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Boat won't go into gear
I would be looking at the control cable and the control box. Pull the
cowling off the engine and determine which cable is throttle and which is the shift. The disconnect the shift cable at the engine. Try to shift it manually at the engine with it running. Obviously you need to hook up water to the engine or back it into the water. Also keep any body parts out of the prop. Start it up and with the engine idling try to put it in either gear. If that works then try the other direction. If that works then the problem is the cable or the control box . With the cable still disconnected try to pull on it. If it pulls out all the way then the cable is broken and you need a new one. If it doesn't pull out then I would move the remote control (lever by the helm) into forward and then reverse while watching the cable end by the engine. The cable should only move as you move the control lever into gear. If it doesn't move or moves after you are into the throttle area of the control lever then I would suspect the control. Put a new control and new cables and you should be set. If shifting the engine manually does not work then the problem is in the lower unit. Good luck, Justin "Travis" wrote in message oups.com... I recently bought a used boat. When I took it out on the lake, I had trouble getting it to go into gear. I had to try numerous times. The engine would rev up, but it would not go into forward or reverse. About one out of every 30 tries of pushing the throttle all the way forward would make it jerk into gear. Once I finally got into into gear, it would go fast with no problem, but when I put it back into neutral, I had the same problem again. What could the issue be and how expensive is it to have fixed? |
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