Eric, I agree with your statement that rigging wire does not usually fail without there being some fairly obvious problem with it. I have been on boats with rigging failures, have rerigged a lot of bo

Christian Alby, I have never seen a problem where the oil pressure on an engine would drop as engine RPM was increased. The only explanation that I can think of is a mechanical failure of the oil pump

Bill, Well put! I admire your desire to sail as much as possible with your boat. Happy Holidays to you and the other Amel owners! Best, James SV Sueño Maramu #220

Christian Alby, First thanks for letting me know that your buzzer apparently comes on at 1 bar, that is something that I was wondering about and could not find the data online. Ok, so your oil pressur

Miles, If you have not yet done so, check to be sure that the drag is all of the way off on the wheel. I think that I read a while back that the steering cables are sealed but get someone to verify th

Christian Alby, Thanks for the initial update on your rebuilt Perkins. The Perkins 4-154 manual that I just checked is showing the normal oil pressure to be between 30-60 PSI or about 2.1- 4.2 bar at

Miles, If you want to provide an email address, I can send you photos of Sueño in the slings. One other thing to consider is the location of any custom thruhull fittings on your boat, especially senso

Gabriele, I have not yet visited Columbia.. Your english is fine, no problem. I will post what I find out about the coolers sold by Foley. Thanks for planning to provide the information that you have

christian alby, Thanks for taking the time to update us on your freshly rebuilt 4-154 along with verifying the cause of the failure. I hope that the engine provides you many years of good service. If

Bill, The Foley website refers to this number on the basis of some customers that were replacing or rebuilding their transmissions at about 1000 hours. https://www.foleyengines.com/tech-tip-106-zfhurt

Dave, I discovered while searching online that Foley used to source their coolers from Germany but stopped doing so because they were corroding too quickly. I am guessing that these might be the same

Gabriele, I am glad that you are having good luck! Thanks for the tip on the Militec-1, what I have read about the product sounds very promising. I will order some and give it a try. So if I understan

Hi Eric, Did you mean to type 6000 hours or miles? Best, James SV Sueno, Maramu #220

Gabriele Anolini, That is amazing, you must be taking exceptional care of your transmission. Do you have a cooler on your transmission? Foley seems to be saying that 1000 hours is about all that we sh

Dave, Thanks for this information. At least I now know that at least some of the Hurth 250 transmissions installed on Maramu’s are lasting longer than the 4,000 hours that mine has. So far my transmis

All, I got a quick response from Foley with regards to stainless the trans cooler and a question about the approximate life expectancy for my Hurth 250 transmission. It appears that my trans might be

Mike, My Maramu has a plate mounted just in front of the shift lever warning to never leave the transmission in Fwd. gear while sailing. My boat has a fixed 20” (?) 3 blade prop which can produce a la

Herbert, I agree with you and Bill that ATF fluids are becoming a bit confusing. Just to add a bit more information or possibly confusion... FoleyEngines who sells new and rebuilt Hurth transmissions

Lisa, I was rereading the thread on your apparent transmission problem and thought of one easy thing that you might want to try. Verify that the shift linkage is moving the shift lever on the transmis

Lisa, It might be wise to begin the process of locating a replacement transmission. It sounds like you have probably found your problem. I was able to continue to use my boat with the transmission sli