75 Spectra V-Drive

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Originally Posted by 78Southwind

Well he said he did and when I put my hand up inside the housing it was tight. I even tried to pull it forward to see if I could move it back in place by hand. Those pumps make about 250 lbs of pressure.

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But that's 250 lbs of line pressure(fluid psi) not thrust. If the pump drove itself forward 1/4" the trans would be junk. That looks like an aluminum collar. It heated up, swelled, lost clamp pressure and the vibration from the engine allowed it to work loose.
Get on Mcmaster Carr, order a steel collar, reset your drive adapter spacing (about .050" i'm assuming), clamp the the steel collar on, remove the assembly, weld the collar and re-install. It should be good forever.

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Originally Posted by WESTERNAERO

If the pump drove itself forward 1/4" the trans would be junk. That looks like an aluminum collar. It heated up, swelled, lost clamp pressure and the vibration from the engine allowed it to work loose.

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The pump drive went backwards towards the engine not forwards towards the trans. I am pretty much over this and I am going with the Hughes Performance Direct Drive. I hate doing this to my wallet but I hate workarounds.

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Originally Posted by 78Southwind

The pump drive went backwards towards the engine not forwards towards the trans. I am pretty much over this and I am going with the Hughes Performance Direct Drive. I hate doing this to my wallet but I hate workarounds. I am just hoping I didn't screw the trans up.

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I saw that it went towards the engine, I didn't think it went into the pump. A steel collar welded on can be done cheap and right away. Just trying to save you some money is all.

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Originally Posted by WESTERNAERO

I saw that it went towards the engine, I didn't think it went into the pump. A steel collar welded on can be done cheap and right away. Just trying to save you some money is all.

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I hear ya Kevin it makes sense what you're saying and I appreciate the help. But I am looking into other problems that might come up as well. Some have said they have lost splines probably since they didn't use a spacer behind the flange. Other's (besides GN7) have said it could be an alignment problem with the flexplate. Scott is helping me and his time is what I am starting to get worried about (I don't want to take advantage of him and his time).

I you lived closer I'd tell you to just bring here and I'm sure we could get it fixed up so you could take it to DS tomorrow.

We got the Hughes Performance Direct Drive installed. It seems like a nice piece.

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Jerry, I hate to tell you this because you've got it all together. But, your bolts holding the drive to the flex plate should have a few threads showing. They're not fully engaged into the nylok area of the nut.
It's good to have 3 threads showing on everything that gets thru bolted with a nut and always use washers on the nut end.

So what kind of mph were you getting? Looks like it was running good.

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Originally Posted by WESTERNAERO

So what kind of mph were you getting? Looks like it was running good.

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Didn't GPS it. It was just a shake down run to get the bugs out. I think there is a slip in the transmission so I am going to test it again.

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Originally Posted by WESTERNAERO

Jerry, I hate to tell you this because you've got it all together. But, your bolts holding the drive to the flex plate should have a few threads showing. They're not fully engaged into the nylok area of the nut.
It's good to have 3 threads showing on everything that gets thru bolted with a nut and always use washers on the nut end.

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Jerry, did you see this? Not trying to harp on you but you really need longer bolts in there. I'd hate to hear that it came apart and tore some shit up after all the time and money you have in that boat getting it back together.

Please put a cover over that drive shaft.

Sounds nice and smooth! I really like this boat.:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by WESTERNAERO

Jerry, did you see this? Not trying to harp on you but you really need longer bolts in there. I'd hate to hear that it came apart and tore some shit up after all the time and money you have in that boat getting it back together.

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I saw it Kevin thanks for looking out. I will talk to Scott about it. The transmission may have to come back out because it felt like there was a slip in 3rd gear. We have another bug I have to get out of it first then I will go back and address the transmission and direct drive.

Trans needs to be fixed. Third gear is done.

Trans is pulled hope to get it back in a couple weeks.

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I had the trans rebuilt and changed the valve body to a TCI Reverse Order Shift Pattern: Park–Reverse–Neutral–First–Second–Third.

All I can say is the boat is absolutely insane. I got it up to 4,800 - 5,000 RPM's in Havasu chop and we had to be doing 80 - 85 MPH. It gets there right now too. Need to track down some more gremlins but hopefully she will be gremlin free in a month or so. BTW Kevin, Scott used longer bolts on the direct drive so no worries.

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I had the trans rebuilt and changed the valve body to a TCI Reverse Order Shift Pattern: Park–Reverse–Neutral–First–Second–Third.

All I can say is the boat is absolutely insane. I got it up to 4,800 - 5,000 RPM's in Havasu chop and we had to be doing 80 - 85 MPH. It gets there right now too. Need to track down some more gremlins but hopefully she will be gremlin free in a month or so. BTW Kevin, Scott used longer bolts on the direct drive so no worries.

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Good deal Jerry! Glad you finally got that thing going.

Jerry glad to see Greg's boat in good hands and getting the treatment that Greg always wanted to do to it. Greg was always to busy running it instead of doing better repairs lol. YES! You better keep those flower pots on that boat, Greg loved those and said said there would be bad juju for those that remove them! Like jermie lol

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Jerry glad to see Greg's boat in good hands and getting the treatment that Greg always wanted to do to it. Greg was always to busy running it instead of doing better repairs lol. YES! You better keep those flower pots on that boat, Greg loved those and said said there would be bad juju for those that remove them! Like jermie lol

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Now that I am broke the flower pots will definitely be staying ☺ so no bad juju.

Looks like I have to replumb the dumps. If you have any pictures of where your dumping your water from post them up.