Hi, just recently bought a Bayliner 2655 Cierra Sunbridge with a siezed engine, found a marinised 350 chevy engine and had a mechanic swap the engines over and service the sterndrive.
It has been good until last weekend, i had been out on the water for about half hour, had started and stopped a few times early in the trip picking up people, after about 20 mins of cruising my mates boat stopped to i turned around and went back to him, when i went to pull out of gear the stick was tight to get into neutral, it came back to just near neutral as normal, but just wouldn't go the last little bit to get into neutral, as i pulled a bit harder the engine stalled and it went into neutral. When we were ready to go i started the boat and shifted into forward, it stalled. did this a few times and it would just stall each time.
I disconnected the wire for the shift interrupt switch from the coil, and we were good to go, i just had to flick the key off and on to get it out of gear for the rest of the day. Other than that no issues, no issues with gears engaging, and the stick doesn't feel any different, feels to have the same resistance as before when moving forward and back.
Went out for an hour Tuesday night and again everything felt fine, no issues with engaging gears or anything.
Everything i find when i search is people having issues with shifting, engaging gears, not engaging forwards or reverse properly, etc etc.
If the interrupt switch didn't stay engaged I wouldn't know there is an issue, everything feels the same as before, gears work perfectly as they did before, nothing seems to have changed.
Last night I removed the lower shift cable from the assemble to move it by hand, and yes it is tight... I need to use two hands and give it a good push or pull to make it move. Looking at a video about adjusting the cable, it mentioned about checking the play once its in gear, I cant do that as there is no difference in feeling as i pull the cable out, its too stiff to notice it.
Questions:
I am wondering if it is only this tight now, or has it been this tight since I got the boat working a month ago? If it has become this tight, how could that happen so quickly? one second out on the water its fine, next minute i go to put it back in forward gear and its too tight. I find it odd its too tight now but the resistance of the forwards/reverse throttle stick hasn't changed, it takes the same force to move it now as it did before, surely if the cable became tighter, the stick would be harder to move?
Is it the cable thats too tight, or could it possible be something in the sterndrive that is tight?
Could it possibly be something out of adjustment causing the interrupt switch to engage? When the mechanic installed the new engine and serviced the sterndrive, i don't think he did adjustments like i saw in the youtube video on adjusting the lower shift cable so maybe its not adjusted correctly?
If everything seems to be good, engages gears properly, and otherwise all seems good other than tripping the interrupt switch, is it ok to keep using the boat as is or could it somehow do damage to the dog clutches?
It has been good until last weekend, i had been out on the water for about half hour, had started and stopped a few times early in the trip picking up people, after about 20 mins of cruising my mates boat stopped to i turned around and went back to him, when i went to pull out of gear the stick was tight to get into neutral, it came back to just near neutral as normal, but just wouldn't go the last little bit to get into neutral, as i pulled a bit harder the engine stalled and it went into neutral. When we were ready to go i started the boat and shifted into forward, it stalled. did this a few times and it would just stall each time.
I disconnected the wire for the shift interrupt switch from the coil, and we were good to go, i just had to flick the key off and on to get it out of gear for the rest of the day. Other than that no issues, no issues with gears engaging, and the stick doesn't feel any different, feels to have the same resistance as before when moving forward and back.
Went out for an hour Tuesday night and again everything felt fine, no issues with engaging gears or anything.
Everything i find when i search is people having issues with shifting, engaging gears, not engaging forwards or reverse properly, etc etc.
If the interrupt switch didn't stay engaged I wouldn't know there is an issue, everything feels the same as before, gears work perfectly as they did before, nothing seems to have changed.
Last night I removed the lower shift cable from the assemble to move it by hand, and yes it is tight... I need to use two hands and give it a good push or pull to make it move. Looking at a video about adjusting the cable, it mentioned about checking the play once its in gear, I cant do that as there is no difference in feeling as i pull the cable out, its too stiff to notice it.
Questions:
I am wondering if it is only this tight now, or has it been this tight since I got the boat working a month ago? If it has become this tight, how could that happen so quickly? one second out on the water its fine, next minute i go to put it back in forward gear and its too tight. I find it odd its too tight now but the resistance of the forwards/reverse throttle stick hasn't changed, it takes the same force to move it now as it did before, surely if the cable became tighter, the stick would be harder to move?
Is it the cable thats too tight, or could it possible be something in the sterndrive that is tight?
Could it possibly be something out of adjustment causing the interrupt switch to engage? When the mechanic installed the new engine and serviced the sterndrive, i don't think he did adjustments like i saw in the youtube video on adjusting the lower shift cable so maybe its not adjusted correctly?
If everything seems to be good, engages gears properly, and otherwise all seems good other than tripping the interrupt switch, is it ok to keep using the boat as is or could it somehow do damage to the dog clutches?