77 mercury 115 timing idle adjustment

bigal84

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I am trying to get the idle down on my 77 mer 115 but the throttle cable does not allow you to retard the timing enough to do so. With the throttle cable barrel adjusted all the way back the distributor will only retard enough to allow the engine to run at about 2000 rpm. How do i advance the distributor forward more without advancing the timing to get more adjustment out of the distributor?
 

Barnacle_Bill

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Re: 77 mercury 115 timing idle adjustment

You need to do a link & sync according to your manual and it must be done in the steps given.
 
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