Sticking Neutral Button

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My neutral button has started sticking in so sometimes I cannot get into gear. Waggling the throttle back and forth does not make it release particularly reliably. Anyone else had this on a Volvo Penta D1-30 with sail drive? Before I call out an engineer, is the stickiness likely to be at the control or engine end - and any easy fixes suggested?

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bobgarrett said:
My neutral button has started sticking in so sometimes I cannot get into gear. Waggling the throttle back and forth does not make it release particularly reliably. Anyone else had this on a Volvo Penta D1-30 with sail drive? Before I call out an engineer, is the stickiness likely to be at the control or engine end - and any easy fixes suggested?

Thanks
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It's almost certainly at the control end.

Can you easily get at the mechanism on the inside to give a good squirt of oil and maybe a dash of WD40 (or equivalent) around the button on the outside?
 
Must be the control end - the button just disengages the gear quadrant. Take the whole caboodle off, take it home, dismantle it, find the detent ball and spring that jumped out (that's why you took it home!), free everything off, grease all moving parts - this is a job I do NOT recommend Lithium grease for - and reassemble. Feel smug every time you operate the button!
 
I had this trouble with a Volvo lever. The problem was easily solved in my case. The little centre button has a red plastic sleeve, this tends to get dirty and swell slightly with age and stick in the recess. Use a small screwdriver and gently prise the plastic sleeve out. Then clean it thoroughly and perhaps use fine sandpaper to rub down any roughness. Also clean out the recess it slides into. Before refitting it give a squirt of WD40 or whatever into the works. You should then find it is free moving again.

In my case it continued to work for another 3 years without further bother.
 
Thanks, all I will have a look at the control end. I did try WD40 from the front but it made no difference and I assumed it was sealed to keep water out.
 
It takes a while for WD40 to soak in from the front. Most of us have some variant of the same controls. They were nearly all made by Teleflex Morse, although often badged for such companies as Volvo. Can't make up my mind between "who can't be a****d to design anything" or "who didn't waste time re-inventing the wheel". Either way their mark-up tends to be astronomic, especially as they never have start-up and development costs. So if you need replacement, go straight for the £100 Morse version!

Mine has lost its plastic knob cover, but still sticks!

Rob.
 
rob2 said:
It takes a while for WD40 to soak in from the front. Most of us have some variant of the same controls. They were nearly all made by Teleflex Morse, although often badged for such companies as Volvo. Can't make up my mind between "who can't be a****d to design anything" or "who didn't waste time re-inventing the wheel". Either way their mark-up tends to be astronomic, especially as they never have start-up and development costs. So if you need replacement, go straight for the £100 Morse version!

Mine has lost its plastic knob cover, but still sticks!

Rob.
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I am sure that you can just buy the button for something more reasonable- I did for my VP2003 thru Volspec
 
I recognised mine as being Teleflex Morse and tried to get a manual off their web site to see how it came apart but the site doesn't seem to work properly at present. If anyone has a manual for a CH2850 I'd be grateful.
 
As said previously remove the button with a small flat screwdriver, it just pushes on. I think you will find your problem solved. Much easier than stripping the thing down and finding nothing wrong;-) Been there, done that and once it was in bits the yard engineer told me about the button:-(
 
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