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 Post subject: Broken drive shaft..
PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 8:18 pm 
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Anyone seen this before? Any idea why it would break? Prop and shaft are in about 50ft of water.. not my axis my friends x23.ImageImageImage

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 Post subject: Re: Broken drive shaft..
PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 8:27 pm 
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Defect in the metal/manufacturing, fatigue, a few others. The G23 was doing this the first year but was a design issue. X23 been out a while though so I'd be curious to know under what the boat was doing when it happened (weight, engine, prop, history of damage)

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 Post subject: Re: Broken drive shaft..
PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 8:37 pm 
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7.4 motor.. just cruising at 20 mph. Boat has about 1k lbs of lead.. 110 hours.

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 Post subject: Re: Broken drive shaft..
PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 8:40 pm 
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Boats a 15 that he just bought.. 4th break down in about 20 hours :(

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