Re: OMC -what's bad - motor or drive?
I have a question, Don. I thought Cobras were cone clutches from Day one?
This answer might help all you guys with the Cobras
OMC in their infinate wisdom named 3 totally different drives "King" Cobra.
One was the dog clutch type drive with the ESA system and the lower shift cable. This was used on all V8 engines started in 86.
Then came the OMC "King" Cobra. It had a cone clutch in the upper unit and went into production in 89 or 90 I think and had the raw water pump mounted on the outdrive like the dog clutch model.
Then around 94, OMC and Volvo went into a joint venture and the SX drive came about. Volvo called it the SX Cobra, but OMC called it the (you guessed it) "King" Cobra.
This drive has the basic out looks of a regular OMC Cobra drive in shape, but the insides are all Volvo cone clutch drive. NO raw water pump in the outdrive either. The shift mechanism for the drive is where the raw water pumps were located on the earlier Cobras. The pump was moved to engine driven on the SX drives.
The upper and lowers of the SX type drives are NOT interchangable with any OMC cobra drives