adjuvantjfoster
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This is newly unboxed 2010 Mercury 4 stroke 6HP long shaft with about 5 minutes of running time in the dealer's tank.
Before I took it to my own boat, I had not noticed that the idle is set so high that shifting into fwd or rev is an "adventure".
What is the strategy, apart from letting the engine warm up at as slow an idle as the twist grip will allow, to slowing down the idle enough to allow shifting at a reasonable RPM?
There is nothing in the little manual that came with the engine about this.
Before I took it to my own boat, I had not noticed that the idle is set so high that shifting into fwd or rev is an "adventure".
What is the strategy, apart from letting the engine warm up at as slow an idle as the twist grip will allow, to slowing down the idle enough to allow shifting at a reasonable RPM?
There is nothing in the little manual that came with the engine about this.