Re: Mercury outboard tilt problem
Hi
I am trying to remember how this worked, I think there was a push rod off a plastic cam on the shift shaft. The sloped cam rotated and locked it down in neutral and reverse. We used to take the cam off and grind the slope so it only pushed the rod up when the motor was in reverse, so it only locked in reverse. The cam also wore out, and you had to grease it. So the missing pieces are the rod from the cam up to the lever on the lock down bar, maybe the cam itself, and a spring that pulled the lock bar and hooks back up.
I just got a boat that has a 1980 40hp mercury outboard on it,the tilt on the outboard doesn't lock.The guy i bought the boat from said "now if you hit something the motor will just flip up".I want to get it working properly,the tilt is a manual one so there must of been some kind of lever on the outboard at one time,could some one sent some pics of the tilt locking mechanism or diagram of it,the outboard is a 1980 40hp mercury 
