My shift lever was very stiff and did not always go in FWD. I removed the compass from the binnacle and put a drop of BREAK FREE on the cable. Over two days, I did this several times. Problem solved. If you are not familiar with BREAK FREE, it is a general purpose lubricant that has tiny teflon particles. It comes is a black plastic bottle with a little red tube. It is widely used as a gun lube and I have seen it a BassPro Shop in the gun section. About $8. A little goes a long way and a bottle will last for years. Also works great on the engine shutoff cable. Shake bottle before using. Don, #6293, Niceville, FL
--- On Wed, 6/2/10, joel5876 <[email protected]> wrote: From: joel5876 <[email protected]> Subject: [IC27A] Re: Universal 18 shift lever To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 10:37 PM Not to steal this line, but as long as we are on shifting, when I shift into forward, my transmission does not always engage immediately. I need to throttle up a bit then back off for it to engage. My shift lever does meet the column brace. Is there an easy way to adjust the transmission? --- In [email protected], Sonshingle <sonshin...@...> wrote: > > I broke one of those plastic shift levers and they replaced them with metal > ones which they should have been originally. Seems like they are $49.00 ea so > if you replace 1 you probably want to replace the other at the same time. > Â > Dick Schmidt > Greenville, NC > Rush No More > > --- On Tue, 6/1/10, Jeff <jeff.she...@...> wrote: > > > From: Jeff <jeff.she...@...> > Subject: [IC27A] Universal 18 shift lever > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 9:02 AM > > > Â > > > > Finally, I got my boat (1989 C27 TR with Universal 18) out of the slip for > the first outing of the season and all went well, except for one minor(?) > concern. The shift lever, mounted on my steering pedastal, was extremely > difficult to move. It took so much force to shift between > forward-neutral-reverse that I was afraid the plastic handle would snap off. > The transmission itself seemed perfectly fine, and once I was able to move > the lever, the gears engaged properly. I went below and sprayed the linkage > with a liberal dose of WD-40, and that seemed to loosen things up noticably, > but not yet back to normal. > > While down there, I noticed a small plastic cap near where the linkage > attaches to the transmission that looked like it might be a cover for a > grease fitting. Is that what it is? Is there a more conventional way to keep > the lever properly lubricated other than slathering it with WD-40? > > Thanks for any advice. > > Jeff Sheler > s/v Windsome > 1989 C27 TR > Portsmouth, VA >
