new here so bear wth me.. i have 87 searay w/ 165merccruiser i/o i am having a little truoble w my reverse.. going into forward is great but when the boat is running and im in forward slowing down very slow and trying to go into nuetral it is very hard to pull the shifter back and then it will just jump into reverse and then if i push forward it will go into nuetral. if im just sitting and try to go into reverse it will grind a little then clunk into reverse but sometimes the rpm will alrready be increasing before ot goes into reverse.
so i checked the motor space and noticed some metal shavings near the rear of the motor were the inboard attaches to the motor. and there was a little plug laying there looked like a drain plug but smaller mabye 3/4 of an inch long and 5/16 wide wondering if ther is a resavour for tranny fluid or something mabye i have no fluid and its grinding the gears .
as you can tell from description this is my first boat and im not to mechanically inclined..
the boat only has 350 hrs on the entire boat as it sat for a lot of years only being used once a year then having fluids changed and stored for the next year.
so i checked the motor space and noticed some metal shavings near the rear of the motor were the inboard attaches to the motor. and there was a little plug laying there looked like a drain plug but smaller mabye 3/4 of an inch long and 5/16 wide wondering if ther is a resavour for tranny fluid or something mabye i have no fluid and its grinding the gears .
as you can tell from description this is my first boat and im not to mechanically inclined..
the boat only has 350 hrs on the entire boat as it sat for a lot of years only being used once a year then having fluids changed and stored for the next year.
