Hynautic Hydrauliс Controls

Sorry it's 954-895-487nine. The filter is usually a S/S mesh screen if I remember correctly.

He'd work on them for me, but I send him a ton of business every year for the past 20 years. None of us have worked on Hynautics in 20 years, they're practically extinct down here just like detroits. That being said he mentioned that you mentioned all of your stations are stiff, I've usually found a stainless screen in the bottom of the resevoir but in the fitting that screws onto the bottom of the resevoir. But, it all of the stations are stiff, the commonality is at the motors and gears. They may have a filter in each actuator as well or in a block where all the lines go into may also have a filter. Are all of the stations working? Are they all equally stiff? Both gears and throttles? How long have they been stiff? It's been 20 years since I messed with Hynautic also so trying to go by memory. You know it's probably more cost effective to rip out all of the hynautic and go with electronic controls for the helm and tower and do away with the other stations, when you consider everyone's hourly rate and hunting down and ordering hynautic parts. Because by the time you're done screwing around with the Hynautic to get everything right, you'll have spent as much. It's obsolete and any parts needed in the future will be impossible to obtain........

The filters are inside the system, nothing more than metal screens, you will not see them unless you start dissassembling things. They're not external filters that screw on. Trust me when I tell you this, electronic controls are very reliable these days and I'd rip out those antiquated controls quicker than quick and replace them, you're going to spend a lot of money trying to fix them.

Splash search the forum for my post about retrofitting electronic controls on a mechanical engine. I think you will find it helpful. My memory is suspect but I believe Glendenning at that time offered a mechanical backup. To help in your decision I believe to rebuild my single station system was $14,000. I like you didn’t like the lightning vuneralability and the low voltage gremlins that would pop up at the worst times. Maybe that has all been worked out.

Everything on your Hynautic system is 30+ years old and very very prone to failure at this point. You have 100's of feet of hydraulic hose that is past it's lifespan......if that breaks anywhere, and I mean anywhere, you just lost everything. Maybe even lost it stuck in gear!!!!! You can figure out a way to get things moving if you lose electronic controls, shift gears manually in ER, etc...... Hynautic is so passed it's lifespan you can't really even find replacement parts to keep it up and running. I've been down this road a bunch of times on yachts and it's time to just retrofit, otherwise you end up spending a ton of money and still have old junk that's ready to fail........and end up retrofitting electronic controls 1-2 years down the road after you've already dumped that same money on fixing the hynautic, then a year later fixing something else on it, and etc.