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01-11-2017, 10:58 PM #17000 RPM
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BP motors
Was anyone able to successfully shift a running BP motor from forward to reverse and back again? I saw them checked on inspection with the motor dead for operation but I never saw one shifted while running. To be fair many of my stock lower unit motors were not shifted either. It would not have hurt the unit but would sink the boat in reverse.
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01-12-2017, 08:05 AM #2The Historic Photo Master
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Sure. No problem. With a stop in neutral. Standard gearcases lasted longer if locked in forward, was the logic back then. I know this to have merit on offshore boats. Usually true as well on our smaller boats then. On my smaller personal center-steer fast boats, I screwed the shift cable down to the floor, in forward.
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01-14-2017, 07:21 PM #67000 RPM
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So the BP was built to allow use of a Speedmaster type lower unit in the Sport and Production classes?
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01-14-2017, 11:14 PM #7
The BP lower. I herd it said many times the BP stood for BIG PROBBLEMS!
1994 Brad Collins Mirage Jag.with 1990 2.4 BP E.F.I Offshore
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01-14-2017, 11:54 PM #8Screaming And Flying!
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Merc shifting speedmaster???
Only omc had that
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01-15-2017, 12:48 PM #9
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01-15-2017, 12:53 PM #10
Yes, in 1967-68 the full gearshift OMC GT and X motors that preceeded the BP were built for and allowed in Production and Sport ... the 1968 BP was Kiekhaefer's counter to them, running in the gearshift production/pleasure "fishing motor" classes. I don't know the date, but late in 68 or early 69, both the OMC and Merc shifting race motors were thrown out of the OPC pleasure classes - when out of the OPC gearshift classes, Merc came out with the BP to SSM adapter and that became the normal race configuration.
Strang claimed the GT & X gearshift motors were intended for Offshore Racing. Offshore didn't automatically throw out the race shifters when OPC did.
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01-15-2017, 01:03 PM #11
Someone is probably going to post a picture of the 1969 1250 Super BP with the studs up shiftable case. Yes, that's the preproduction and delivered configuration. The APBA race year starts on November 1; 1969 model year factory output probably started sometime in September. Havasu was just 3 weeks into the APBA race year, so boats running there would be in the following calendar year legal/production set up and there was incentive for Merc to have a lot of available product in accord with November 1 APBA rules.
Again, I'm pretty certain Offshore rules still allowed the shifter race cases as "pleasure motors" after OPC put them into their own special race class.
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01-15-2017, 05:59 PM #12Screaming And Flying!
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wow
thanks Mark 75
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01-15-2017, 08:28 PM #137000 RPM
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[QUOTE=largecar91;2920384]. The ability to change directions from forward to reverse and still keep all 3 little pinion shafts in one piece
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The pinion shafts weren't that little, Barry. Actually they made great chisels, punches, drivers, etc. Shifting the unit with the engine running --especially into reverse--was NOT good---but the problem was in the lower driveshaft needle bearings--as you can see on this driveshaft---I'm sure the engineers were not aware of this----
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