Replacing shift cable on outdrive.

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Hello all, I have a 1984 Sealine 22 with a Volvo Penta 290 outdrive.
I'm replacing the shift cable, I've got it off the control lever in the cockpit, and slid up the plate on the front of the outdrive.

It's stiff as hell. A daft question: Should I be pulling it into the boat, or pulling the length of the cable out through the back of the outdrive?
 
It will be easier to pull it into the boat, but you really need to take the drive off or at least the top section as there is about 6" of solid cable at the end which won't bend and you have to make this go round a 90 degree bend from the front of the drive up into the transom.
 
I'd like to say I'm not stupid enough to do something like that, but that would be lying :)
However, in this case the boat is definitely on hard standing.

On another note, I assume the fitting on the end of the cable that attaches to the outdrive's shifting mechanism screws off somehow.
That's what prompted the question really. It seemed to make more sense pulling less than a foot of cable & sheath through the outdrive into the boat than the other way round, but I couldn't see how the fitting came off (and it obviously won't fit through the little hole that takes it through the outdrive unit to the transom.
 
11mm bolt that anchors the cable to the drive back of bellows, 8mm nut and split pin on shift lever end, unscrew turnbuckle and pull cable through.
 
Thinking about doing this job on mine.
How do you go about getting the right length cable, short of removing the existing one and measuring that.

Is the length critical?
Boat is F'line Targa 31
 
Paul, reading through your last post it looks like I pull the inner cable out first, through the outdrive, then pull the sheath into the body of the boat. Is that right?
I assume installation is the reverse i.e. can't put sheath & cable through together?
 
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