V-Drive Tom
03-21-2002, 10:05 AM
Please refer to Hot Boat Mag. April 2002 V- Drive Tech.
I am looking for strut bearings. What color would you recomend for a three-point hydro? Please advise me about costs and where I might be able to purchase them. Thank You.
Response to question
Jim, I would use the red bearing material. The cost of a pair of strut bushings starts at $75 for one-inch ID bushings. I only know of two places to buy thses bushings: Casale ENG. and Wilkes Marine. Both Andy Casale and I make these bearings.Thank you Jim.
Tom says...Why confuse others out there in v-drive land about strut BEARINGS and what COLOR? To keep it simple their strut BUSHINGS. If your not running a drag boat then the standard fiber type work just fine. What matters more is that your v-drive is lined up properly with your prop shaft so that nothing is in a bind. (fiber bushings about $15.00)
Drag boats use delrin or turcite type plastics because of much higher prop shaft speeds. (with grease pumped into strut before every run.)
If your going to run plastic type bushings at the lake then your going to want grooves in it to let the water pass through. These are just the basics about the subject.I feel that this should have been explaned in the "TECH" colomn.
If a guy wants to spend $75.00 on turcite bushings with grooves in it great.I just think a little more explinatoin helps all.
Thanks for readin!! LATER!!
WHO NEEDS A NEW CUSTOM PROPELLER!!!
or prop shaft or v-drive parts. TOM
I am looking for strut bearings. What color would you recomend for a three-point hydro? Please advise me about costs and where I might be able to purchase them. Thank You.
Response to question
Jim, I would use the red bearing material. The cost of a pair of strut bushings starts at $75 for one-inch ID bushings. I only know of two places to buy thses bushings: Casale ENG. and Wilkes Marine. Both Andy Casale and I make these bearings.Thank you Jim.
Tom says...Why confuse others out there in v-drive land about strut BEARINGS and what COLOR? To keep it simple their strut BUSHINGS. If your not running a drag boat then the standard fiber type work just fine. What matters more is that your v-drive is lined up properly with your prop shaft so that nothing is in a bind. (fiber bushings about $15.00)
Drag boats use delrin or turcite type plastics because of much higher prop shaft speeds. (with grease pumped into strut before every run.)
If your going to run plastic type bushings at the lake then your going to want grooves in it to let the water pass through. These are just the basics about the subject.I feel that this should have been explaned in the "TECH" colomn.
If a guy wants to spend $75.00 on turcite bushings with grooves in it great.I just think a little more explinatoin helps all.
Thanks for readin!! LATER!!
WHO NEEDS A NEW CUSTOM PROPELLER!!!
or prop shaft or v-drive parts. TOM