Transmission backwards
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Printed Date: April-04-2025 at 6:28am
Topic: Transmission backwards
Posted By: Tylerdfaulk
Subject: Transmission backwards
Date Posted: April-02-2025 at 4:10pm
| new to me 1986 SN 2001, when you put the throttle in forward the boat goes in reverse./ and when in reverse goes foward. is there something i can flip in the transmmission to fix this. Thanks |
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Posted By: KENO
Date Posted: April-02-2025 at 7:07pm
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Her are some questions for ya' 1) If you're looking at the engine from in front of it, do the pulleys rotate clockwise toward the passenger side of the boat or counterclockwise toward the drivers side. 2) If you have the transmission in neutral and you shift the throttle to Forward does the lever(with the yellow arrow pointing at it) on the transmission move toward the front of the boat or toward the back of the boat https://imgbb.com/" rel="nofollow">  3) Looking at the picture below, do you have a RH rotation prop or a LH rotation prop https://ibb.co/tTSQhXBv" rel="nofollow">  You have to answer all 3 questions, no fair answering only 1 or 2
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Posted By: Tylerdfaulk
Date Posted: April-02-2025 at 8:28pm
| Looking from the front the engine goes clockwise, when you push throttle forward lever on transmission moves forward and trying to load picture of prop |
Posted By: Tylerdfaulk
Date Posted: April-02-2025 at 8:31pm
| Prop appears to be right hand 4 blade |
Posted By: KENO
Date Posted: April-03-2025 at 7:55am
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Based on your answers, you have an engine with normal automotive rotation in the boat. Being an 86. it would have originally had a backwards rotating engine that would make your boat go forward when it was shifted to forward. with the prop you have now. Your engine and transmission in the boat now are normal rotation and you need a LH prop instead of the RH prop that's on the boat. With the LH prop, the boat will go forward when you shift it into forward. There are other more difficult solutions like rebuilding the engine to be reverse rotation or replacing the engine with a reverse rotation engine but they get kinda pricey. There's nothing you can do to your transmission to make it reverse the direction of engine rotation when it's in Forward and have the transmission last. So the easiest solution is putting a LH rotating prop on the boat and seeing how it runs.  It sounds like you bought somebody's "not quite finished" project boat. Some people will say that you need a reverse rotation engine or the boat will lean too much to the driver's side if you're alone with no passenger(s) |
Posted By: Tylerdfaulk
Date Posted: April-03-2025 at 12:21pm
| Thank you for all the help, is there a prop that you would recommend, best bang for you buck, we do more plessure riding and tubing and my 11 yr old wants to start boarding some. also i need to do some testing with boat in water would it destroy the transmission if i tried to operate it some how it is? |
Posted By: Tylerdfaulk
Date Posted: April-03-2025 at 12:23pm
| and that's exactly what it is got boat on a trade and finding little stuff like this left and right, next to tackle is the throttle, it seems to all be hooked up but no increase in rpms unless i do it manually on carb |
Posted By: TRBenj
Date Posted: April-03-2025 at 1:14pm
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Acme 541. Is your neutral pin pulled? |
Posted By: Tylerdfaulk
Date Posted: April-03-2025 at 1:29pm
| ive done it with it pulled and pushed in, i havnt had to much time messing with it |
Posted By: KENO
Date Posted: April-03-2025 at 4:21pm
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Sounds to me like your throttle cable is broken or the brass connector that hooks the cable to the throttle lever is broken or fell off the back of the throttle assembly. With it disconnected from the carburetor, if you move the throttle you should see the end move and when you pull the throttle back, the end should move back again. I don't think anybody will tell you it's a good idea to run it forward on the reverse clutches Kinda unpredictable how long things would last. Got anybody you can borrow a LH prop from to see how it runs before forking over the bucks for a new one?
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