I have read many of the posts re the M25XP engines with Hurth transmission problems. I still need some advice though. I replaced the old Hurth trans with a ZF10 3 yrs ago; I needed to move the engine forward a little, but things went fine and it has been working well.....albeit with a rather sloppy neutral position.
About 6 weeks ago I got a dock line wrapped around my prop......daaaaaaa, I know. Anyway, the trans wouldn't go into forward afterwards. I removed the shifter bracket (the piece that the cable attaches to) from the shaft that operates the gears; thinking it may have slipped on the shaft; the bloody shaft does not have a flat on it. Still no luck; it would go into reverse fine, but no forward. So I decided to give it up for a while and use the boat as a lounge until haul out.
Recently, I started the engine in preparation for Winter haul out, and I decided to check the transmission.......LOW AND BEHOLD I COULD SHIFT IT INTO FORWARD!!! So I went through the same procedure as before; making sure the trans was in neutral and reinstalling the shifting bracket.
Now, I do have forward, but only after I shift it in and out of gear, and rev the engine a little a couple times.....then it seems to work ok, in fact I went out the other day.
My questions are:
Is it possible I just still have not got the neutral gate, forward and backward gear positions adjusted
correctly?
Or did I mess up the trans, and it is temporarily working.....just teasing me LOL?
If the latter seems true, should I just look for a TechnoDrive trans, and if so, which one?
Any help would be Sooooo appreciated. There aren't many people around Toledo, OH that work on sailboats or transmissions and engines, and this site has always been a GREAT resource.
THANKS!!
About 6 weeks ago I got a dock line wrapped around my prop......daaaaaaa, I know. Anyway, the trans wouldn't go into forward afterwards. I removed the shifter bracket (the piece that the cable attaches to) from the shaft that operates the gears; thinking it may have slipped on the shaft; the bloody shaft does not have a flat on it. Still no luck; it would go into reverse fine, but no forward. So I decided to give it up for a while and use the boat as a lounge until haul out.
Recently, I started the engine in preparation for Winter haul out, and I decided to check the transmission.......LOW AND BEHOLD I COULD SHIFT IT INTO FORWARD!!! So I went through the same procedure as before; making sure the trans was in neutral and reinstalling the shifting bracket.
Now, I do have forward, but only after I shift it in and out of gear, and rev the engine a little a couple times.....then it seems to work ok, in fact I went out the other day.
My questions are:
Is it possible I just still have not got the neutral gate, forward and backward gear positions adjusted
correctly?
Or did I mess up the trans, and it is temporarily working.....just teasing me LOL?
If the latter seems true, should I just look for a TechnoDrive trans, and if so, which one?
Any help would be Sooooo appreciated. There aren't many people around Toledo, OH that work on sailboats or transmissions and engines, and this site has always been a GREAT resource.
THANKS!!