Hey there,
My brother bought a used bass boat with an old 1988 (I think ...pic below) Evinrude 85 HP outboard motor. It works fine, but the control box doesn't shift into Neutral. It will stay in the forward gear when we press the neutral button. Both forward and reverse gears function properly. It's just when we try to do neutral that it still wants to act as if it's in forward gear.
When we start the motor we have to kick way back from the dock because we will have to hit the "neutral" button, but since it acts as if it's in forward gear, we will propel forward.
Any thoughts or guidance on things to try? I can't imagine that it's good for the motor to constantly be in Forward or Reverse, but then again we are new to this.
Thank you!
My brother bought a used bass boat with an old 1988 (I think ...pic below) Evinrude 85 HP outboard motor. It works fine, but the control box doesn't shift into Neutral. It will stay in the forward gear when we press the neutral button. Both forward and reverse gears function properly. It's just when we try to do neutral that it still wants to act as if it's in forward gear.
When we start the motor we have to kick way back from the dock because we will have to hit the "neutral" button, but since it acts as if it's in forward gear, we will propel forward.
Any thoughts or guidance on things to try? I can't imagine that it's good for the motor to constantly be in Forward or Reverse, but then again we are new to this.
Thank you!