Re: Repowering from 88/Force-85hp to John-100hp
hmmmm weird. MY buddy has a 78 Evinrude 235 HP V-6. It originally came with the hydro electric shift lower unit on it. Well he blew that lower unit up real quick> we soon realized that the hydroelectric OMC lower unit is not only pricey but hard to get in Colorado.
So I found a guy in Florida who send us the entire intake manifold and linkage along with a mechanical shift lower unit. It took quite a bit of doing, a little grinding for clearance but all in all it was a simple swap and the mechanical shift setup if working perfect. Of course he blew up the mechanical shift lower unit as well. So he finally bit the bullet and had a high performance gearbox built, still about 1/2 the cost for the mechanical shift version compared to the hydro electric crapola....<br /><br />So if thats what you mean by electric shift it can be done, the intake manifold had to be swapped because it contained the pivot point for the shift linkage.<br /><br />It;s good to have the internet, otherwise we would still be looking for somebody to sell us a hydro electric shift lower unit....
