First of all thank you everybody for your answers with my previous questions. This website is a great resource for boaters of all kinds! Now on to my question. I have a 1987 Sea Ray Seville which has the 3.0L (181cid) Mercruiser with an Alpha One outdrive. My problem is that sometimes when shifting out of neutral I get a clunking noise as the drive tries to engage, this is only fixed by giving it a little gas and it will clunk into gear. The odd thing is that sometimes when the boat is idling a little higher the drive will go into gear the first time without any clunding at all. I would love be able to get this fixed because I feel like I'm tearing up gears using it like this. Anybody know what could be causing this or a solution to my problem?