04 175 HPDI Question??

[mpb185vs]

Ok here is the scenario, I am running down the lake and everything is normal, speed, RPMs, ect. I get to my next spot and throttle down and idle into where I am going to fish. When I go to put the throttle in nuetral I seems to be stuck. I finally got it into nuetral with quite a bit of force. For the rest of the day every time I put it into gear it was very hard to get it into gear and back into nuetral. Also it seemed like every time I ran to another spot I lost more and more RPM's. By the end of the day I could barely get on plane.

I never heard any strange noises or anything like that. My first thought was a cable problem not allowing the throttle to open up fully. After talking with a few people some seem to think it might be a lower unit problem. Any ideas or suggestions to diagnose???

[BuzzB8]

Check the cable under the cowling. Look where the cable is held down by a clip or bar, I bet that's your problem.

[mpb185vs]

Actually we did check under the cowl and 1 of the cables had jumped out of its slot and the plastic holder clip was undone. I just havent had a chance to run it again to see if that was the issue.

[skeeter333]

Have you checked your fluids in your lower unit?

[BuzzB8]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by mpb185vs &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Actually we did check under the cowl and 1 of the cables had jumped out of its slot and the plastic holder clip was undone. I just havent had a chance to run it again to see if that was the issue.</td></tr></table>

Well, have you tried it yet?