I agree with your suspicion about the shift cable being a possible source of
the trouble. Temporarily disconnecting the interupt switch would be an easy
and positive test to confirm.

"JIMinFL" wrote in message
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"JamesgangNC" wrote in message
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The service manuals have very specific instructions for how to adjust the
shift cable and the switch after you replace it. A lot of people have
trouble with it though. Imho it's a bit of a rig. I'm surprised they
couldn't figure out something more straight forward.

In theory accelerating is not supposed to have any effect, The control
should only be moving the throttle cable once it has shifted into gear.
The throttle cable is completely independent of the shift cable and is
easy to adjust. But since you already had cable trouble I'm still
inclined to suspect it first.

"bayplyer" wrote in message
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Sounds like the cable tension is critical and I need to replace them.
Will I run into the cable adjustment brain damage by replacing the two
cables that run from the remote control to the parallelogram?



The cables can be mis adjusted so that there is movement in the shift
cable after the drive is in gear. this will put tension on the interrupter
lever and it could trip the interrupter switch. Often people try to
compensate for worn or damaged linkage and sterndrive parts by
misadjusting the cables. This could lead to more problems. When everything
is in good mechanical condition, the cables are easy to set up.