Re: First time in the water with the boat couple of questions
I will check it again but I could not get it to go into reverse with the cable disconnected. Your talking about the cable that moves the lever left to right on the shift plate correct?? Is there something special you have to do to get it to engage reverse. When we were on the water reversed worked a couple of times but the quit working.
As you are facing the shift converter box, the lever/arm on the face of it moves center (neutral) to left (reverse) or to right (forward).
The center position should be about in the middle of the scale decal that should be on the plate, behind/above the arm. Very roughly, the arm should move about 1" to the left or right of the center neutral position to engage reverse or forward. It is best to run this test with the motor idling.
Also, the arm will not necessarily be centered on the graph detail. It is only a rough guide. If you have your throttle shift cable disconnected and a gear does not engage within that approximate one inch swing of the converter lever, then there is something wrong inside the drive. One possible problem area, if someone had it apart, is that they did not properly time the the little wheel and shift rack that is at the other end of the shift cable. (on top of the lower gearbox).
I am not sure if there is ever any problem with stretched shift cables. I am sure that in their live span they could stretch a little but that should be accountable in the throttle/shift cable adjustment.
