http://www.hustlersport.com/prod-13028.htm

For all you tree T boning MB V fans! You can now have a care free life just like all the other MM owners do! For only 1100 and some pocket change you can now own this awesome Sport V back up handle, it comes standard with all the latest bells and whistles, and will also store neatly in any gun box! So when that time comes and that pesky troublesome stock handle gives way. No need to worry or call for a rescue! With just a couple bolts and wing nuts BAMM!! your back in action chasing tails!

good chit

Need to make sure Chaz sees this for when he buys one!!

Bayouboy what happened to the Sport motor in Venice?

I looked one of these over at the Outdoor Show this winter (the one they were sending around to all the dealers to show). I know the MB dealers staff pretty well, we are friendly competitors. We both grabbed the handle and said to each other "that is gonna be an issue". the casting is just to thin, hell, I have seen outboards that take a hard hit and shear handles off the same way, but this is a MM meant to take hits. To continue we both looked at the transom bracket, same deal, no way thick enough to handle direct hits without damaging it over time. Back in the beginning PD tried cast brackets, ones a lot thicker then these and they had some issues and had to offered extra bolts that would prevent over torqueing/cracking of the bracket. I know they had us contact every customer we sold one, inform them of the issues and offer to fix with the reworked mounting bolts at no cost. Six months later they went back to CNC made solid extruded brackets. Lower unit same issue, the MB casting is not heavy or thick enough. I am still waiting to hear about the first guy who backs into a stump wide open and blows the Bravo gears and shifter apart. It happens with Bravo outdrives on pleasure boats all the time!!!!

I saw a Sport V here about 10 day ago at my shop, guy wanted to trade it in on a new Pro-Drive EFI before the season starts, has five hours on it and has had to replace handle already due to cracks developing. I offered to sell him the Pro-Drive, but told him we respectfully declined his offer to trade the Sport V but he was more then welcome to sell it himself, we just are not willing to resell it with the knowledge it is have major safety and reliability issues.

Guess he found someone to buy it, he dropped off his deposit on a new PD EFI this afternoon.

All I can say is the knowledge of all the issues that have been reported is not bashing MB, it is trying to inform unwitting customers to beware of these motors until MB does the proper testing and development to make them safe and reliable.

PW

ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...zz...z...zz..... Who der? wait what??? Oh, I'm sorry did you say something Paul?

PW
Smart man!! I would not want to have any part of these motors that way I would avoid any type of lawsuit

Oh, yes I did --- now go back to hitting the bong

I have heard that mb is sending out something to beef up the handles on the ones that broke. Haven't seen one yet but I doubt it's much.

The bad thing about it is mb is probably still making them the same and shipping them out as fast as they can.

Do u have link to the video?

here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0grvsx2w8

Well that looks like chit...........

I wouldn't trust it......

That's just a patch!!Niglet rigged

All I can say is my handle on my GTR works fine!

So the weak spot is now in front of the patch or what.....

sent from the former Republic of Texas.

Just stay away

And y'all wonder why lil cajun doesnt come on here a lot.....

Like tony b said, we need to stop running people off this site.

^^ how is he getting run off , just sounds like men being men .. Hell I'm still hear and yall bastards were harsh on me when I first got here . I'm not say call everybody names but there should always be good debates here

STFU bitch

How's that