Mirage Drive Compatibility for Older Hobies

[slammah]

Hi everyone,

I recently lost my drive attempting a beach launch out of Carlsbad (thanks everyone who helped me try to find it/replace it). I have an older hobie mirage sport (2006) and I thought other mirage drives will be able to fit. Unfortunately, none of the newer drives I've tried fit and the drive hole in the kayak is barely too small to get the connecting nubs (don't know what they're called) to fall flush into the hole.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is my only option to look for a very old mirage drive from 2006 and before? I thought my old drive was a standard mirage v2 but I wasn't able to get one to fit either.

Thanks for reading.