OMC Cobra Shift Adjustment question

[johnbo]

Hi,

First, I should mention that I have the Hastings web site data and the factory manual, but in trying to adjust my buddies '91 Reinell with a 5.0L OMC Cobra, I've run into something that I can't sort out.

We changed the shift cable and reinstalled the outdrive. Now trying to adjust the settings on the shift bracket. The problem is that it seems like I have too much travel in the remote control cable relative to the travel in the transom shift cable. I can get it pretty close, but even at this setting, the load lever is out of the detent by about a half a step on both full forward and full reverse.

I've slid the remote control cable to the top of its adjustment range, but it seems like it wants another 1/8 inch of adjustment range.

We did not change anything with the remote control. It may have been doing this with the previous cable as well, unfortunately, I didn't think to check this beforehand.. Maintenance has been a bit lax in the past. So this could have existed for some time.

I don't know if it is possible to adjust the cable travel at the remote control or not.

Any thoughts on what I did wrong? Or what to adjust?

Thanks,
johnbo

 

[johnbo]

Re: OMC Cobra Shift Adjustment question

Bump.

 

[marunr]

Re: OMC Cobra Shift Adjustment question

The only thing I can think of is this: I had a similar situation and it was resolved by pushing the entire lower shift cable down as far into the long black boot as possible. It seemed there was too much cable in between the boot and the shift interrupt unit and it was putting too much pressure against it. Hope this makes sense.

Anyway, I guess this is the big problem with the cobra outdrive. For something that requires such a precise adjustment, there is far too much slop in the whole cable assembly...very mickey mouse IMO. However, over the long haul, I have had relatively few problems with mine when it's been maintained properly.