Reply To: 1980 ish Mercury 7.5 hp Tell-Tale?

[billw]

I install them in forward, too. If I remember right, those splines are cut in such a way that they will only engage in one way. Sometimes that doesn’t make it any easier. Sometimes the splines will actually align better in neutral; but the deal there is not to let the case slip into forward by accident, while you’re jockeying it around.

Long live American manufacturing!