I recently purchased a boat with what I believe is a 1985 Evinrude 50HP. When I bought it, the boat would would go forward when put the throttle in reverse and vice versa. It could go to full throttle going in "reverse" on the throttle, so it wasn't really an issue. It was just annoying and I planned on fixing it during the winter. The previous owner told me "the cables were reversed" but now having researched this a bit, I know that doesn't make sense.
I saw another post on this board about gear boxes on older evinrudes being the reverse of what they are now as far as the linkage to the lower unit, but that thread was about motors from the late 70s and I haven't been able to find any information on whether or not that applies to models from the 80s. To my knowledge it's the original lower unit however so I'm not sure that would be it.
The other thing that has happened (and I'm not sure what I did because all I've really done was to open the control box and put it back together) is that the throttle no longer opens all the way in reverse. I assume it shouldn't normally but since I still haven't figured out why the directions are reversed, this poses a problem to being able to use the boat at all.
Any help is appreciated, the motor runs absolutely fine otherwise, this is the only problem with it.
I saw another post on this board about gear boxes on older evinrudes being the reverse of what they are now as far as the linkage to the lower unit, but that thread was about motors from the late 70s and I haven't been able to find any information on whether or not that applies to models from the 80s. To my knowledge it's the original lower unit however so I'm not sure that would be it.
The other thing that has happened (and I'm not sure what I did because all I've really done was to open the control box and put it back together) is that the throttle no longer opens all the way in reverse. I assume it shouldn't normally but since I still haven't figured out why the directions are reversed, this poses a problem to being able to use the boat at all.
Any help is appreciated, the motor runs absolutely fine otherwise, this is the only problem with it.