Helping a friend out with his boat and wanted to see if you guys can give me some things to check. Tracker boat with Merc (I think 4.3L) I'm not sure, I know its a 2000 with a v-6 and Alpha 1 Gen II. The problem is the shift lever is just really hard to move. It goes in gear fine once you get the lever moved. I briefly looked at the cable mechanism on the engine and there is no rust or corrosion there, everything looks clean. Is there a way to lube the cable or the guts of the shift lever mechanism. I wish I had a picture of the shift mechanism for you. It does not have a neutral lever like mine does, you don't have to push anything to get it out of neutral, you just move the main lever forward. I went to download the manual from a boatfix link Don left on another thread, but all I got was the 14 pages of the table of contents, couldn't get to the rest of the manual. Thanks for the help.
