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Thank you for all your previous help! I managed to get the motor swapped over from the other boat and am happy with how it's running, seems to be running smooth now and have the cowl put back on. Todays project will be adding a 2nd battery with Blue Sea ADD-A- Battery kit, should be interesting.

Thank you! I will focus on that!

I am from Lethbridge, Alberta Canada, small city with two shops. I make my post because I don't want to screw anything up. The motor was left to die on a dead boat and with very little knowledge of outboards and youtube, I was able to bring it back to almost factory condition. I'm actually a...

Sorry for your frustrations of my duplicate posts and posting in the wrong spot. I am fairly new here and still learning how to navigate my way around not to mention, when I do make a post I get some stupid bad gateway 503 message and have no idea my post went thru or not....

So I adjusted the throttle lever screw a bit but also noted the amount and direction of turns I made. I got the motor running better then it was but was asking how I could bring the RPMs down a bit more, seems a touch higher then I like, but what do I know. As for the Actual Mercury Manual?? I...

I was wondering if someone could please tell me, my 1979 80 hp Mercury seems to be idling a little high in neutral, how do I turn it down a bit? Thanks!

Hi everyone, I've almost got the 80 hp set up, just having issues with the idle. So.. I have a quick Silver controller with the lever behind gear selector and with it in the up position, the motor starts and runs pretty good. Motor slows down as I move lever down but almost down the motor...

Ok guys, I figured it out and my bolt was way too tight at the shifter( I didn't know how tight it had to be). Now my problem is I can't keep the motor running, I played with I believe that fast idle screw the other day but that's all I touched. can someone please walk me thru setting this up...

I checked at the helm and its all good, the controls when hooked to motor won't budge at all

Yes, when the cables are not hooked up it shifts perfectly. Could you maybe explain the preload thing? I don't know what that means. I am able to shift into gears with the cables not hooked up.

Ok I know which one is which but when I hook them up it’s really hard to move into either gear, when they are unhooked from the motor, they move really nice. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Oh I see. So if I swap them too for bottom, it might work then?

So what I have done is, swapped motor from another boat to my boat and didn’t use the controller from that boat but instead used a quick silver controller I had laying around that I want to use as the controller from other boat is older, It’s all Mercury and I thought it was all the same. Can I...

I have a question about my boats control system. I have an older boat and bought a good used boat that had a better motor on it. The new boat has a controller on it but I wanted to use a quick silver controller that I had. I have since swapped motors and installed this quick silver controller...

Thank you for all that information, I got the gearcase back together and working. I'm now having troubles with the controller. The motor starts really good, idles a little high but when I move the throttle a little into forward position, the engine starts to rev really high and then when I move...

Could someone help me please? I was able to get my 1979 80 hp started but something doesn't seem correct. It starts pretty good but if I go to move it out of neutral, it revs really high, I don't dare to see if it goes into forward gear. any info on this would be greatly appreciated thanks.

Thanks for the info, I’ve been doing all this but still having troubles in the final step (getting the shift shafts to mate). Rocking the throttle handle, do you mean side to side or front to back? Been doing it alone cause I don’t have any help. Thanks

I’m having trouble getting the lower shift rod to mate, any tricks to get it in would be appreciated. Thanks

What’s the best way to get get the lower shift rod to mate?

Does it matter what position they’re in? Can I just pick one but as long as both are the same?