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that's a Uflex, its pretty good, the factory Mercruiser controls were junk, use a Uflex or teleflex and you'll be OK, don't get a Hi-lux either, they're junk. Uflex was the manufacture for teleflex before teleflex was bought out by taylor Industries, that also bought Morse, the Morse cables were better than the teleflex so they just kept using their cables and branding them teleflex, this left the Uflex company with out a retailer, so they started distributing their own goods. I've installed a couple of their shifter and they are pretty good.