Mercury Outboard Question

[moguls2go]

Hi Everyone,

I have a non-31 Bertram question... I'm a Whaler owner (hopefully a B31 owner one day, but gotta start somewhere) and I'm having problems with a new throttle cable. I've asked over at Whaler Central and I'm not getting anywhere, so I thought I'd try here. I snapped a (20 year old) Morse throttle cable and replaced it with the Teleflex equivalent. I'm finding that, when I make adjustments on the motor (a '91 Merc 115), I can achieve one of two things: good idle speed, but not enough rpm at WOT or too high an idle in exchange for proper WOT rpm.

My question is this: is anyone aware of an adjustment that can be made at the control (Quicksilver top mount single control w/ tilt) to compensate for such a problem?

I read posts here almost daily and have seen some Whaler questions... hopefully I'm not committing bulletin board taboo :-)

Thanks!

Max
Chicago, IL

[Harry Babb]

Sounds like the basic problem is, not enough stroke or cable travel. That don't have anything to do with the cable itself.

I am not familiar with the control that you have but......if the arm (in the control) to which you connect the cable has more than one hole, you should move the cable connection further away from the pivot point....thereby making the cable have a longer stroke

If the arm (on the motor) to which you connect the cable has more than one hole you sould move the connection closer to the pivot point.....thereby requiring less stroke

Hope this helps

H

[moguls2go]

Thanks Harry, I'll take a look at the control tomorrow.