90elpto rev problem not controls or cable

[zenchal26]

Friend of mine let someone use his boat at a family outing and the guy revved the eng up and slammed it into rev. Now it won?t fully engage into rev, out of the water it will spin in rev but in the water it will not move the boat in rev. Checked the linkage in the control box, and disconnected the cable from motor and tried to put it in manually, it went in once but not again. I pulled the lower unit off and turned the shift shaft on the unit it seems to rotate to far to me. How far should the shaft rotate? I would think 1/4 turn from fwd through neut to rev, no? Any Ideas on what could be wrong with it? Trying to gather some info before I pull the unit apart.

 

[sschefer]

Re: 90elpto rev problem not controls or cable

Drain the oil out of the gearcase and look for chunks of metal. It sounds like the action of his friend sheared the dogs off the clutch in the gearcase. Gonna run ya 250-350 to get it fixed maybe more now that the season is in full tilt.

Hope you have insurance.

 

[zenchal26]

Re: 90elpto rev problem not controls or cable

Drained the oil no chunks were seen, does not mean they are not in there though. To get to the clutch do I have to pull the entire lower unit apart or just to the fwd gear?

 

[sschefer]

Re: 90elpto rev problem not controls or cable

Don't know for sure, I haven't invested in the tools to do it so I just send mine out. I've seen my share of sheared dogs though...

Pop the cover on the motor and look at the shift cable linkage. It may be that the force of slamming it in broke the braket.. I've seen that also.

 

[zenchal26]

Re: 90elpto rev problem not controls or cable

checked that all ready, I guess I'm just going to have to rip it apart.