[spareparts]

2we ran them on several boats back when they first came out, they really supprised us on how well they worked( especially on high performace boats), but its something to tinker with constantly, we allways took the adjustment wrench and a spare set of springs with us, started carring a spare blade after a friend of ours slung one off his hydrostream. Know of a couple of guys that ran them in salt, they would have to dissasemble them after every trip to get the sand and crud out so they would work correctly. They are a neat concept if you like to play with stuff, but its not for everyone, We had a rash of rod failures on sevral different boats that the only thing they had in common were they had torque shift props on them, don't know if they caused teh problem( unloading the crank while the prop was shifting?), but some one else( my boss) made the decision to pull them off everything and not to sell them anymore, don't know if they were the cause or not