anyone have trouble with the sport V lower units? barely running today knocked something with the prop didn't think anything of it and finished the run to the blind and about 930 i decided to take a look to see if i nicked the prop and trim up and the entire casting of the lower unit failed and cracked in 3 places unreal i cannot believe it I'm going to try and post pictures but has anyone had any issues with this? i was in a foot of water and nothing but a foot or 2 of mud under that i don't know if it was a rock or piece of concrete or sunken metal but there is a good gouge out of the prop I'm running a brand new 44 sport v 7.5 hours and its completely destroyed right under the back portion of the cavitation plate i can actually see the drive shaft I'm completely dumbfounded by this.

that's terrible news
I been waiting to see a review of this sd,im sure mb will want to investigate the damage to see if they made a flaw in building your lower unit.
looking forward to those pics.....and glad you were still able to limp her back safely.

congrates on your first post.
keep in mind there are a lot of mb hatters out here,so don't take offence to any negative comments you may receive.i haven't read much talk about the sport vs here.
in the end I think youll have a great motor.

the only way I can visualize the gear case busting open is if you motor is mounted too low.too low will allow the gear case to be well below your transom,allowing a direct hit to the gear case that will result in failure.

I have a mudbuddy and you couldn't pay me to take a sport V. Sorry. Yes guy's have been having the same problem

a google search dint pull up too many issues.
but I did find this thread......went through a few lower units.
info my help you deal with mb

http://www.mudmotortalk.com/mmt_v2/view ... =5&t=45088

What is an mb hatter? Mad hatter's cousin? Creepy villian that runs around sabotaging all the sport v motors?

I added an extra t in hater....lol.

Hate to see this happen, but it seems to be pretty normal with these units now. Not a matter of if, but when...

Bring it back. A motor that new has a five year warranty on the Lower Unit casting. Must have hit something fierce with the prop and the resulting force on the prop shaft cracked the LU. You should have a new one at no cost.

they (MB) haven't figured this out yet?

Mine broke with only 10hrs on it. All MB will want is pics of it to send you another and you send back the core. Be sure to remove your prop, cav plate and the shaft that will pull out the top of the lower unit once removed. Haven't had a problem since and I've tried to tear it up cause they painted it the wrong camo. No luck with that since

Did you have the pin pulled?

i think the pin reference is comparing the incident to a grenade....lol

Pretty sure that it's in reference to allowing the engine to kick up.

this issue had nothing to do with the pin for the kick up it was all prop i was not even moving more then 5-10mph just started to get going when it sounded like i hit some gravel got a phone call from mudbuddy at 8:15am their time yesterday no questions asked they have the new lower unit in the mail and will be at the dealer by thursday they admitted that the early lower units were made poorly too thin and the hardening method was wrong. sounds like the new gen lower units are the ones everyone sees on the videos online and can be beaten. i know alot of you guys are all hardcore into this mud motor thing and push your machines to the limit but i am a first timer and i can tell you i was not pushing this motor at all im still in outboard mode running the same waters i did with my alumacraft and 50 hp e-tec but i can tell you one thing that as soon as spring time rolls around im going to find out what this thing can really do. i recieved my boat and motor 4 weeks late because of excel and i had no time to get comfortable with running it before season started. and as much as i would like to say ill push it as soon as i get the motor back i am not going to ruin my hunting season any worse than it already has been. It should be a quick turn around as far as they are concerned but im going to lose at least 5 of my 7 days of vacation i have taken to hunt because of not having a boat. luckily i have a trailer full of decoys.

this issue had nothing to do with the pin for the kick up it was all prop i was not even moving more then 5-10mph just started to get going when it sounded like i hit some gravel got a phone call from mudbuddy at 8:15am their time yesterday no questions asked they have the new lower unit in the mail and will be at the dealer by thursday they admitted that the early lower units were made poorly too thin and the hardening method was wrong. sounds like the new gen lower units are the ones everyone sees on the videos online and can be beaten. i know alot of you guys are all hardcore into this mud motor thing and push your machines to the limit but i am a first timer and i can tell you i was not pushing this motor at all im still in outboard mode running the same waters i did with my alumacraft and 50 hp e-tec but i can tell you one thing that as soon as spring time rolls around im going to find out what this thing can really do. i recieved my boat and motor 4 weeks late because of excel and i had no time to get comfortable with running it before season started. and as much as i would like to say ill push it as soon as i get the motor back i am not going to ruin my hunting season any worse than it already has been. It should be a quick turn around as far as they are concerned but im going to lose at least 5 of my 7 days of vacation i have taken to hunt because of not having a boat. luckily i have a trailer full of decoys.

there is not one scratch in the lower unit paint nor a nick in the skeg yet it was all prop that hit that caused this to happen it jarred the drive shaft enough to cause the casting to fail there is a million other things i can think of to happen before something like this like i said after the prop hit i probably drove the boat about 300 yards or better with the motor like this having no idea. 3 hours later decided to check the prop to see if i dinged it up and found it like this. UNREAL

by what BDUBYA says you'll be getting a better L/U - to bad about missing days on the slough.

How long have you had your Sport V ?

our opener was the 18th i picked the motor up on the 9th managed to get 3.7 on it before the opener during youth season and just some hot laps up and down the river

thats my thing you would have thought there would be a recall. i am 50/50 on them right now im pleased with the quick response to the issue and them handeling it 100% at fault but it seems as if they are just crossing fingers that more guys go with the mindset that this thing is more like an outboard and run it that way rather than actually hunt with the thing and get back in those areas its designed to go, burn up their warrenty time and save a few dollars on replacements.

Wow, you must hit something extremely solid. I have a V and have 30 hrs on it and no issues. I hit 3 stumps this weekend hard enough to kick motor completely out of warter and slam the catch pad. No issue but if you only had it for that amount of time sounds like u would have the new thicker cast. Keep us updated!

Sorry to hear that but they obviously don't have them figured out yet. Make them buy it back and buy a GT or PD.

i did see that new prodrive it looks comparable to what this sport v is supposed to be. Hopefully this never happens again or else i will be looking into making that move. They were very open with me about the issue and im sure they will be giving me the bravo 3 sounded like they have had pleanty of experience with the issue im sure they dont want to upset me more then i alreay was. because my next phone call will be to who ever is # 1 in line or ill be taking the next flight to utah

i did see that new prodrive it looks comparable to what this sport v is supposed to be. Hopefully this never happens again or else i will be looking into making that move. They were very open with me about the issue and im sure they will be giving me the bravo 3 sounded like they have had pleanty of experience with the issue im sure they dont want to upset me more then i alreay was. because my next phone call will be to who ever is # 1 in line or ill be taking the next flight to utah

Trash

I really dont believe its from hitting stuff. Mine made the same sound like the prop was in something but I was in deep water and knew I wasnt in anything. Mine blew out so bad you could see the entire shaft. Ive hit alot of shit with this new one. Its that bullshit transom saver bar. Anybody that has one needs to cut that bar short enough to where you resting is leaning back a bit while on the trailer. And make sure that pin is in while on the trailer and out while running.

when you all trailer which hole do you use on the skeg to put the pin in on the transom saver? from my picture i use the second one back or first one right after the bend in the stainless depending on which way you count them

Y'all kill any birds?

Freddy k run his v for a very short time .

I cut the pole short enough to pin into the first hole.

BDUBYA what are u referring to as the PIN.

The solution to trailering the sport v.
I have two older guys that don't do the internet thing that have some of the first test models of the support and have had zero issues trailering. I've been trying to get one to send me a pic but they don't do the smart phone thing either lol.

How much u wanting for them brackets?