frank2644
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The single lever shift on my Bravo II has always been a little difficult to shift. It's especially annoying when maneuvering in tight spaces because it tends to over shift and apply too much throttle, often requiring a quick reverse shift which also tends to overshoot the throttle. I have done all the usual maintenance activities including lubricating the detent shift ball in the outdrive. At this point I don't think there is anything wrong, it's just that the BII takes a little more force to shift than desirable. And that force necessarily has some overshoot causing more throttle than desired when shifting.
So my proposed solution is to create a slip joint on the throttle cable connection to the carb that would prevent the throttle from opening with small movements of the lever....IOW, create a small dead zone where the cable moves but the slip joint slack prevents the carb butterfly from opening with small movements from idle. That should solve my overshoot issue but, of course, I have to make sure that the carb butterfly still opens fully upon maximum throttle.
My question is, does anybody have any clever ideas on how to modify the shift linkage to create that dead zone. Or is there some other solution to my overshoot problem? Perhaps I could replace the entire shifter mechanism with one that has the proper dead zone. Or maybe convert to a two lever control, one for lever for shifting and a separate lever for throttle. Of course replacing the shifter mechanism is kind of expensive so I'm hoping there is a simple linkage modification to solve my problem
Any comments/thoughts and of course solutions are welcome.
Thanks,
Frank
P.S. The current control is not the original but it is a Quicksilver unit.
So my proposed solution is to create a slip joint on the throttle cable connection to the carb that would prevent the throttle from opening with small movements of the lever....IOW, create a small dead zone where the cable moves but the slip joint slack prevents the carb butterfly from opening with small movements from idle. That should solve my overshoot issue but, of course, I have to make sure that the carb butterfly still opens fully upon maximum throttle.
My question is, does anybody have any clever ideas on how to modify the shift linkage to create that dead zone. Or is there some other solution to my overshoot problem? Perhaps I could replace the entire shifter mechanism with one that has the proper dead zone. Or maybe convert to a two lever control, one for lever for shifting and a separate lever for throttle. Of course replacing the shifter mechanism is kind of expensive so I'm hoping there is a simple linkage modification to solve my problem
Any comments/thoughts and of course solutions are welcome.
Thanks,
Frank
P.S. The current control is not the original but it is a Quicksilver unit.