floppy/loose throttle lever friction

[skdehd]

The port throttle lever of my 1998 speedster will not stay in position and at near idle is downright floppy. any one know how to increase the friction of the port throttle? I have tightened the plastic screw on the outside of the throttle quadrant, but this only seems to effect the starboard throttle. and the screw on the inside only seems to effect the shift lever.

 

[timmyboy76]

its the "chrome" screw in the middle on right hand side of assy.

 

[skdehd]

thanks

the crome screw was tight, but I really cranked it as hard as I possibly could and friction is now adequate.

 

[RFoster130]

Mine is doing the same exact thing. Where is this screw? Under that plate by the throttle levers?

 

[skdehd]

you have to remove the cover plate and four allen screws to lift out the throttle assembly then you will see the chrome screw that is in the center of the assy I thought it was tight but after applying as much pressure as possible withought stripping the screw head it actually solved the problem. try it and let us know if it worked for you

 

[RFoster130]

I will give it a try. THANKS!!

 

[rryanstrickland]

Anybody ever had a 1995 Speedster throttle friction control apart? I can't set the friction on my left engine(sitting in the boat). There is a screw on the right side of the throttle for the right engine and one on the left for the left engine. There is a screw that pushes a spring, that pushes a piece of plastic that puts friction on the lever to hold it at a steady throttle....like cruise control...

But for some reason the left engine throttle friction control doesn't have any affect??? No matter how tight I tighten it?

Any ideas?

 

[rryanstrickland]

Any ideas Timmy Boy?

 

[timmyboy76]

the chrom panhead, located on right side of assy, in middle, controls the "port" lever. Crank on it, seems that its bottomed out, but it'll take the play out of lever...:cheers:

 

[rryanstrickland]

I'll look at it again today...

You da man!!!!!

atriot:

 

[rryanstrickland]

No luck man. This is a 95 speedster, it has 3 plastic "screws" that push a spring that puts pressure/friction on the control levers. One for the right engine, one for the left engine, and one for forward/reverse.....

No chrome screws on this one...

Hmmmm?

 

[timmyboy76]

no worries, stud...what i did on my boat, was, I also found out, for the "starboard" side, that my plastic screw was "wore out" enuf, not to make contact, so...I drilled a hole into it, the nforced/threaded a panhead machine screw into it, but big enuf, so had enuf surface to it, for "putting drag onto lever"...WORKED KILLER.

 

[rryanstrickland]

Cool man!

It looks like the plastic "screw plug" pushes a metal spring that pushes some kind of plastic "pusher" onto the lever internally. Dis what you had been talking 'bout? :ack:

 

[timmyboy76]

Sounds right. I drilled into my plastic "screw" while in the lever, then the drill passed thru it, and hit the rotation device of lever. So I stopped, then found big enuf machine screw to fit inside the screw housing, and long enuf to hit/bottom out against the lever. Worked perfect.

 

[rryanstrickland]

so you took out the "pusher screw"(plastic screw with threads), and then the spring. And drilled out the final plastic thing that pushes on the actual lever? And put a screw in it's place? Am I following you right? Sorry I'm a little slow today! :banghead:

 

[eddie.jesse]

I have the 98 Speedster, and I know this thread is old, but I thought if it could help someone else... I read this which got me close to the solution of the floppy port throttle. Those that have thought they were all the way tightis becasue you have to use a #3 phillips on the pan head screw that in the center of the throttle on the right side. A little test to see which screw to adjust is to move the throttle while looking at the right side and you can see the associated screw turn with the movement. So for the book it is a:
#2 phillips to remove the top plate
#3 Alan Bit to remove the throttle assembly and
#3 Phillips while holding the throttle to adjust the port throttle.

Thanks for the post and hope this clarifies for anyone like me.

 

[LRS]

The port throttle lever of my 1998 speedster will not stay in position and at near idle is downright floppy. any one know how to increase the friction of the port throttle? I have tightened the plastic screw on the outside of the throttle quadrant, but this only seems to effect the starboard throttle. and the screw on the inside only seems to effect the shift lever.

 

[LRS]

I was told that’s actually a safety feature my 1995 does the same thing and from looking at this thread or seems to be a lot of the same reoccurrence on the port side throttle it so if you fall out of the boat the boat does circles ..

 

[rkkoeb]

my 98 speedster was the same way and after adjusting the chrome screw it is much better. Now one thing I notice is my F-N-R lever is acting funny. From N to R very smooth and no issues. Going from N to F much harder to do, why would this be

 

[100dollarbill]

This is the screw for the port side throttle. you need a #3 phillips and really crank on it.