Clicking into gear
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Printed Date: October-18-2024 at 6:23am
Topic: Clicking into gear
Posted By: marshef5893
Subject: Clicking into gear
Date Posted: May-28-2024 at 11:33am
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Let me start by saying I haven't owned a Ski Nautique in over 25 years. I have a question about what I remember from my 86 model. When I put it in gear, I remember a very distinct click and at that point a slow engagement of the transmission. I have purchased a 93 model and it doesn't seem to have that click point. You move the shift lever and it just engages at some point but you really don't know where that is. Is this an issue with the shift lever? or would it be the transmission linkage. Seems to do it in both forward and reverse so it makes me think it's in the shift lever. Thanks in advance. Mark
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Posted By: TRBenj
Date Posted: May-28-2024 at 2:12pm
| Could be the control, the cable or the trans shift mechanism. Time to disconnect some stuff and see where the problem truly lies. |
Posted By: KENO
Date Posted: May-28-2024 at 6:36pm
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So you're missing the click......here's a picture of the inside of a Morse throttle control like yours You see 3 yellow lines pointing at 3 detents in the mechanism and you see a spring and ball. One detent for neutral one for forward and one for reverse. Shift to forward and you get the click when the ball is in the forward detent, same for shifting back to neutral or shifting to reverse Right now the shifter is in neutral You'll have to remove the control and take it apart to see what the problem is. Maybe a broken spring, dried up grease or a missing ball and/or spring if it's been apart before Maybe shallow detents It's only scary the first time you take one apart  Maybe somebody with a 93 (samudj01 comes to mind) can tell you how pronounced his click is......or isn't as compared to one of his earlier boats like the 78 Tique. I think he'll be around to give some input https://ibb.co/GdzGRNW" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: samudj01
Date Posted: May-28-2024 at 7:10pm
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I have good clicks on both the 93 and 78 Morse throttles. Our older 72 does not. Now I want to take the 72 apart. I would start with disconnecting the cables and reattaching them with the procedure in the faq. That has solved issues for us in the past when getting the 78 control working right. ------------- 78 Ski Tique, 72 Skier w/302's, 93 SN w/351 & 17 GS22 w/zr409 Previous - 99 Sport Nautique w/GT40 and 87 Martinique w/351 |
Posted By: Morfoot
Date Posted: May-29-2024 at 6:01am
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storm34 did a morse control rebuild thread a few years ago. Check it out. https://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24751&title=mv1-stepbystep-teardown-clean-and-assemble" rel="nofollow - MV-1: Step-by-step teardown, clean and assemble. - CorrectCraftFan.com Forums - Page 1 ------------- "Morfoot; He can ski. He can wakeboard.He can cook chicken.He can create his own self-named beverage, & can also apparently fly. A man of many talents."72 Mustang "Kermit",88 SN Miss Scarlett, 99 SN "Sherman" |
Posted By: marshef5893
Date Posted: June-03-2024 at 2:26pm
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Thank you very much. I will attempt to tear apart the controls. I felt like there should be clicks into and out of gear. The picture with the 3 lines make it pretty clear. Thanks again, Mark |
Posted By: KENO
Date Posted: June-03-2024 at 6:04pm
| This would be a good time to check/replace if necessary the brass cable ends where they attach to the arms on the back of the throttle control and also make sure the cables move freely while everything is disassembled |