Re: Johnson 25 jumps out of gear

[Casey Lynn]

quote Richard A. White:

The adjuster needs adjusting….it is the knurled wheel near the connector on the motor…. Basically the shift lever is not engaging enough/ not being pulled far enough forward…. rotate the wheel counter-clockwise looking at the front of the motor.. Does that make sense??? If the dog is good, then it probably is the adjustment..

This is a secondary adjustment. Only needed when a shift cable/control box is attached and not on a tiller only engine.

There is a primary adjustment at the shift lever on the engine. This should be accomplished regardless of tiller only or control box operated.
Behind the shift lever there is a screw and jam nut that attaches the actual horizontal shift shaft to the shift lever.
When adjusted properly and shifted into the detent you should feel an increase in drag on the prop when the prop is rotated back and forth.
Get a feel for what I am talking about with the gearcase in neutral then shift it into forward and pull the shift lever as far forward as you can. You should feel an increase.That increase is where the clutch dog is bottoming out against the forward gear dog and maximizing the adjustment.
To make your adjustment where you can feel this, the shift shaft, once loosened, needs to be rotated slightly rearward and snugged back up. Small increments at a time until the point that the extra drag is felt when the shift handle shifts into the normal spring loaded detent.