Reply To: Johnson &Evinrude jumping out of gear 51/2 to 40 hp older motors

[sydinnj]

With remote control, make sure the cables are adjusted properly and in good shape. Had a problem on my daughters boat that had several of us scratching our heads. We could not get it to shift into both gears properly, could adjust to get neutral and one direction or the other but not both. We are also looking at this problem with the knowledge that the previous owner had a fat four on it that was made up from several motors. He said that it worked fine with these cables. After a bunch of time, I discovered that at some point someone cut off a bit of the inner shift cable, most likely to get rid of an early pinch kink where the end gets fastened on. They also cut off a piece of the end of the outer casing to compensate for the shorting of the inner wire. A new cable solved the problem.