Mercury outboard, Evinrude controls?

[chrizzo]

I just got ahold of a 1990 Nitro bass boat. The stock evinrude outboard blew and is long gone, but the stock controls remain. The boat came with a Mercury Black Max 150hp, not installed. I haven't pulled the serial # yet to see the model year, the guy I got it from said he was told it was an 82 but it looks to me like it could be a bit older, maybe even 78 or 79?

Anyways, I have the controls for the Merc, but I was wondering is there any way to adapt the stock controls on the boat to work with the Merc? I know at the least I can mount the Merc's controls in the boat and go that route, but it would be nice to keep the stock look if possible.

Thanks...

 

[JB]

Re: Mercury outboard, Evinrude controls?

Use the Merc controls. The Evinrude controls won't adapt.

 

[chrizzo]

Re: Mercury outboard, Evinrude controls?

Ok that's what I'll do...just thought I'd ask if there was a simple adapter or something, guess not. I should at least be able to get the tach and spedo to hook up, right? Also, how about the steering? I know the cables that are hooked up to the merc are longer and the ones in my boat are already the right size, should those work?

I still haven't gotten a chance to look at everything, and also once I get a minute to pull the model # I'm going to order a book for it, which should help.

thanks for the response
-chris