Someone stole my outdrive...

[anesthes]

Someone stole my outdrive (while bolted to the boat).<br /><br />It was an 1987 Alpha one v8.<br /><br />I have a spre 1986 alpa one lower in my shop. <br />WHat uppers (and years) will bolt to both the lower, and my gimbal housing?<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />-- Joe

 

[Bondo]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

I Believe you'll need to run an Upper that Matches your Lower......<br />Mod.1's,+ Alpha1's can be run on your gimbal housing...........<br />As Long as you use the Longer Alpha Input Shaft...........<br /><br />iboats was having a Sale on aftermarket Drives, Something like $1500.00, Complete......

 

[anesthes]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

Hi Bondo,<br /><br />Will a '79 MR bolt right up or will that need the alpha shaft as well?<br /><br />I can't believe someone actually drove up to my boat, unbolted it, and took off.<br /><br />Yeah it seems a lot of companies are doing complete drives for $1500 shipped now. Problem is, I dont have 1500. <br /><br />-- Joe

 

[jlshields]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

Do you have insurance? That should cover at least part of it.

 

[djvan]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

Try homeowners insurance, It doesn't hurt to check.<br /><br />THAT SUCKS.<br /><br />DougV>

 

[Bondo]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

Any of the "R"s or "MR"s will need the Long Input Shaft.......<br />The Short Shaft is a little over 8"s......<br />The Long Shaft is a little over 9"s......

 

[anesthes]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

I see.<br /><br />Is a MR drive (around '79) better or worse than a alpha 1 ? <br /><br />I can get a alpha one v8 upper for around $200, and if my spare lower is good use that.<br /><br />Or for around $500 I can get a complete MR outdrive, but then ave to change the driveshaft apparently.<br /><br />As far as insurance goes. The boat was parked in the lot of a garage I rent. No insurance covers the loss. I couldn't even get my buddys to investigate it, and I used to be a cop in that town!

 

[TwoBallScrewBall]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

Anesthes, you'r post couldn't have come at a worse time to make me paranoid. I'm having driveway work done (paving the mud hole that was the driveway) and my boat has been sitting down the street in the VFW parking lot for about a week. Every morning I drive by it and check it, I hate not having it in the back yard.

 

[JasonB]

Re: Someone stole my outdrive...

I can't give you any definite answeres about whether the alpha 1 is really any better than an #1/R/MR, but I have a #1 behind a smallblock V8 that is 30 years old and still works like new. I don't think they changed too much about the drives as the names changed changed, just updated them a bit and tweaked them. Be careful mixing an alpha upper with a #1 lower. I think they will fit, but I'm not sure if the pre-load ping on the #1 lower will cause any issues.