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Shifting Gears

“The Real Story Few Boaters
Know,” states Bill Taylor,
pump for reduced wear and better corrosion
Publisher, PRA.
protection, a nitride input shaft for increased
torque capacity and improved wear, a lon-
“Just about every transmission on ger hub to accommodate more discs, and a
boats today stems from the original
larger piston in the forward clutch cylinder
Huber Velvet Drive basic 72c Borg- to increase clamping force on the forward
Warner Velvet Drive. Vern Huber of
clutch disc.
Huber Marine supplied the transmis- A deep sump stainless steel oil pan on the
transmission keeps the oil below the rotating
sion to Mercury Marine for years where
just about every Scarab, Baja, Fountain, components, resulting in less parasitic loss
and more horsepower output at the propeller
Checkmate, Hustler, Apache, Cigarette,
Sonic, the Chris Craft Stingers, the bul- shaft. An integral windage tray keels oil out
of rotating parts during acceleration for more
let-proof Mercury Number 5 surface- efficient operation.
piercing outdrives and even the well-
After spending a week in training at
known TRS outdrives, had a connection Innovation builds high-performance, high- the Huber facility in Baton Rouge, Halpin
to the drive.”
torque gas and diesel engines for various packed up what he needed and moved
The earlier years of the 900 SC military customers (and has also won sev- it all to Sarasota. Initially, his focus will be
Mercury Racing engine also had modi- on keeping up with the demand from the
eral offshore championship races with their
fied Huber transmissions. After speak- engines), including U.S. and foreign and con- military contracts, but he said he plans to
ing with Dave Stiff of Innovation – a for- sumer customers, and wanted to make sure it increase the consumer side as well, rebuild-

mer Mercury employee – he remarked could provide reliable transmissions as part of ing transmissions for civilian customers. “My
that he built the 72c Borg-Warner for the package.personal goal is to increase the consumer
side,” he said. “The government side, we
all the TRS’s outdrive when he was at The transmission that will be produced
at Huber Marine and Machine is called the know how many transmissions we need to
Mercury.Huber 1550. It can handle 1,500-foot pounds supply. If we do not have any vendor supply
“The 72c was the original and just
of torque and has 11 clutch plates. The clutch problems we can keep up with the govern-
about everything that’s built today is disc material is upgraded to graphite and the ment side of things.”
a derivative of that,” said Dave Stiff of For more information contact Huber
increased number of discs gives the 1550 the
Innovation Marine.ability to handle greater torque loads. Other Marine and Machine at 941-587-8313,
noteworthy features include a nitride oilwww.hubermarine.com

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