" The controls on my merc 115
" The controls on my merc 115 have been driving me nuts for years now. The first problem I ran into was extra stress in the cables, making it hard to use the throttle. I replaced them & it helped. Due to what I think is partly still stress in the cables, what happens is I cannot adjust the throttle cable correctly. It either will not bottom out to idle as it should, or it won't allow me to open the throttle up all the way.
The second problem is that everything in the control box is worn & sorta bent up. This makes it so the warm up lever never works correctly, giving very little to no throttle adjustment, and in reverse, there's also very little throttle ride. I think it's a combination of cables & box & routing that makes it perform so badly.
I need to replace the cables again, and this time use the correct length of loop at the engine.
The second thing I'm trying to figure out is which controls to go with. I will not pay the $$ for new merc controls - and used might put me back in this situation again.
There's two ways I'll go - either a cheap ($70-100) twin lever single function type box or an aftermarket single lever dual function type ($140)..
The downside with the dual-single is not having my power trim switch & key switch on the handle, but it's guarenteed to solve all mechanical issues. The single lever will be the same as my old merc box, but has the potential to have the same issues again.
Does anyone have any recomendations for controls and/or ideas as to what you have done to fix this type of annoyance etc.. etc..? Thanks for any/all replies,
Jon "
" The controls on my merc 115 have been driving me nuts for years now. The first problem I ran into was extra stress in the cables, making it hard to use the throttle. I replaced them & it helped. Due to what I think is partly still stress in the cables, what happens is I cannot adjust the throttle cable correctly. It either will not bottom out to idle as it should, or it won't allow me to open the throttle up all the way.
The second problem is that everything in the control box is worn & sorta bent up. This makes it so the warm up lever never works correctly, giving very little to no throttle adjustment, and in reverse, there's also very little throttle ride. I think it's a combination of cables & box & routing that makes it perform so badly.
I need to replace the cables again, and this time use the correct length of loop at the engine.
The second thing I'm trying to figure out is which controls to go with. I will not pay the $$ for new merc controls - and used might put me back in this situation again.
There's two ways I'll go - either a cheap ($70-100) twin lever single function type box or an aftermarket single lever dual function type ($140)..
The downside with the dual-single is not having my power trim switch & key switch on the handle, but it's guarenteed to solve all mechanical issues. The single lever will be the same as my old merc box, but has the potential to have the same issues again.
Does anyone have any recomendations for controls and/or ideas as to what you have done to fix this type of annoyance etc.. etc..? Thanks for any/all replies,
Jon "