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Originally Posted by JaayTeee (Post 4842421)

Here’s something easy to try.

remove the bolt out of the lever and the shift cam, you can use that same bolt and thread it into
the shift shaft at the top and pull out the shift shaft and shift fork, put the top cap back on.

You can look over the cam and check it for wear too.

you should be able to see the shift cone groove(where the fork rides) you should be able to pry it
either up down, once you start moving it, the garter springs inside will snap it either up or down.

when it is in the top gear, rotate the propshaft CCW, it should spin, try to rotate it
clockwise, it should lock up with very little amount of rotation and not turn

move the cone to the bottom gear, the propshaft should spin when turning clockwise and lock up
when turning CCW.

If it locks up one way and rotates the opposite way, the clutch is doing
what it’s suppose to do…..it would point back to a cable/ adjustment
or a shift fork issue.

when you put the shift fork back in, the nuts face down.

To get at the cone, you have to
have the drive off, the input shaft/pinion gear out of the case, the shift fork out, then then you can remove the driven gear cluster, after its out,
stand it up on the splined end of the clutch shaft, push down on the top gear hard enough to compress the garter springs, the gear should move down, then you can tap the collar on the clutch shaft down and remove the 2 keepers, then the collar will come off, the upper gear, then the top garter spring and then the shift cone.

Could not see the garter springs, but it did positively go into the upper and lower positions. it spun freely in the opposite direction that it locked in, both positions. It would not "rest" between the 2 positions, unless pryed slightly to the middle(neutral) position. I am guessing that is what the detent in the back cover is for? I replaced the shaft and lined up everything and snugged it all back together. I left the back cover off, I removed the belt and started the engine, shifted into forward, killed the engine and climbed out. it was in forward, spinning freely ccw and locked clockwise. repeated for reverse and it was as it should be. R&R bolts in shaft with red Locktite this time. Reinstalled the back cover, filled with fluid, reinstalled prop, stopped short of reinstalling steering. Closed engine hatch as I now had a prop to watch, started engine shifted into forward, slid down hatch to view the prop NOT spinning, quickly shifted into reverse and again viewed the prop not spinning. shut down engine. Adjusted shift cable to max pull in forward. Forced shifter into forward, as engine had been run enough without water, climbed out and the prop spun ccw and locked cw. I am assuming it will work in forward only for the labor day week end. Cracked open a cold beer and am sitting here thinking about life decisions.