Ferm, Chum And The Rest. . . . .

[THEFERMANATOR]

Check the arm circled in red to see if it is loose on the shaft or if the roller in the end is broken. Then check to see if you have the large bushing like pictured circled in blue, or if you have a small bushing. Another area to check is where the yellow arrow is pointing. The cable could be loose and moving back and forth inside behind the allen screw.

[charlie_the_tuna]

ferm its all new.
i replaced the cable, etc. . . . . last season when i rebuilt the outdrive.

[C YENSEN]

never touched mine. and as far as I know it is all original to the boat. so in other words.......sorry Charlie, but I am helpless on this thread........

[THEFERMANATOR]

Just because it's new, don't meen there aint somethin wrong in there. If it's all new, I would check the part with the yellow arrow. I went through this on the SEA RAY last year. The cable loosened up in there after being shifted a few times, tightened that allen up and all was good.

[spareparts]

you are supposed to tighten the allen screw then back off till the slide will rotate freely, this keeps it from bindig up, there should be little to no end play in the slide. If you drop your lower unit to do a water pump, look at the shift shaft, make sure its stainless(shiney looking), look at the splines real carefull to make sure they aren't corroded. before mercruiser changed to stainless, i used to replace them all the time for sifting issues

[chumbucket]

I haven't responded because these guys are better than I am Chuck.

[charlie_the_tuna]

actually chumbo i was hoping you knew where the diagram could be found for the upper cable adjustment.