I bought a 2520 this past winter that was in need of some repairs and modifications to bring here back up to snuff, my mechanic has gotten most of the little issues taken care of, but we are still working on one issue with the controls. The boat has a second station on the roof of the pilot house. The previous owner had the boat set up with two sets of morse controls at each helm(boat has dual yami 150s). They were the controls with two levers, one red and one black throttle and gear. The set up was very very stiff and very awkward with the two separate sets of controls, made it difficult to drive. My mechanic wanted to switch to the yamaha binnacle style controls to get the nice controls and the start in gear protection. He mounted one set of yamaha stock controls on each station then ran a set of control cables from each station down into a “junction box” in the pilot house which joined the two controls and sent one set of cables back to the outboards. In theory it should work out, but the set up came out very stiff, making it very hard to throttle up or down easily. I am looking for some suggestions for this set up to make it work out. He worked on adjusting the cables and cant get it any better. I have seen a couple diagrams on other posts showing people using the morse controls and running the cables from two stations back to the outboard with them both tying into the control lever. I mentioned this to the mechanic but he doesn’t think the yamaha controls are intended to work like this? I would like to go with the yamaha controls because we spent about 500 bucks each on the two dual engine binicle controls and I like the factory look and the ease of just using one lever per engine instead of the dual stick morse controls. Please help fishing season is here.
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