MV-1: Step-by-step teardown, clean and assemble.

Looks awesome

There used to be a guy on here that makes really nice ones. Way better than what you'd buy from any of the dealers. He might still post in one of the for sake areas.

While we're not professionals when it comes to these I think it's safe to say we can help you smooth everything out.

I still battled some minor adjustments on mine after cleaning but with the help of Zach and Joe we caught the problem after pulling it off and taking a look at the back. One of the smoothest boats I own now.

Upload some pics and we'll do our best to get you skiing tonight.

Todd, it should just be set in and stays in place with some grease. It doesn't take much.

If you have everything apart then give it all a good clean, grease it up and put it all back.

My guess is you're having trouble with the plates on the backside where the throttleand trans cables attach. That's where I went wrong. There is a spring that is supposed to assist the cables and I had it backwards. It seemed logical the way I put it together but it took Zach and I looking at another boat to figure it out.

Sorry, I don't have pics of this since we were working in the campground on Green Lake!

Ok, I made a super cool illustration in the photo below ha.

The Yellow lines signify the throttle cable.
The Green line is the gear cable.
The red arrows show the movement as the throttle returns to neutral.

The spring in the throttle cable track mechanism sits in front of that piece and pushes rearward on it. The reason it does this is because as you move the control forward or rearward towards the gear slots the throttle cable arm has to move also. The reason the mount has a spring and moves along in the track is so that it can compensate for the movement of the throttle are between neutral and in gear so that the throttle cable stays in the "idle" position and doesn't bring the throttle into motion until the boat is already in gear.

So if you reverse the direction of the red arrows that would show you the movement into the forward gear position.

That picture isn't the best but it shows the MV3 control in the neutral position.

Gotcha, just post the pics up and we can get a better idea of what we need to do. I just use the photo editor on my pc to resize. Also if you have an I phone and you select the medium file size when emailing pictures that file size works for CCF.com

Spent a few hours on it yesterday. Controller feels like butter. Finally got the throttle lever to lay horizontal facing aft. Problem I was having is when 2 PO's ago had Mickey Mouse reinstall the engine after a rebuild, he must've put the "fork" that holds the throttle cable at carb, backwards and on the wrong bolt on intake, preventing WOT. I flipped it around, moved it forward and I now know why my boat didn't have much top end. Wow, the carb really opens up now and I gained some speed and rpms! Thanks for the help.