Nuetral button?

sweebs

Seaman
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My 1st boat had a button to push on the throttle control to allow starting the engine with the throttle open, I see no such button on my current boat a 1992 Thompson Calae 2000 (no safety tether either). Any ideas?
 

cr2k

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Mfg of boat not helpful as it could have anyone's power system. What is the engine/drive Merc outboard, Mercruiser i/o or inboard, OMC Force?

Some boxes you can pull the whole handle out away from the box and that is the shift disconnect. If it's fuel injected you don't use it to start.
 

sweebs

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My photo exceeds the 2 mb limit but it's a Morse and yes thank you! If I take both hands and pull laterally (the wood the control is mounted to flexes a lot) then the handle pops out and can then move control forward and remain in neutral. This has been a month process to get to this point after buying boat on ebay "with a bad starter' only to find out engine was seized from having sat for 8 years, I've had to tear motor completely down, did a lot of work, got it back together and now trying to get it to start. No luck yet but at least I now know how the throttle control works!
 
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