in the boat for about 5 years and they were full of grease .. I guess it was just time for it to pop off .. ..
New drive shaft will be made this week and JJ is working on the bell housing also .. Does anyone have a bell housing that would work for this .. I can email the pics to some one if maybe they can get them to post .. I would like to get a spare bell housing now just to have .. What is starnge , the two manual oil and temp gauge I had mounted on the bell housing broke .. The needle in one of them is actually bent .. It muct have shoock pretty bad back there .. Again *- I am so lucky
Also wanted to thank Tony and Pam for the hospitality , so I left and did not say bye .. You guys was out playing in the miniature picklefork Liberator ,, Cool little boat ..
I lost a clip on the U Joint and the u joint cap slid out and caught the bell housing and broke the bell housing in two pieces .. The boat vibrated really bad for about 20 seconds when I was just cruising about 30-40 mph .. Then I shut it down and it would not start then . Wave for Tony to pull me in with his Jet ski .. Looked back and I could see the bell housing was broke pretty bad .. It sucks this happen , but I am so lucky that this did not happen under full power and on a hard run .. It would have gotten nasty quick .. I am not sure why the clip decide the come out , those u joints have been in the boat for about 5 years and they were full of grease .. I guess it was just time for it to pop off .. ..
New drive shaft will be made this week and JJ is working on the bell housing also .. Does anyone have a bell housing that would work for this .. I can email the pics to some one if maybe they can get them to post .. I would like to get a spare bell housing now just to have .. What is starnge , the two manual oil and temp gauge I had mounted on the bell housing broke .. The needle in one of them is actually bent .. It muct have shoock pretty bad back there .. Again *- I am so lucky
Also wanted to thank Tony and Pam for the hospitality , so I left and did not say bye .. You guys was out playing in the miniature picklefork Liberator ,, Cool little boat ..