Sterndrive Care, Painting My Bravo III Boating Vlog Episode 4
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This video is about me painting the MerCruiser Bravo III outdrive. I also change the magnesium sacrificial anodes, add a additional propeller anode, and do some minor propeller repair and propeller polishing. My two goals are to put a halt to the corrosion and improve the looks / ascetics with a economical method that does not require professional services or specialized equipment. This video is not intended to be a detailed step-by-step instructional video, more like an overview.
The special brass propeller nut and propeller anode were purchased from www.boatzincs....
This video is the fourth video in a series of videos about our family boating adventures. Although I do not intend to make these videos focused on boat cleaning and maintenance, the next half dozen or so videos will be about me bringing this boat back to life from long term storage.
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We are a 50+ year old couple living near Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. We intend to trailer boat. Our destinations will include the bay of Green Bay on Lake Michigan, and instate bodies of water including Lake Winnebago and the Winnebago Pool Chain of Lakes consisting of Lake Butte Des Morts, Winneconne, Poygon, Partridge, the Fox and Wolf river, the Waupaca King chain of lakes, Lake Du Bay on the Wisconsin River, the Eagle River chain of lakes and more.
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Excellent Do it yourself Video..Keep them coming
Good job!
Thanks for sharing, you explained it very clearly.
Ive used the mercury primer and paint on my outdrive, it washed off the second time i put it in the water. I had to use an epoxy based paint that last about a year.
fisher9915, thank you for checking out my video and commenting. I’m glad you found something that worked for you. I got about 15 hours run time on the boats hour meter during the fall of 2018 before I put the boat into winter storage. So far, so good.
Buen trabajo!! Haré lo mismo con mi bote bravo dos!! Saludos
Need more specific mention of exactly what was covered with tape
nice video. I like your approach and the fact that your video is not all about you...Thanks
Thank you for your kind comment Dave. Fast forward a year and a half and we are under safer-at-home orders. Here is hoping for a return to normal.
I sure hope Greg got his tools back!
Nice video Doug, You've got a great TV voice. I'm here in the UK trying to sort an oil leak in my brand new Bravo 3x that has been stored for seven years before installation and never been run or even got wet. (Life got in the way of boating!) I think it is the quad ring in the oil passage adjacent to the water inlet passage. Not a good ad' for Mercruiser if they come out of the factory with oil leaks. At least dropping the bottom off is easy. All the best, Peter
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Used bag to mask off prop shaft. Paints drive. Removes mask. Uses bag for trash. Win.
How long did this paint stay on the drive and stay looking like the finished product? Everyone says don’t waste your time unless you intend to do this annually? Thoughts?
And what exactly did you use to go from the original state of the drive to the sanded and primed step? Did you sand everything first? Sanded with what? Did you then wipe with solvent? Did you spray anything on it to get that gray color? Is that some kind of primer? Can you elaborate in more detail exactly what you did and what you used to go from old looking drive to primed and ready to paint drive?
Mike Amend Please feel free to text me or message me through Facebook messenger. I can send you a photo of what it looks like right now after 42 more hours on the motor.
Looks great. I am not in a slip. I’m a trailer boater. So that reduces time in the water.
I did review the exact products starting at 7:32 in the video.
Thank you for checking out my video and posting your comment.
You really should have skimmed all the corroded Aluminum, that is visibly “Pitted” with an Epoxy.
what grit sandpaper did you use?
get some shoes on !! safety first lol
Guess I shouldn’t show you the video of me blowing snow barefoot. :-)
I'm wondering how well the paint held up long-term. I need to do the same process to mine.
M M Since I completed this task, I’ve added about 74 hours to the motor and drive.
I’m a trailer boater, but we do occasional overnights. When totaled, the boat has spent 7 overnights in the water this summer, 2019.
So, this amount of use and time is high for a trailer boater but low for a person who keeps their boat in a slip.
The paint has held up well. I’d be happy to do a Fadcebook livestream with you to show you.
The bottom of the skeg, visible only when you trim up all the way, that paint was mostly scraped off when I forget to raise the drive as I was moving the boat. Thats on me, and not a reflection of the paint job. The rest of the drive looks like when I painted it, minus some scum that I need to wash off. As a trailer boater, I’m very satisfied.
If I was keeping the boat in slip where it would be submerged in water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I would need to do more research. As a trailer boater, what I did in this video is working well.
Hope this helps.
@@DougAlesUSA Thank you for the how to and the quick response to my question. Keep the videos coming.
@@DougAlesUSA Hi Doug, just wondering how well this is holding up? I need to paint mine as well
Hello Sir, i wonder, did you really need three full cans of paint? I´m in the process of ordering party for my outdrive and engine and was wondering about how much paint i would need. For now I have 1 can of primer, 2 cans of paint and 1 can of clear coat. thank you fopr the great video by the way :)
Thank you for your question. Each coat took 1 plus 1 /2 cans of paint. So, based on my experience, you would have one coat of primer, one coat of paint, and one coat of clear coat. Its up to you to decide if thats what you want. Best wishes .
@@DougAlesUSA For salt water, the last coat should be an anti-fouling paint, right? A clear coat over anti-fouling paint would stop it from working.
What size socket did you use?
Do you have a link to the special 72mm tool?
I put this part number into Google for the Bravo III Prop Tool 91-805457T 1 I think I paid about $60’ish but no longer remember where I got it. I hope this helps.
How did this hold up?
Held up well until fall of 2020 when I hit rock bottom on the Wisconsin Eagle River chain of lakes.
Look i painted my sterns exactly how you did then after a week in the ocean all the paint and work id done was gone.
The entire stern needs to be baked. Spray paint its a bloody joke. Was well disappointed.
How’d it stand up ..?
It held up well until I hit rock bottom on the Wisconsin Eagle River chain of lakes this summer.
@@DougAlesUSA sorry to hear about the rock strike
@@Andrico77 Thank you.
The rock strike occurred as we were precisely between the red and green markers going minimum idle speed with the drive partially raised, as we were leaving Medicine Lake and entering Big Fork Lake near the town of Three Lakes on the Wisconsin Eagle River chain of lakes.
Thank goodness the damage was not severe.
The forwarded / bow most 1/4th of the skeg looks like a shark bit it. The rear / stern 3/4th of the skeg closest to the propellers is undamaged. I intend to repair the damage myself in spring. I may weld on a new skeg or reshape the skeg, then go from there.
The stainless propellers are not bent, only some minor edge burring, so I can fix that myself with a hand file.
This follow-up and do-it-yourself repair may be worthy of a new video.
Thank you for your question.