Your Merc cables will not work with the Yamaha control. Must Ski will have a recommendation for good cables and adapters. Get the good ones and they will last. jim
I'll see if we still have the cables. If we do they will be the correct length. I will also try to remember to switch the controls to pull to open the throttle before I send them.
All you guys are way too kind. Thank you for the all the help. Sad day yesterday, and today. I winterized my inboard boat yesterday, and today I pulled another inboard my church owns, from where it is moored, cleaned the bottom, and winterized it.
Two questions about the Yamaha controls. I assume they have a neutral safety switch in them, is it wired the same as Mercury does? Bet you guessed the next question, does the trim on the Yamaha control also work the same as a Mercury control?
Quick update. The Mercury controls have two yellow with a red stripe wires that go to the neutral safety switch. In neutral, there is continuity between the two wires. The trim switched have three wires. Red, purple, and green. The red wire always has power (unless the battery is dead) the up switch connects the red wire to the purple wire, and the down switch connects the red wire to the green wire.
Those are standard industry colors except the up is usually blue. Blue sky up and green grass down. jim
The Yamaha controls have a neutral saftey switch with brown wires coming out of the switch. The Yamaha controls have a separate trim switch for each motor on the body of the control, and one trim switch that operates both of the motors at once on the let handle. You need to install a diode kit before you join the two motors to the one switch for it to work properly and not blow fuses.
Daniel, I hope you're able to get your original Merc controls and cables working the way you want. IMHO, it would be nice to see your Dyne rigged with the controls of it's time. There will always be better and updated hardware,, but nothing will replace the LOOK of those two original Merc controls as they go with those motors and that hull. Call me nostalgic. Cheers, Kevin
Kevin, I can really appreciate your sense of nostalgia, and a desire to want to keep some classic boats, well, Classic. However, this is not that type of boat. This boat has a job, like many twin rigs around the USA. Pull a lot of skiers off a dock, and be able to maintain a precise control of the speed, ideally while using as little gas as is possible. There are some on this board who have done a great job restoring older Hydrodynes, even to the point of using the old carburetter in line six Mercury engines that run pre-mix oil. I applaud them. They have done a great job with their boats. The controls that are currently with the boat are not the old vintage Mercury controls you are probably thinking of. They are a more modern, dual mount control. They are also not the most highly rated twin rig control in the Show ski twin rig world. To me, the true beauty of a Hydrodyne twin rig is to see it pull a Barefoot line, and then within an hour it has pulled huge pyramids, and in the next act, a single star swivel girl. Again, I am not saying you are wrong. I appreciate nostalgia. I would rather have a 1965 Ford Mustang, than a 2009 Ford Mustang.
