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    V-Drive Locks Up In Forward Gear

    My boat has twin Crusader 454's tied to Borg Warner V-drives. A few weeks ago while I was headed back to the dock, I felt the starboard drive slipping a bit. A few days later, I went down into the bilge to check things out. The fluid was low in the starboard side so I added about 1.5 quarts to...
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    Volvo Penta SX drive not going into gear

    I was at the lake yesterday and the boat was running fine. I was in forward gear and running it up to planning speed when all of a sudden, the engine over-revved and the boat fell off plane and stopped. I first thought that I had spun a hub on my prop but it appears that the prop is fine and is...
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    Which SX Drive do I Have?

    It is starting to look like I am going to have to replace my outdrive. My boat has a 5.7 Volvo Penta engine (Carb) and an SX outdrive. I have been doing some research online and it seems that there are several different versions of outdrives in the Volvo Penta SX family, For example, there is...
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    Major Engine Problem?

    My boat has a Volvo Penta 5.7 engine with a Volvo Penta SX outdrive. Last week, as I was just getting on plane, I heard a screeching sound and the engine shut down. After getting it towed back to the slip, I did a preliminary check and found that it will not even turn when the starter engages...
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    Bad Alternator Causing Engine to Die??

    Took the boat out for a spin yesterday. I always check the guages when heading out through the no wake zone and everything was fine, including voltage level. The boat came up on plane fine and about 10 minutes into the trip, the engine stalled and died. At that point, the voltage level was...
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    Switching from shore power outlet to inverter

    I have a 13 inch flat screen TV with a DVD player on my boat and I want to be able to run it from the 120v outlet when connected to shore power or from a 450 watt inverter when I am out on the water (I do not have a genset). I want to avoid having to unplug from the inverter and plugging into...
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