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Whipped Caliber
06-27-2005, 09:04 AM
Max Machine Worx’s are the greatest guys to work with!!!! Friday go down to Parker for OP6C-9 to the Blue Water get there at 1:00 can’t check in so we put the boat in the water. Go up river to Fox’s and turn back!!! Wake Board Boats all over the place. Get back to the no wake zone at Blue Water, want to jump in and cool down. Go to pull the boat out of drive and no way! The drive is now stuck in drive! Not thinking I turn the motor off, now I’m in drive and can’t start it back up. Get on the phone with Jason at Max’s he says bring it back to Havasu, so here I am ½ mile from the ramp. A boat was just coming up to us and I asked if they could tow me to the ramp. They said no problem cool guys in a Caliber 1 and then we started talking on the way to the ramp and found out that Barbie Girl was in the boat and that they where down for OP6C “small world” Got to the ramp they told us that if we didn’t get the boat fixed call them and they wound drive us over for the party.
We get the boat to Max Machine Worx’s at 3:00 and Jason pulls the drive off the boat and starts pulling it apart, finds that the Clutch cone is jammed. So it is now 4:30 he has to do some machining to get it apart and it will take some time, so we head back to Parker where I got shit faced. Get up the next day thinking that I will be bumming a ride for the day. Call Jason at Max’s and he tell me all done come and get and Enjoy the day, he had come in at 6am to have the boat done for us!!! “Way above Customer Service” Jason and Aaron you guys are the best and will never buy drive but yours.
Jason and Aaron have a new drive coming out that is the best I’ve ever seen and wish them the best luck with it!! Here are two young guys that know what “Customer Service is”
PROPS UP TO YOU TWO if you ever need a drive this is the shop for you!!!
And thanks for the tow as well!!! :) :)
OutCole'd
06-27-2005, 09:21 AM
That's great customer service Mark. Glad you got it taken care of.
Beer-30
06-27-2005, 10:08 AM
So it was one of their drives? I'm not pointing a finger, I am just curious if that was a stock XR or something? What causes that to happen? What oil do you run in the drive?
I am only asking so that I can try to avoid the same problem. :)
Whipped Caliber
06-27-2005, 02:04 PM
It was one of thiers. It happens sometimes. Just my luck it happened to me. :jawdrop:
So it was one of their drives? I'm not pointing a finger, I am just curious if that was a stock XR or something? What causes that to happen? What oil do you run in the drive?
I am only asking so that I can try to avoid the same problem. :)
Jrocket
06-27-2005, 02:08 PM
I agree...Ive had nothing but great serivce from Max Machine.
I will be getting one of their new drives when my boat is dialed in.
ekoster
07-02-2005, 05:06 PM
So it was one of their drives? I'm not pointing a finger, I am just curious if that was a stock XR or something? What causes that to happen? What oil do you run in the drive?
I am only asking so that I can try to avoid the same problem. :)
From what my master tech told me, if a bravo is left in drive and the engine turned off, you can't get it back into neutral because the input shaft needs to be spinning in order to get it to shift back into neutral. And obviously, the neutral safety switch will prohibit you from starting once the thing is stuck in forward. One customer had us put in a switch that "bypassed" the neutral safety switch. If the engine died in forward, you'd just hit the bypass and the thing would fire and then you could put it back into neutral...
eric
Beer-30
07-02-2005, 05:49 PM
My wife shut ours down one day, still in drive. I didn't know it and went to start. Well, of course it wouldn't. I just pulled back on the stick, and it popped right back to neutral with just as much force as if the engine was running. I didn't think that was any issue. Maybe it's after they are worn a little more? Not saying it couldn't get "stuck", but obviously it doesn't happen ever time.
phebus
07-02-2005, 08:59 PM
I've been told that just spinning the prop by hand as you pull it back into neutral is enough rotation in the drive to be able to do it safely, without damaging your cable or drive. Of course make sure your kill switch is switched so the engine can't accidently start.