Bernie, thanks for the tip about the shift selector. After cleaning the screen, which was clean, I oiled the shift selector several times and it now shifts smooth as ever. Cruised from San Diego to Mission Bay and back this weekend (2:30 each way) with no problems. Thanks, Bob C.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2014, at 7:46 PM, "'Bernie Meisinger' via UnifliteWorld" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > O had the same thing with my 42 aft cabin with Cummins 903's one day, and > here's what it was.... > > There was a pinhole leak in the raw coolant water pipe that crosses above the > transmission. The pinhole leak was right above the selector for the > transmission this the cable connects to. Salt water on the selector---frozen > transmission. A little lubricant on the selector, fix the leak and we were > back in business for a lot less than pulling a transmission. > > These engines and transmission are pretty robust and unless you're loading up > hours like crazy you'll probably never wear them out out have to rebuild them. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: unifliteworld > Sent: Mon, Jul 14, 2014 4:08 am > Subject: [UnifliteWorld] twin disc transmission > > I have a 42 ft ACMY with DD 671 NA engines. Yesterday after running the > engines hard (1800 t0 2000 RPM) for 30 minutes, my port transmission (Twin > Disc) was hard to get out of reverse. Any ideas on this and how difficult is > it to get my transmission rebuilt. Does it have to be removed from the boat > to be rebuilt? I'm guessing it does. I'm in San Diego. Thanks. Bob C. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "UnifliteWorld" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "UnifliteWorld" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
