throttle lever force

[Greg Ketley]

When changing my throttle cable I noticed what appears to be a lot of resistance in the lever on the engine itself.(1983 3GMF). Any thoughts on what the "norm" is?GregS/V Seabew

 

[Paul Akers]

Found the same

Greg, I found the same thing. What happened in my case was that the raw water hose to the heat exchanger was beginning to drip at the exchanger connection. It dripped directly on the throttle lever on the engine. Subsequently it was beginning to corrode andnearly froze. I disconnected the throttle cable and worked the lever back and forth along with liberally spraying WD-40 on the lever. It is now free and makes quite a difference. Do what I did to get the necessary feel of the lever. I would be sure to disconnect the cable for the procedure to avoid undue pressure on the cable/throttle mechanism on the pedestal.

 

[Mickey Goodman]

Throttle Lever Sticking

Greg, like Paul, I had the same problem. Last weekend I spend about 1/2 hour "working" the throttle lever on the engine with great results. This weekend I was able to take the boat out to see who it would react. Prior to fixing the problem I couldn't get the engine RPM's lower than 1,200. It was real interesting trying to get into the slip without crashing at that level. Today I was able to creep in at 500 RPM's. What a breeze (in more ways than one) sailing today was between 15 to 22 knots.I did also have a problem before with the lever creeping down from 3,000 RPM's. Today was such a good sailing day that there was no need to motor other than getting in and out of the slip. So I don't know if that problem was fixed.