brettmarl
Regular Contributor
My new port 225 (AK3) has just over 100 hrs and has something slightly funky going on with throttle cable. It responds perfectly adding power in small increments (eg. tweaking up to nearest 100-rpm mark), but when throttling down - especially in the mid-range eg. 4000-ish, it doesn't respond as smoothly, I can adjust down and nothing happen to RPM until I keep going down a bit more then it drops maybe 2-300 RPM in one go and I have to adjust back up a hair to get it to stay.
It used to down-throttle as smoothly as it up-throttled. Everything else seems normal - responds well otherwise and goes WOT no problem etc.
I went through the shop manual adjustment procedure and everything seems within tolerances. I was hoping for some obvious slack/stretch in the cable - but compared to starboard motor (the slack feels about the same).
Any ideas what else I should be looking for given the symptoms?
Throttle controls and cables were replaced with new about a year ago. Haven't looked into the control-side of the equation at all...
It used to down-throttle as smoothly as it up-throttled. Everything else seems normal - responds well otherwise and goes WOT no problem etc.
I went through the shop manual adjustment procedure and everything seems within tolerances. I was hoping for some obvious slack/stretch in the cable - but compared to starboard motor (the slack feels about the same).
Any ideas what else I should be looking for given the symptoms?
Throttle controls and cables were replaced with new about a year ago. Haven't looked into the control-side of the equation at all...