Forward and reverse gear settings?

howiewowie

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it is a 1979, 80 horse mercury 850 4 cylinder outboard to get it reverse gear we had to adjust it to push it all the way back total in the slider bracket but now it wont go in forward gear when set for forward then no reverse or just wont lock in turning prop by hand it clicks so we need to know what this problem is, thank you
 
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Maxz695

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Re: Forward and reverse gear settings?

Are you manually shifting the lever in the engine or shifting with the throttle?
 

howiewowie

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Re: Forward and reverse gear settings?

shifting with the throttle after setting cable rod
 
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Maxz695

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Re: Forward and reverse gear settings?

Your cable may be stretched. Try disconnecting the cable on the motor and manually shifting the engine in all 3 gears. If the prop locks in one direction while in forwards and spins freely in the other direction that is good. it should spin freely in both directions in Neutral and lock in both directions in reverse. If all this is good then set the cabel adjustment. In neutral on the shifter an neutral at the engine side. line the adjuster barrel up with the hole it locks in and line the end of e sifter cable up with the linkage cable lock down. Attach both and re check the shifting for full forwards and reverse corresponding with the description of the prop I gave you in the begining of this reply. If you still can,t get reverse or forwards your cable may be no good
 

howiewowie

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Re: Forward and reverse gear settings?

when we shifted manually forward and reverse it locks in gear just fine We just replaced a new controller box with cables when the cable is hooked up we had to set bolt placment near all the way towards front of motor for it to push the cable rod all the way back to lock in reverse but then no forward gear and visa versa for forward gear setting lock in
 
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Maxz695

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Re: Forward and reverse gear settings?

see if there are adjustment screws on the end if the cable attachments. Some cables have them.There little square bolts. Did you replace the shifter with the same shifter? Or at least a mercury shifter? Or is it a universal shifter? Are the cables new? Or come with the shifter? Or are you using the old cables?
 
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Maxz695

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One more thing. Is the shifter unhooked traveling full distance forwards and backwards F <---^---> R and does it feel restricted when hooked up to the engine? Make sure your using the right cable on the right thing. the shifter cable moves before the throttle cable. It,s possible you have them visa versa
 

howiewowie

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Re: Forward and reverse gear settings?

the new cable has a shorter hook up rod compared to the old one well we took the old cable rehooked it up to shifter in the cowel and just went in and out by hand manual (the old controller box was worn out cam)and it shift the gears perfect foward and reverse we will rig up a second shift lever next to control box and that will be fine we done tryed it out at the river running the shifter manually and worked just fine thx guys
 
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