Matt -

My throttles used to hit on my Cafe too! I started a thread at the time:

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/c...e-hitting.html

Mine had a thicker spacer/plate for the drive trim/tabs making mine worse. I never swapped the direction of the sticks as it looked like it would be really odd at low RPM.

OMG!!! Now you've lost build history for the boat????? I think this proves that its YOU and not the boat that has bad luck! LOL !!!!!

Im still trying to figure out what has taken 5 years? I am paint/interior away from doing the same thing except have boated the whole time.

Hopefully this is your year Frick!! Prayers sent your way brother!!

Well, it did sit for one year while business sucked. And I always had another boat so I took my time and paid cash for everything, I ended up spending a lot of money! Yes, the bad luck continues, but I'm still smiling because if that's the worst thing that happens, I'm really fortunate and consider myself lucky and am thankful for what I have. Hope to join you all out on the water someday, I think she's finally ready.

Oh yeah, and I'll be boating and sport fishing down in Miami starting tomorrow, so at least I get SOME water time in!!!

Happy Spring!

Getting through my various boat projects this week and the project for today was to get my new Marine Machine controls installed. Here is how they came out:

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The throttles don't hit the tab buttons, in fact the positioning is perfect now. I had a worry that the shifters would interfere with the port side Cigarette key, but it just clears by a whisker. The shifters however do just touch the start toggles. It isn't a big deal, but I am sure it will annoy me. I think if I replace those two toggles with some nice flush mount starter buttons they will look perfect. Does anybody have some links for quality marine grade buttons that look nice? I think Cigarette may be using something like this now in the newer dashes. I don't want to buy the cheap ebay chit because I know it will crap out on me at the worst possible time.

Will these #8200's work ?
http://catalog.bluesea.com/#80/z

It might, but not exactly the look I am after.

I ordered a couple of these, if they look decent I will run them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SKI-CENTURIO...-/191045019995

No ebay huh ? LOL.

No chinese generic ebay I should have said. This is at least an OE switch.

Just bustin nutz

I found it. Part # should start with P5, not P8 like on the tag.Whuchever is right, who knows, but

click here: http://www.ottoexcellence.com/produc...ernate-action/