NickDeer
Senior Member
I got a 2004 Yamaha 9.9 4 stroke Outboard for free. Got it running and all. It needed was a water pump though. I took off the lower unit, replaced the water pump, and go to put the lower unit back in, and it wont go right. If i have the outboard in forward (shift linkage all the way up) itll seat in its spot but I cant shift down to neutral or reverse. If I try to put the lower unit back in with the motor in reverse or neutral it wont go all the way. I'm not sure what to do. On this particular motor, the whole lower unit comes out, and a long shift linkage about a foot long stays in the motor and goes up and down depending what your gear your in. Every video I've watched it doesn't have this mechanism so I'm lost on what to do to properly sit this lower unit back in right where I can shift.