Nolle

Hello again, another small repair fix from my side: Problem: Morse throttle panel/lever feels loose Steps: disassembling Morse unit, take off the cables and the little messing pins Findings: In the picture you can hardly see that the leaf spring is broken, the leaf spring is pushing a little drum into unit for neutral, gear in forward and gear in back. If the spring is broken, the feel tension in the lever is coming loose.-( The second picture shows you the pin off the wear after 800h. Especially the gas pin wears out much more than the gear/clutch pin. If the pin is breaking with full throttle you can come into troubles:-) Solution: 0. Check throttle cable that the cable is moving back by itself, if you pulling on it. If not you have to replace the throttle bowden because you have to muss friction inside the cable. 1. Get a new leaf spring or copy the old one. it is easy. 2. get new messing pins and put it together with grease. 3. clean the unit from the old grease and wear, and put new grease on it Voila the morse unit feels like brand new:-) Cheers Nolle

Hi all, at the moment I am starting a lot of small projects on my boat. I am Daniel From Germany (sorry for my english :-))and I bought last year my first Malibu Sunsetter. Now I am adding some additional things to get a wakesetter set up. Now I like to share my first little project or change on the boat. Malibu Sunsetter LXI with an Mercruiser MPI MAG 350 Engine, Velvet 1:1 Drive. 1. Check the room between elbow exhaust and engine block or gearbox 2. Check exhaust hose at the transom If this is like my than the exhaust is vibrating on the engine. Bad if is wearing off the exhaust fiberglass elbow:-( So the idea is to move the exhaust hose a little towards the transom. The overlapping between exhaust hose and transom outlet is more than 10cm. So there should be no problem if you shorten the hose 2cm (1") at the transom side and the overlapping is still 8cm. Next step was to shorten 1-2cm (1") the exhaust hose and move the hole unit for 1cm towards the transom. Voila, room between engine and exhaust elbow. 9cm overlapping transom outlet and still 1 cm free for thermal extensions:-) Cheers Daniel