Have a used 1998 boat I bought this summer with mercury 75hp engine. Did well until yesterday. Put it in reverse and sounded like it was trying to go forward but more slowly and at higher RPM than typical when going forward normally.
I checked under my steering wheel console where the shifter is. There are 2 black cables coming off the shifter. It looks like each is held into the shifter by a little plastic piece that attaches around a gold metal area on each cable. One of those plastic pieces broke and so now 1 cable moves very freely when shifting to where you can actually see the silver looking cable that is underneath the black sheath.
I'm not sure where to get this plastic part that is supposed to hold the cable sheeth against the shifter.
I checked under my steering wheel console where the shifter is. There are 2 black cables coming off the shifter. It looks like each is held into the shifter by a little plastic piece that attaches around a gold metal area on each cable. One of those plastic pieces broke and so now 1 cable moves very freely when shifting to where you can actually see the silver looking cable that is underneath the black sheath.
I'm not sure where to get this plastic part that is supposed to hold the cable sheeth against the shifter.