Broken transmission Ski Nautique 196 -07

Thank you everybody!
Today the weather was non-rainy, since I dont have a garage to tinker in today was a good day.

As I got tipped about here, the damper on the flywheel is broken.

Thanks again for the help!

/Jake

Peter,
Thanks for being patient with me. Lets see if I got this right now.
So the clutches (there are two, forward and reverse?) need oil pressure to work.
With some kind of crack or leaking inside the transmission pressure can not be built up and because of this the engines rotation cant translate to rotation of the prop shaft since the clutch cant engage.

Am I right?

So its something else since I cant get into any gear?

And a cracked pump drum equals in zero pressure in the transmission which menas no pressure to select a gear.

If the pump drum is cracked wouldnt there be transmission fluid leaking? When I drained the old fluid there was the right amount 1.9 liters.

If the damper is broken wouldnt there be some kind of rattling noise when I engage a gear?

Today I changed the trans fluid. The old one was red and no metal flakes or anything else that shouldnt be there. The new one is Dexron III and I think the old one was that aswell. After I had changed I started the engine and waited with the engine in idle until it was att working temperature then I tried to engage both forward and reverse and it doesnt come into gear.

So now ive towed the boat across the lake and now I have her on a trailer outside the house. Ive gotten my hands on the manual for the transmission and I intend to start troubleshooting tomorrow.

Any ideas where to start?
Should I take the trans out or keep it in the boat and try there first?

Along with what Pete Said it's either a Pump Drum cracked or the center blew out of the Damper/Coupler!!!! Both can be checked with dis-assembly. If the Regulator spring broke the thing would still have enough pressure to try to rotate the shaft either direction when shifted!!!

Should he confirm his linkage is OK or that the trans is being shifted first?
Believe that is a TBW boat,, is the trans still shifted with a cable??

When I pull the lever (by hand and not using the cable) I dont feel any ressistance if you would call it that, but I hear when the electric switch goes on and off. The switch that tells the electrics if it is in neutral or not, since you cant crank the engine with anything except neutral engaged. The prop shaft does not move when I try to engage it and then rev the engine, I can turn it by hand both in forward, neutral and reverse. When I turn it it doesnt sound wierd or broken (note that I havent turned it when it worked so I could be wrong, but I have help from a car mechanic and he doesnt think that it should sound any other way). The transmission fluid is checked and no metal flakes in.

When it happened did the engine suddenly rev? Can you turn the prop shaft at all by hand (with the engine off, please)?

Fluid checked.
No bang or rattling noise, the engine reved since the transmission "came into neutral".

Hi everybody!

I bought my first boat little more than one week ago and it has been really fun. But yesterday when I was taking of I came a couple hundred yards out on the lake and then the boat stopped and wont come into gear. I've tried to choose gear with the cable de-attached and it doesnt work.

I understand that the transmission is broken, but how serious is it?
Is this something you can fix by yourself?
Since I live in Sweden the summer is short and parts are kinda hard to come by, so I need a good and quick fix.

The boat has a little more than 1400 hours on its neck. It is a PCM 5.7l 343hp Excalibur engine with a PCM 1.23:1 Transmission.

Thank for the help!


/Jake