1973 Browning Marine
Regular Contributor
I recently bought an allignment tool and alligned my engine and gimbel bearing. Everything has been replaced in the gimbel housing and great care was taken when reassembling. The shift cable had been just replaced when I bought the gimbel housing and is still in great shape. It slides nice in the casing and is the newer looking cable with a teflon like coating on the cable itself. Instead of removing the cable casing and the new shift cable bellows and all that mess wouldn't I be able to just replace the cable itself? Like I said, the cable looks to be in very good condition along with the casing and is hooked up to the linkage on the motor but has not been adjusted yet because I had not yet installed drive due to the allignment issue. Don't alot of the cables fail due to running boat with a bad sterndrive water pump which in turn melts the casing on the shift cable? Also, how often should the cable be replaced? I have read alot of posts about issues with these Alpha One (1) shift cables and know about hard shifting and engine cutting out due to shift cable related issues. I just don't want to put the drive on and have to take it right off again! Is there any way to know if the cable is up to par before putting the drive back on? Thanks, Tom