Rigging a pontoon

[Shenryku]

Good Morning. I had a few questions and was hoping to get some advice as to what direction I should focus.

I bought a 2009 Sun Tracker Party Barge 21. It did not come out an outboard but was pre-rigged with quicksilver controls. I live on a small lake and we are HP restricted to 9.9 hp outboards.

I bought a 2005 Mercury 4 stroke 9.9 ELB (serial 0R064498). I went to install it and realized I was missing the steering linkage kit which i will have to order.

When I was trying to hook up the throttle and shift cables, The connections on the outboard do not match up with my quicksilver connection ends. The quicksilver cable ends have a black plastic end measure 3-4 inches in lenght. The outboard I bought came with throttle/shift cables and the throttle box and the ends on those cable are a light gray larger diameter circle connection that fit onto my outboard and then are cotter pinned in.

My question is, do i need to re-rigg with new throttle cables or is there an adpater piece to connect my outboard to the pre-existing quicksilver throttle cables on my sun tracker.

Thank you in advance
Shaun

[Shenryku]

Anyone have experience with a situation similar to this?

Thanks

[boatmangc]

Sounds like you need cables.
You need to be sure and pull the cables out on the box you are going to use. You could have either Gen 1 or Gen 2, not interchangeable on the box end,

[Shenryku]

From what I can tell. The boat had gen I cables and my outboard came with gen II.

I'm going to call a local marine before I do anything though. Probably spring for new cables all together anyway.

Thank you for your advice.

[boatmangc]

Gen 1 or Gen 2 refers to the box end of the cables.