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1984-1985 mercury 30hp outboard 2 questions ones throttle other trim and tilt related

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BLUGOO

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I have a either 1984 (pretty sure it is), or 85 30hp mercury outboard. Love the motor been really good to me, but the first thing. The actual throttle control will let you push it easily to lets say lowish speeds, but when you want to get out and crank on it, it feels like it catches, but then if you keep adding pressure, it will let go into the higher speeds. Normally kinda knocking you back from acceleration. So like I said its fine to a point, hangs up and then finally the more pressure you put on it gets past its hangup and its easily moved to full throttle, back to that spot where it hangs up about mid throttle.

Second. I got a bad back, so lifting it back out of the water can be a little rough on me. Is there any "cheap" way to add atleast power tilt/trim? Ive seen the units for like 600 bucks (the gmc or cmc or whatever), but was hoping there was a less expensive way.

Thanks for your help.

Aaron
 
Aaron,
Can't help you with the first part of your thread ---- but ---- a friend of mine has been using this to tilt his engine and it's been saving his back. Here is the link http://www.amazon.com/Dotline-Motor-Tilter/dp/B0000AZ878 . It doesn't ' trim ' but it certainly helps you tilt the engine up and it's inexpensive compared to a power system.

Dot Line Motor Tilter.jpg

Floyd
 
Are outboards designed to be lifted like that? I can see smaller engines, up to about 30 hp maybe, being easy enough to lift like that.
 
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