Re: Mercury Mark 5, first run, first problem

[20mercman]

I had one that I worked on last year that I picked up at a swap meet in parts. In the process of building it from a pile of parts, I forgot to put in a thrust washer. 😳 The neutral spring then wound itself up on the drive shaft and it went from no neutral to stuck. I took it apart and the spring was fairly deformed, so I ordered a new one from marineengine.com. I got it all back together with the new spring, then all I had was neutral. 😕 I took it all back apart, and decided that the new spring had too long of a tang that was activating off of the housing instead of the lever. In anger, I decided to repair the original spring, and was able to get it back in proper shape quite easily. Put it all back together again, and it worked perfectly. I was able to return the spring to Marineengine.com. 😀

Steve