Check your shift interupt switch. It is on the shift plate where the cable
form the helm connect sto the cable going to the out drive. With the engine
running, manually engaging the switch by pressing on th elever that actuates
it should kill the engine. Have someone pull the shift lever out of gear
and watch the switch, the switch should be actuating when trying to pull the
drive out of gear. Alpha's want to stay in gear due to the load on the gear
set. The shift interupt switch momentarily stalls the engine allowing it to
come out of gear easier. If it is not working or adjusted correctly it will
stay in gear until you move the shifter so much that it comes out and goes
into the opposite gear.

"Bob D." wrote in message
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I Seem to be having a problem shifting. For the sake of explanation I am
referring to the outdrive state (Foward-Neutral-Reverse) as well as
shift/throttle lever position (Foward-Neutral-Reverse).

If I'm in outdrive and lever neutral, I can go into forward or reverse
without any problem. When the tranmission is in gear, forward or reverse,
I have no difficulty shifting into lever neutral, but the drive remains in
gear. I can proceed past lever neutral to the opposite gear to get into
neutral but sometimes that results in going into gear, resulting in my
having to hunt for neutral.

Seeing as I have replaced the outdrive, and drive shift cable, and had the
drive shift cable adjusted by a "professional", does this mean the control
cable(s) need to be replaced? I would think the slop to find neutral
would only be noticible from either forward or reverse but not both. How
hard is replacing the control cable(s). Do the quicksilver control boxes
ever wear out?

Thanks in advance,

Bob Dimond