Transmission won't go into gear - 08 210

[Chad52]

This afternoon I was out on my 210 enjoying a lot of glass. We were on our 3rd set of the afternoon when just when the boat had got up on plane, it dropped out of gear into neutral. Our first thought was that it had somehow spun the prop off. But upon checking, everything seemed fine. Prop was still there, no breakers tripped, no cables broke, all linkages still moving correctly, all fluids good, etc. The boat just would not go into gear. Even when we disconnected the cable on the top of the transmission and manual actuated it, the boat still would not go into gear. Had to swim it in a very long way. Has anybody seen this type of thing happen before and can tell me something simple to check, else I think my transmission may be shot and my season may be over. Any ideas?

[Latonkaboarder]

You said the prop was still there. Is there somehow the prop cam loose and you lost the key on the prop shaft causing the shaft to still spin but not the prop? Keep us posted on what you find.

[Chad52]

Nope, everything looks good. All the info that I've got says that the transmission is toast. It's at the dealer now...

[Chad52]

Dealer informed me today that it was the dampener plate. Anybody every had one of these go bad before???

[Miljack]

Check on here, I believe there was a problem with the '08 damper plates. Any warranty left? PCM is aware of the problem, but did not issue a recall.

[scottb7]

This thread talks a little about damper plate on 2008/2009's

http://www.planetnautique.com/vb3/sh...of-White-Smoke

[xrichard]

Even if you're out of warranty, press to get it fixed w/o charge. It's a known problem--PCM authorized replacement of mine without a water test or other diagnosis...just based on my description of the problem (....which was a rattle at the time). I was in warranty.

[Chad52]

This is the damper plate that failed causing my transmission problems and subsequently very long swim. You can see where the weld broke.

Chad

[tourpro]

One tack? Thats it? Coming from a welder / fitter / machinist ... that would never hold. Even if the centre piece was press fit I would have at least put three good size tacks on it.

Can it be fit up and re-welded?

[81nautique]

re-welded? NO, you throw it away and put a new one in. I can only imagine where these parts are being sourced these days.

[tourpro]

Its not like alignment would be difficult to attain if you know what you're doing.