The service bulletin for my V6 specs the idle at 650-700 "in forward gear".

"Ree-Yees" wrote in message
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What should I idle at? I have it set about 700 right now.

You are correct that inbetween forward and idle, idle and forward, etc the
engine cuts out and then back in.


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 May 2004 07:48:18 -0500, "Ree-Yees"
wrote:
I would say that 2 out of 3 times when I slowly go from idle to reverse
the
engine will die (or almost die but I put it back in idle). The other
time
it goes into reverse just fine and I back on up.

Forward never seems to have this problem.

Anyone else have this problem?

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Yes, it sounds like you have a Mercruiser Alpha I/O.

You need to get the shift interupter adjusted (best left to the
experts in my experience). The interupter switch momentarily cuts out
the ingnition when shifting. Another possibility is that your idle
speed is set too low.