Thanks in advance for answering my question.
A couple weeks ago was out with some friends at the lake and was cruising towards shore to beach the boat and I was unable to take it out of gear, it was stuck. So I killed the motor and drifted in, problem was it still would not come out of gear, with very little effort trying to put it into Neutral I heard a snap and suddenly had no throttle, though I could shift it forward, I could shift it into Neutral and I can put it in reverse.
This is a 1976 Johnson Seahorse 55 HP with a homemade center console on a pontoon, I do not know if the controls are the OEM for this actual motor. When I looked underneath it appears that the top half of a plastic piece that was attached to the shifter broke off, the bottom half is still intact and It seems that is connected to the shift cable, whereas the top half was connected to the throttle, I can still manually push and pull the throttle cable but its a bear, the rest of the weekend was a nightmare driving the boat because of that,
A few more tid bits on these controls, when the motor was ice cold the mechanism to warm it up was to pull the throttle out (pop it out) from the outside and throttle up or down until the motor was warm, and then when warm you would pop it back in, push the button and shift to put it in gear....
My question is, what is that piece called? Looking around it seems that part is no longer manufactured? is there a 3rd party alternative to reconnecting that cable to the control? I am on a tight budget right now and am hoping I dont have to buy a whole new set of controls, and even if I do I dont even know where to start...
I made a crude drawing in paint of what is broken.
Thanks
Adam
A couple weeks ago was out with some friends at the lake and was cruising towards shore to beach the boat and I was unable to take it out of gear, it was stuck. So I killed the motor and drifted in, problem was it still would not come out of gear, with very little effort trying to put it into Neutral I heard a snap and suddenly had no throttle, though I could shift it forward, I could shift it into Neutral and I can put it in reverse.
This is a 1976 Johnson Seahorse 55 HP with a homemade center console on a pontoon, I do not know if the controls are the OEM for this actual motor. When I looked underneath it appears that the top half of a plastic piece that was attached to the shifter broke off, the bottom half is still intact and It seems that is connected to the shift cable, whereas the top half was connected to the throttle, I can still manually push and pull the throttle cable but its a bear, the rest of the weekend was a nightmare driving the boat because of that,
A few more tid bits on these controls, when the motor was ice cold the mechanism to warm it up was to pull the throttle out (pop it out) from the outside and throttle up or down until the motor was warm, and then when warm you would pop it back in, push the button and shift to put it in gear....
My question is, what is that piece called? Looking around it seems that part is no longer manufactured? is there a 3rd party alternative to reconnecting that cable to the control? I am on a tight budget right now and am hoping I dont have to buy a whole new set of controls, and even if I do I dont even know where to start...
I made a crude drawing in paint of what is broken.
Thanks
Adam
