Paul, 1. What you are looking for probably doesn't exist because a vessel with low lateral resistance would be very unstable and undesirable....
1. Note that the boys used it as an air boat motor. 2. Perhaps this will at least explain the problem. Virtually all outboards have around a...
A number of years ago a couple of my friends went on a canoe/fishing trip. The friends (identical twins) brought with them a "secret weapon"...
Apparently not because they remove material on the crank to achieve balance with the flex plate and/or flywheel - harmonic in place. It is not a...
I have an Olds V6 from an '85 cutlass (rear drive. The engine was balanced at the factory internally for a flex plate and no harmonic balancer...
Amen to that. I saw a guy suspend a job on a Loraine crane and left the ground on the frame. He welded all the bearings in the self-propelled...
The fin (skeg) on the outdrive (and outboards) is your rudder. It also reduces the sideways pull on high performance boats and helps protect the...
A few years back we were tearing them down every 4 years. Because I was spending all my time on warships I wasn't looking after them well enough....
Jimbo, We have 5 VSP driven tugs in the Canadian Navy and as Life Cycle Materiel Manager for shafting, props and transmissions I gotta tell you...
Lets look at your note backwards. The VW transaxle was probably designed to handle more than four times the power of the original 36 hp engine. In...
Franz, I had a 120 HP Mercruiser years ago (Glastron 17 ft.) that I tried a plastic prop on. It flexed and gave a slightly better hole shot for...
Ok guys. Back to school. A variable pitch prop varies the pitch across the blade. A constant pitch has the same pitch across the blade. A...
Franz, At the height of the cold war a Russian warship stopped in England. When it docked, it just went sideways. The Brits, intrigued, went to...
Steph, Try http://www.classicglasspars.com/. I amsure that they will point you in the right direction. Gerry
It is surprising where these drives pop up. The passenger ferry that crosses between Halifax and Dartmouth Nova Scotia has this drive. This...