Re: Boat made noise and now acts like it is in neutral. 91 searay 4.3 in/out board
Greetings and welcome. If you search the threads on this forum, you'll find numerous ones similar to yours. Can you provide more info on the symptoms, like what kind of noise, did you smell anything, did your water temp go up after the event? Sounds like it could be: Blown engine coupler (symptom is smell of burnt rubber in engine compt. and an increase in engine water temp due to lack of cooling water from the outdrive), bad coupling splines (might see metal flakes around the coupling area in the engine compt, same symptom with the water temp), broken U-joint(s), stripped upper gears in the outdrive, Broken vertical shaft in the outdrive, spun prop hub, etc. Shift cable bad or out of adjustment can result in the symptom of engine dying when shifting to reverse. Have you got it out of the water so you can do some diagnostics and dissassembly/inspection?