Outboard prop only turns with motor tilted

[199540hpmerc]

I have a 1995 40hp Mercury on my Basstracker. Great motor and I have never had any issues with it.​

This year I took it out of storage and did all the regular maintenance to it as usual and put it on a water hose to run it a bit and noticed that the propeller will not turn when the motor is in a locked down position. ​

Checking everything over, I moved the motor to a half-tilt position and the propeller began to turn in proportion to the speed adjustment. However, again when I returned it to the straight down locked position as it would be in to run on the water, the propeller again will not turn.​

Any advice/help greatly appreciated. ​

 

[Sea Rider]

The issue happened while OB was running on muffs, hose whatever when idling at neutral or geared forward ? If at neutral is quite normal for prop to spin freely or not to do so.

Happy Boating

 

[ahicks]

I'm a little confused. When trying to turn the prop, is the engine running, or no? Is the engine in neutral?

 

[NYBo]

Welcome to iBoats! :welcome:

It sounds like a problem with the shift rod adjustment.

 

[QBhoy]

You mean it won’t turn when you put it into gear ? Or just it doesn’t free wheel ? Hopefully you don’t mean by hand, haha.
As mentioned above if it’s just when I’m neutral...sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, depending on angle etc.

 

[199540hpmerc]

40HP Prop Not Turning

Looking for some advice on an issue I am having with my propeller not moving when the engine is in the locked down running position.

Its a 1995 40hp Mercury.

This year I took it out of storage and did all the regular maintenance to it as usual and put it on a water hose to run it a bit and noticed that the propeller will not turn when the motor is in a locked down position. ​

Checking everything over, I moved the motor to a half-tilt position and the propeller began to turn in proportion to the speed adjustment. However, when I returned it to the straight down locked position as it would be in to run on the water, the propeller will not turn.​

Any advice/help greatly appreciated.​

 

[NYBo]

You already have responses to the first post you made on this subject. Multiple posts of the same question only confuses things.
https://forums.iboats.com/forum/gen...00-outboard-prop-only-turns-with-motor-tilted

 

[GA_Boater]

Looks like a copy/paste from the 1st to the 2nd thread. too.

Merged and moved to the Merc section cuz it ain't a prop problem.