So I am to be condemned for the fact that we have owned our boat for three seasons, and I have not changed the transmission oil. This is due to two facts:
1. The amount of boat yoga to get to our drain plug is daunting, in fact I am not sure if I can reach it without taking the heat exchanger off the engine. The hot water tank prevents me from getting to it from the aft lazarette.
2. I can’t seem to find out what oil I should be putting into this thing, and have read about Hurth HBW failures on this forum and am terrified of destroying ours with the wrong oil. Right now it just works, and that is good...
I see in the manual it says “Type A” transmission fluid. I have discussed this with basically every car parts place in the area, several who told me I was nuts, there was no such thing, one who told me to use the GM “anything” fluid, and one who finally relented, looked in his computer, found “Type A”, grunted about the fact that that was the darndest thing, and then said the didn’t have any in stock in the whole country, and it must have been replaced with something, but he couldn’t tell me what. So what type of fluid are people running here in their Hurth transmissions? I figured I need to relent at this point, and actually give the transmission some TLC.
1. The amount of boat yoga to get to our drain plug is daunting, in fact I am not sure if I can reach it without taking the heat exchanger off the engine. The hot water tank prevents me from getting to it from the aft lazarette.
2. I can’t seem to find out what oil I should be putting into this thing, and have read about Hurth HBW failures on this forum and am terrified of destroying ours with the wrong oil. Right now it just works, and that is good...
I see in the manual it says “Type A” transmission fluid. I have discussed this with basically every car parts place in the area, several who told me I was nuts, there was no such thing, one who told me to use the GM “anything” fluid, and one who finally relented, looked in his computer, found “Type A”, grunted about the fact that that was the darndest thing, and then said the didn’t have any in stock in the whole country, and it must have been replaced with something, but he couldn’t tell me what. So what type of fluid are people running here in their Hurth transmissions? I figured I need to relent at this point, and actually give the transmission some TLC.