You will want to use the 3300 series cables which everyone sells 11 feet long. Prussian, this is what I did with the first 260 as a dealer. One trick to installing thru the pedestal and down. when you take the cover off on the pedestal, look aft to the port on the base where there is a hole for the cables to run thru which can be difficult to do. A good trick is to remove the nuts and rubber ends on both ends. Then have a small tube or small pipe long enough that goes thru the pedestal so you can feed that cable thru the pedestal thru that hole.
Go thru the back seat locker with a long crowbar and reach back and grab the end of the cable. One word of caution. Do not stick your body thru to the event that you get stuck like I did one Friday evening late which required the Houdini trick of wiggling out eventually on Saturday morning at 2:30 a.m. with bruising all over. The worst part of that is a mad wet hen with a rolling pin upon returning home over that stunt.
Now for the other part of attaching those cables to the pedestal. Have fun! Keep several cotter pins and cannot remember clevis pins but I am sure you will drop one and curse the dickens as it is at the bottom of the pedestal without any way to get it.
You did not tell us your engine was a two stroke or four stroke or year. Anyway, there is a cable kit attachment which you will need to attach your cables with to the engine. Remember your engine is built by Tohatsu which also makes the smaller Mercuries. If there is no Nissan dealer in the area but a Tohatsu, you will be fine. Parts and manuals are identical.
Hope this is helpful sir. By the way, to get stuck like I did take a crazy person to do that and only me with a name of CRAZY Dave can do that like unloading a gun safe from a pick up truck this winter by myself and hitting it against that safe. I have a hard head in many ways and more than nine cat lives.
