"Tim" wrote in message
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| On Jul 8, 11:52 am, Tim wrote:
| On Jul 7, 12:02 pm, wrote:
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| A buddy of mine has a Crownline 20 foot bowrider, with quicksilver
| commander 3000 controls, a 350 MPI engine... at times, the engine
| won't fire or crank no click or nothing, however all electronics on
| board work properly. I.E. Bildge, blower, hatch, trim lights stereo
| so on so fourth, and when you take the power control lever, and run
| it full forward and full reverse then return it to neutral while the
| key is off, the engine will fire up right away.... I'm tempted to
| tell him to check the wires to the ignition switch from the neutral
| lock out switch, or the switch itself.. anyone have similar
| troubles?... how did it get resolved?..
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| Hmm, I don't kwow how that happened. I hit reply and it made a blank
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| Anyhow, I thinkt he problem is in the momentary kill switch.
| Mercruiser has a "kill" switch built into the mechanism, that will all
| the engin to be momtarily shut off while shifting to forward or
| reverse, to allow the gears to mech properly without any engine load.
| I feel it's not defective, but needs adjustment, but if it's
| defective, it's holding "open" untill the shift mechanism jars it
| loose.
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| just an opinion.
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That's a popular opinion but couldn't be further from the truth. The shift
interrupter will only cause the engine to stumble when pulling OUT of gear.
99.9% of the time that it closes and kills the ignition is because of a
problem with the lower cable or linkage.