Monday, 26 January 2026

And a Happy Surprise

I did a search for a Kanzaki website, and found this: Kanzaki Gears.

It links to what looks like the main (English) Yanmar web page, where there is a 'contact us' link which allowed me to ask about the consequences of running my gearbox in reverse for many hundreds of hours.

The answer I got, from a credible source, is that running the KMP3 in 'reverse' is absolutely fine.

So...

Maybe I'll just leave it that way, and continue to use my old gearbox.

After all, I have a spare now, if I need it ....


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And a Happy Surprise

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