"What a surprise! For Mother&
"What a surprise! For Mother's Day my husband bought us a brand new Tohatsu 9.8 motor for our sailboat. He bought it online and we set it up last night on a sawhorse to check it out. While shifting through the forward-neutral-reverse gears, I noticed that there is definite click with over an inch of movement between forward and neutral settings, but only about a quarter inch of momentum between neutral and reverse. Is this normal? It seems to me there should be the same amount of distance between neutral and reverse as there is between neutral and forward. Is there something I'm missing? We've read the owner's manual twice, but I can't find anything about this. I would think it might be hard to distinquish between neutral and reverse with so little play. My husband wants to get the motor on the boat and in the water before trying it out, but I prefer to get these nagging questions answered BEFORE we do that."
"What a surprise! For Mother's Day my husband bought us a brand new Tohatsu 9.8 motor for our sailboat. He bought it online and we set it up last night on a sawhorse to check it out. While shifting through the forward-neutral-reverse gears, I noticed that there is definite click with over an inch of movement between forward and neutral settings, but only about a quarter inch of momentum between neutral and reverse. Is this normal? It seems to me there should be the same amount of distance between neutral and reverse as there is between neutral and forward. Is there something I'm missing? We've read the owner's manual twice, but I can't find anything about this. I would think it might be hard to distinquish between neutral and reverse with so little play. My husband wants to get the motor on the boat and in the water before trying it out, but I prefer to get these nagging questions answered BEFORE we do that."