No forward or reverse

[Fish Hound]

I have a 1995 25hp Mercury and was fishing Blue Springs area of Beaver (no fish) and after beaching the boat to back trailer down ramp, pushed off jumped back in boat, started it up, put in reverse and nothing. Put in forward and nothing so had to limp up to trailer with trolling motor. This not a tiller steer motor so what would be first thing to check the linkage and cable? Did not hit anything that I know of and there is no clunking sound or grinding noise at all just nothing to the prop. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks

[fishinwrench]

See if the shift cable end is moving.  

Might be the shift detent in the control box, or a broken cable.   

[Fish Hound]

Thanks Wrench, will hopefully have time to get into it this weekend. I've got a BYT book (before you tube) on this motor but will probably end up looking on line for some how to tips and tricks. There was somebody most of the forum seemed to like on you tube so will search him out.

Thanks again

 

 

[Fish Hound]

ok found problem but not sure name of the part. Control arm anchor pin? It is split which let the control arm pull out. Not finding a replacement online. Is there a site that has these? Thanks

[Fish Hound]

I think I found it. A shift linkage socket connector part # 817428.

[fishinwrench]

Nothing pisses me off worse than Mercury and their use of cheesy plastic stuff on critical components that will leave you stranded when they snap.

[MrGiggles]

3 hours ago, Fish Hound said:

I think I found it. A shift linkage socket connector part # 817428.

Check ebay. Aftermarket companies are reproducing some of those obscure plastic doodads that are NLA from Merc, NLA Marine is one of them. There are some sellers with NOS stuff as well.

[fishinwrench]

13 hours ago, MrGiggles said:

Check ebay. Aftermarket companies are reproducing some of those obscure plastic doodads that are NLA from Merc, NLA Marine is one of them. There are some sellers with NOS stuff as well.

True, but printed copies of those parts are always brittle and not UV and fuel resistant.  By all means get the OEM part if possible.

[Fish Hound]

I was surprised it was plastic, same for the throttle too. I'll probably go ahead and order a least 2-3. Did find some that said they were OEM. Would be nice to find someone that make a stainless one. I would feel a lot better. I'll surf around and see. Thanks

[fishinwrench]

A metal one is not going to snap over the little ball knuckle gizmo.    You'd have to re-engineer the whole linkage system to make that work.  

Actually if it's all set up and synced properly the little plastic clips are fine.   If it gets tinkered with and things start binding up......then it'll snap a new one just as quickly as it will a 25 year old one.