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From: Ken Tischler (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 20:59:57 EST
Last August we were cruising down the Pearl River in south Louisiana.
We were dead in the middle of the river and hit something. Upon
looking behind us we saw a LARGE log (3' dia.) bob up with several big
chunks out of it. Afterwards, the boat felt "funny" and was difficult
to steer.
I took a trip to the engine room and found that the Drive Saver had
done it's job. All the bolts had torn out of the flexible element,
allowing the shaft to slide back until it crashed into the rudder.
However, my transmission was intact. Only damage was a small tear in
the port prop.
Had we not had the Drive Savers installed I am convinced that the
tranny would have been damaged. As you can imagine, we happily
replaced the Drive Saver with another.
By the way, engine was a Lehman 120, and tranny was a BW Velvet drive.
Just a *very* satisfied customer!
Ken Tischler
MV Microship
Defever 49 RPH
On 11/1/05, GARY RITZMAN <> wrote:
> This past summer my buddy boat, an Ocean 38 trawler with the same
Lehman
> SP135's coupled to Borg Warner Velvet Drives as I have, hit a log and his
> Drive Saver coupling broke in two with no damage to the prop, shaft, tranny
> etc. OTOH I came across the following article while Googling "Drive Saver."
It
> claims this product, made by Globe Composite Solutions is of little value
for
> engines less than 200 HP. Would be interested in feedback on this product
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