79 nautique rebuild

I'm impressed. Nice work. More like yourself should consider the LVL for stringers. 

Thank you for the kind words. 

Which brings me to the transmission,  the cable stay is on the engine/bell above the trans, every bw ive seen the lever goes forward into forward gear, and back for reverse.

The oiginal throttle is broke at the throttle spring loaded slide, so i ordered a replacement.

The old control pushed to shift and pulled to throttle, i checked it 4 times and noted it in the new controls installation manual, and i had the old control on the bench when i attached the cables to the new part,

so i set the new one up to do the same.

When i see the control push the cable and the location of the cable stay, push would move the lever on the transmission to the rear. 

I know the engine is rh rotation, is the transmission backwards too ?

The steering shaft is a little sloppy, there probably is not a direct replacement is there?

I don't know of a helm control that can't be reversed to ether push or pull so take another look at the instructions that came with yours.

As an example, here's the MV-2 manual out of out reference setion:

NOTE: The neutral safety switch in the helm is not used in our boats. The NSS is on the trans. 

Here are 3 pictures all cleverly rotated 90 degrees from the way they were by the picture gods. It's an MV1 like what you have.

The arrow on the index card is only to point to the front of the boat

It's setup for pull to go forward and pull to open the throttle with both cables going out the front. The shift cable curls up over the front of the engine, past the carburetor to the mount on the bell housing.

The throttle cable goes under the engine, curls up under the transmission and hooks to the throttle cable mount.

That was the typical setup for a mid to late 70's PCM 351

First picture is with the shifter in neutral shifter arm has an S marked on it

Like you already know and mentioned, the controller can be set up a lot of different ways though.

I did notice though in your pictures and video of the old controller, that the throttle lever on the back is on 90 degrees out of position and needs to be unbolted and rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise for the  throttle and shifter to operate correctly together.

Dan,

It's the gear on the distributor shaft that makes it a RH/reverse rotation. So, You can purchase a new distributor and install your old gear on the new.

In theory Pete is correct.  BUT I have installed numerous gears and the cross drilled hole for the pin never seems to be in the correct location.  Plus the diameter of the shaft has to be correct to that gear.  There is a dimension from the mounting face of the dizzy to the bottom of the gear that also has to be correctly located.  Seems as though they just install the gear to proper height and then pin it in a drill press,  never is on center line.  To add to the problem is the fact that some gears are not pre drilled for the pin anyway.  Just my experience.  Good luck,  Duane

I wouldn't be holding your breath waiting for Pertronix to make a version of that with the RR gear on it.

It's been in production a long time and it hasn't happened so they probably have very little reason to do it now.

Maybe Ron at skiboatpartsonline knows something like where to get a .500 inch RR gear for it......or maybe not  

The trailer's looking great. I too have used the ZRC many times and have found it great for rust prevntion.

OK, what's the round plate for? Spare tire mount?