Mariner 3.3 gear shift

[snowleopard]

Since it was new the gear shift on my Mariner 3.3 has been very sticky to the extent that I'm afraid of breaking the plastic lever. Yesterday it just refused to go into gear at all and I ended up rowing.

Has anyone had and/or fixed this problem? I'm reluctant to start stripping the leg down without knowing what I'm looking for.

 

[tom52]

Hi

I had the same problem.
Just dismantled the whole thing cleaned of the old grease and salt, re-greased reassembled. Everything ok since.

 

[snowleopard]

I don't have a workshop manual - which bits do I have to dismantle to get at the mechanism?

 

[john_morris_uk]

By co-incidence, our 3.3 gear lever has had the same problem. I took it to bits and found that the plastic lever had swollen and was binding in the hole. Carefully filed some of the plastic off and smoothed it with emery greased it and its working perfectly again. Only did it this week as well...

Basically, you remove a plate with two 10mm bolts which is 'hidden' under the carry handle. There is a screw which you then remove and if it was like mine, you then lever the lever out! Two 'O' rings and its fairly rudimentary in design.

One of my 'O' rings was in bits and I was mildly amused when I found that the dealer wanted £2.41 plus VAT for an 'O' ring about 1cm in diameter!

 

[Talbot]

last time I had a problem getting my tohatsu version of the same engine into gear, was because when engine fell over on its starboard side, the "****" lever just broke off suggest carrying a spare of this.

 

[snowleopard]

Just the job. took out the lever, cleaned and re-greased and now it's working fine. I even caught the detent ball as it bounced across the garage floor /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I thought I'd have to dismantle the whole leg.

Just shows the amount of collective knowledge there is on this forum! Thanks guys.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Whoops - forgot to warn you about the little indent ball!

I put off the job for ages - until I kicked myself from being idle - wasn't so bad in the end.