Force 50 Hard shifting? adjusting the linkage?

[navy seal]

Hey guys. sorry to make a new tread but i have searched the site plenty and i feel that my problem is quite unique in the fact im pretty sure i know whats wrong but i have no idea on how to correct it. now whats happening here is this. my boat starts in neutral and the neutral safety switch is engaged. when i shift into reverse no problem. but if i shift into forward it will not shift until the control arm if almost a quarter of the way forward and the engine is revved up quite a bit, then it will slam into gear. i do a lot of trolling wile fishing and sometimes the engine will slip out of gear. and when i do go into forward gear to neutral it will kick into reverse. neutral is slightly forward of the neutral gear on the control arm. now can someone help me out on how i am supposed to snyc the throttle and gear shift cables? i am very manically inclined but just need a bit of help.

 

[flatcat77]

Re: Force 50 Hard shifting? adjusting the linkage?

i bet you just need to losten up the nuts on the cables and kind of resync it all. take your cover off. shift smothly into gear watching the butterfly in the carburator. if your throttling before it shifts into gear you could do some damage to your lower end gears. it might be the throttle cable too. you just have to kind of check it all out. shift it into gear and move it to WOT position and make sure your butterfly is opening up all the way and if it goes past center your throttle cable needs adjusted. let me know what you find out.


Matt

 

[Brian_in_Waterford]

Re: Force 50 Hard shifting? adjusting the linkage?

I have the same motor and a similar problem. The shift linkage adjustment coupling is inside the motor leg. The service manual recommends adjusting the coupling until the forward and reverse gear travel is equal. I'm going to try this out today to see if it fixes the problem.