magster65
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The boat is a buddy's 2000 Baja Boss 232 / 496 HO / XR drive / SS mirage prop. It looked good and sounded good (still does) so he chose not to do a sea trial because the weather was horrible at the time he was looking at it. Bad news... the boat seems to slip the prop as it comes on plane. We've tried 3 and 4 blade props and various pitches but the problem is still there. Last week it seemed to get worse... he said every time the boat passed 3000 rpm the engine would just rev up like there was something slipping. So he bought a new coupler and we pulled the motor and swapped it out. The old one looked bad so we thought we had it fixed. No luck. I saw him out on Sunday and he said the boat was fine until it had run for 1/2 hour then the problem came back. I ran along side of him and it's not something silly like the leg trimming up on it's own. I'm not a drive mechanic but is there any way the cone clutch could do that? He's stumped (so am I) and totally depressed (I'm not depressed). Any thoughts?<br />I do have one other thought... a bad one... that power package was not an option in that boat. I'm wondering if the prop's not far enough in the water or something nasty like that.<br />Also can someone post a diagram of what an X-dimension measurement is and how I can find out what this boats ideal one is?<br />Thanks
