Late 80's 50hp Force outboard owners...

[gunner1]

Could someone please post a pic of their shifting linkage- in particular the bias of the adjustment screw on the leg. I want to make sure mine is right because I did a waterpump job last year but never re-adjusted it after I had to seperate them. I read the Clymer manual, but it only tells how to adjust for the neutral safety switch.

 

[roscoe]

Re: Late 80's 50hp Force outboard owners...

If you read carefully from pages 473 and 474, after the true neutral is found in steps 2-7, the jam nut and coupler are adjusted so that the interlock is depressed when the shift rod is in true neutral.

Sorry, can't give you a photo, but don't know what good it would do anyway.

If for some reason you don't have a neutral interlock, then you just adjust so that the rod is halfway between F and R when in neutral.

 

[gunner1]

Re: Late 80's 50hp Force outboard owners...

If you read carefully from pages 473 and 474, after the true neutral is found in steps 2-7, the jam nut and coupler are adjusted so that the interlock is depressed when the shift rod is in true neutral.

Sorry, can't give you a photo, but don't know what good it would do anyway.

If for some reason you don't have a neutral interlock, then you just adjust so that the rod is halfway between F and R when in neutral.

So basically it's either in forward, neutral, or reverse. There really isn't any in between. Thanks.