Re: hydrofoil
Re: hydrofoil
From personal experience....yes it does place additional stress on the cav plate.<br /><br />I actually broke half my cav plate off and was able to find a marine welder to fabricate a new one at the cost of about $300. <br /><br />The welder said that he sees this happen a lot and the hydrofoil is a direct cause of it. I believe I hit something with mine and felt lucky that it was just the hydrofoil and part of the cav plate that was sacraficed and not the entire drive.<br /><br />BTW I have a 90hp Force L drive. <br /><br />What I did is asked the welder to beef up the cav plate to avoid this happening again. I put on another (smaller)hydrofoil as the improved performance was definitely a plus.<br /><br />Dave
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