jolio55
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2010
- Messages
- 30
Hi Everyone!!
So Saturday I took my new (to me) 1986 Four Winns Horizon 190 out for the first time to Lake Pleasant with the family!! We had a blast, the boat started and ran great.... for the most part. I noticed a few times that going into either forward or reverse the outdrive made a click,click,click noise before going into gear, again it didn't do it every time. I put the throttle into gear from neutral slowly and smoothly. I have read that for some mercruisers that you are supposed to shift into gear fast, is this true with OMC too? The more I think about it, I think it only happened when the drive wasn't all the way down, like while unloading the boat or when docking in shallow water I pulled the drive up a bit just to be safe... Could this be a part of the problem? I didn't think drive position would really matter. Yes I am new to boating if you didn't already know..
When I went to buy the boat I had the previous owner start it up with the muffs on with the drive up and I put it into gear with no noise at all... I did notice after pulling the boat out of the water Saturday that the shift cables and wiring on the starboard side of the gunwhale where hanging down and I do know they weren't hanging down when I bought it. Upon closer inspection it appears that the zip ties holding the cable assembly to the upper portion of the gunwhale broke, possibly due to towing? Does anyone know how the cables are supposed to be mounted?? I see some longer screws that the old zip ties were hanging on, is this where it's supposed to mount? I am not positive this is my problem but at this point it is all I can think of, the boat and outdrive only have 320hrs on it and has been well taken care of.
Any advice and help would be appreciated I would like the issue resolved before I take her out again, I don't want to ruin anything.
-Joel
So Saturday I took my new (to me) 1986 Four Winns Horizon 190 out for the first time to Lake Pleasant with the family!! We had a blast, the boat started and ran great.... for the most part. I noticed a few times that going into either forward or reverse the outdrive made a click,click,click noise before going into gear, again it didn't do it every time. I put the throttle into gear from neutral slowly and smoothly. I have read that for some mercruisers that you are supposed to shift into gear fast, is this true with OMC too? The more I think about it, I think it only happened when the drive wasn't all the way down, like while unloading the boat or when docking in shallow water I pulled the drive up a bit just to be safe... Could this be a part of the problem? I didn't think drive position would really matter. Yes I am new to boating if you didn't already know..
When I went to buy the boat I had the previous owner start it up with the muffs on with the drive up and I put it into gear with no noise at all... I did notice after pulling the boat out of the water Saturday that the shift cables and wiring on the starboard side of the gunwhale where hanging down and I do know they weren't hanging down when I bought it. Upon closer inspection it appears that the zip ties holding the cable assembly to the upper portion of the gunwhale broke, possibly due to towing? Does anyone know how the cables are supposed to be mounted?? I see some longer screws that the old zip ties were hanging on, is this where it's supposed to mount? I am not positive this is my problem but at this point it is all I can think of, the boat and outdrive only have 320hrs on it and has been well taken care of.
Any advice and help would be appreciated I would like the issue resolved before I take her out again, I don't want to ruin anything.
-Joel