Hale K Gearbox, model year 9999. Filed by Hale Products Inc and reported to NHTSA on 5 October 2015. 51 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hale Products Inc. (Hale) is recalling certain K Gearboxes manufactured December 20, 2014, to August 3, 2015. These gearboxes are used in fire apparatus to transfer engine power from driving a fire hose pump to turning the vehicle driveshaft. The affected gearboxes, sizes XK and LK, may shift out of gear from "road" …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Hale's own number for this recall: SB 129. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15E081 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 15E081 cover?
- Hale K Gearbox.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hale Products Inc. (Hale) is recalling certain K Gearboxes manufactured December 20, 2014, to August 3, 2015. These gearboxes are used in fire apparatus to transfer engine power from driving a fire hose pump to turning the vehicle driveshaft.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the vehicle unexpectedly shifts to neutral on the way to attend a fire, the delay may hinder fire fighting efforts. Additionally, the loss of drive may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Hale will notify owners, and dealers will remove the gearbox and ship it to Hale to be remedied. Once repaired, it will be reinstalled. This work will be performed free of charge. The recall began on November 15, 2015. Owners may contact Hale customer service at 1-800-533-3569.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hale calls this recall SB 129, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the vehicle unexpectedly shifts to neutral on the way to attend a fire, the delay may hinder fire fighting efforts. Additionally, the loss of drive may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15E081 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hale Products Inc |
| System at fault | Power Train:Manual Transmission |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 October 2015 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | HALE K GEARBOX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the vehicle unexpectedly shifts to neutral on the way to attend a fire, the delay may hinder fire fighting efforts. Additionally, the loss of drive may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Hale will notify owners, and dealers will remove the gearbox and ship it to Hale to be remedied. Once repaired, it will be reinstalled. This work will be performed free of charge. The recall began on November 15, 2015. Owners may contact Hale customer service at 1-800-533-3569. Hale's number for this recall is SB 129.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 15E081, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15e081/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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- 19E055: SmartFoam 6
- 18E079: Kubota Diesel Powered Portable Pumps, part number 200779, revisions A through C
- 17E056: retaining rings, part number 077-0750-21-0, that secure the pressure relief valve in the water pumps used for fire fighting
- 17E009: Fire Pump Engagement Pressure Switches, part number 200-2560-00-0
- 16E038: Class 1 Es-Key power control modules, models PDM, HDPDM, SN, and SNII, manufactured February 28, 2006, to April 6, 2016
- 16E029: Portable Pumps powered with Yanmar 9 horsepower diesel engines, manufactured March 1, 2007, to December 11, 2015
- 16E027: 6 Inch Suction Strainers, part number 010-0030-00-0, manufactured July 15, 2015, to March 30, 2016
All 10 Hale campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 15E081 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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52a3800f - Remedy
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