Hobie Mirage Drive Failure Mode

While fishing today the right pedal on my Mirage Drive suddenly jerked forward and would not stay at the #4 or #5 position setting.  I had to pull it up to position #3 to get it to stay.

When I got home I examined the drive and found two stripped holes in the pedal plate.  Has anyone seen this failure before?  The drive is 2 years old.  Does this look like a manufacturing defect?  Any suggestions on how to get it repaired in the next few days?

WOW!  I am pretty hard on drives and boats, and I have not seen that one before and my drive is six years old!
I'm assuming the pin was not completely seated and slipped out. I dunno chief, Hobie is really good with taking care of their stuff, but i'm thinking they may call that pilot error for not making sure it was seated completely.

Damn sure worth the shot though.

Might try fabbing a plate to cover the holes and drilling a hole for the pin. That should do as a temp fix until your can replace the piece. Again, worth the effort.

Of course...check with hobie. 

But for the on the fly repair.....drill out the holes and insert a metal sleeve that will allow the pin to catch inside of it.  Might have to glue/epoxy it in, but it should work.  Maybe do the ones on either side of the failure as well.

Never seen it before, but I've had mine slip before

...drill out the holes and insert a metal sleeve that will allow the pin to catch inside of it.  Might have to glue/epoxy it in, but it should work.

Only concern with that is removing any more material from the already weakened and highly stressed area. 
Again, I dunno ?   This is all arm chair quarter backing.

Unfortunately, if one looks at the center hole one can see a crack.  This crack is through the plate. 

Yes..  I did that to one of my drives last summer. Blew out the holes on one side and cracked the other side.  Contact your hobie dealer or hobie directly and they will send you replacement parts.  Its an easy fix with basic tools.  I understand that the new drives have a feature that keeps this from happening.

The quick fix is to use it locked into one of the holes thats not broken.   I broke out the space between the 6 ad 7 hole so I just used the 5 hole till the parts showed up.  Might not be a perfect solution but its probably the best in the short term.

Should you have a inevitable failure of a Hobie drive or rudder in the Portland area, is there a "service " place or person that you can take your boat too?  It seems like the Hobie community is getting big enough now that a "shop" or a repair guy could be a real asset to us Hobie folks.

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Huh, never done that to my paddle.   
 

I took the broken drive into Next Adventure.  They checked my warranty, ordered the part from Hobie and offered to fix it when it came in (all at no cost to me).  I opted to have the part shipped to my home address and fix it myself as I'm comfortable with fixen stuff .  Its basically a plug and play repair that took about 20 minutes to fix.

What Ron said. Bring it by and we will see what hobie will do. I've got a few loaner drives if you need one for the ORC,

Jake


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NA!!! Whoo!!

Newer drives have a metal plate sandwiched between two plastic plates to try to prevent that type of problem. It is important to make sure that the pin is inserted fully when adjusting your pedals - over on the Hobie forum there are several threads on this problem.

Newer drives have a metal plate sandwiched between two plastic plates to try to prevent that type of problem.

So on the newer drives, is each "Injection Molded Drum" a plastic-metal-plastic sandwich?  Can older drives be retrofitted with the new part?

Page 44 and 45 of the Spring 2012 parts catalog show the V1 and V2 drums and list them like this:

Hobie MirageDrive "V1"
Drive with older plastic drum, plastic spine, Sprocket / mast connection is a set-screw

Hobie MirageDrive V2
WHAT MAKES A V2 Drive? V2 Drums, V2 Chains, V2 Idler Cable and
V2 (Threaded) masts / sprockets
(USED IN 2009 PRODUCTION AND NEWER)