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megapea
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From: Ohio
Registered: 08/13/09
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Date Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 07:58:02 AM     view megapea profile  reply to this message  send private message to megapea 

I have a 1999 Mastercraft 230 VRS Maristar with the LT-1, and 630-V Hurth transmission. I bought it last fall and changed out all the fluids with synthetics. I've been running it quite a bit this season, and everything has been great. This past weekend I noticed that the tranny wasn't engaging reverse before the throttle started increasing. I figured that the tranny cable needed a little adjustment. I took a look today, and adjusted the cable, and figured while I had it all opened up, I would do another fluid change (Mobil One ATF) on the tranny. When I opened the filter lid, I was surprised to see my fluid looking like strawberry milk! How do you think the water got in the tranny? We did have some hard rains over the weekend and the bilge was pretty full in the morning ( I had it docked on the lake ) until I pumped it out. Is there a vent, a seal, or somewhere the water could have gotten in, or might it be the tranny cooler? I did winterize it last fall, and it was in heated storage, but do those coolers sometimes just fail? I have 498 hours on the boat. Any advice would be appreciated!

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6gun
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From: Michigan
Registered: 08/27/08
Posts: 7
Date Posted: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 10:45:00 AM     view 6gun profile  reply to this message  send private message to 6gun 

First, do not run it until the issue is fixed.  You could shell the tranny and end up spending $$$$'s.  On my boat, with a Velvet drive, there are 2 lines coming from the transmission running to a heat exchanger on the water intake hose from the fresh water pickup line.  These carry transmission fluid to a cooling jacket/heat exchanger.  Check to see if you have transmission fluid lines coming from your transmission to the cooling system.  First, i would suspect that the heat exchanger has a leak allowing cooling fluid or water (in my case) into the transmission fluid.  This would be where I would start as I would expect that it would be your only source for water intrusion.  I would replace the heat exchanger with new and flush and replace the transmission fluid.  Hopefully running with strawberry milk didn't do too much damage to the tranny.....

 
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