Lou C
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Sounds like you tried to cover all the bases...
questions...
did you check the drag of the shift cable with it disconnected at both ends with a fish scale? should be not more than 2.5 lbs, the drag on the cable is pretty important...
also if you shifted the lower unit when it's off the boat, with someone turning the prop shaft or the driveshaft, does it shift relatively easily from N to F and from N to R?
Is the shifter bellcrank in pivot housing moving easily, these can get crudded up by deposits from water getting past that gasket...
Stiffness can be the control, control remote cable, transom shift cable, the shifter bellcrank in the pivot housing, or inside the lower unit. Since you just had yours re-done, that's probably not it.
Based on what you're saying about what you tried, it does sound like it could be the control unit. My original OMC one shifts very easily, almost too easily, the neutral detent is not that positive.
the water in the gear oil could have been the seal in the water pump adapter, TC has a video that shows how to change that, they also sell a modified part with an extra seal in addition to the standard one, I would do a pressure and vacuum test on the unit.
BTW, what did you think of TC's work, did they do well by you?
questions...
did you check the drag of the shift cable with it disconnected at both ends with a fish scale? should be not more than 2.5 lbs, the drag on the cable is pretty important...
also if you shifted the lower unit when it's off the boat, with someone turning the prop shaft or the driveshaft, does it shift relatively easily from N to F and from N to R?
Is the shifter bellcrank in pivot housing moving easily, these can get crudded up by deposits from water getting past that gasket...
Stiffness can be the control, control remote cable, transom shift cable, the shifter bellcrank in the pivot housing, or inside the lower unit. Since you just had yours re-done, that's probably not it.
Based on what you're saying about what you tried, it does sound like it could be the control unit. My original OMC one shifts very easily, almost too easily, the neutral detent is not that positive.
the water in the gear oil could have been the seal in the water pump adapter, TC has a video that shows how to change that, they also sell a modified part with an extra seal in addition to the standard one, I would do a pressure and vacuum test on the unit.
BTW, what did you think of TC's work, did they do well by you?
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