2004 Mercury 60hp high idle button stuck

[hwilliams1105]

         
                      Morning, 
            I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to free the free accelerator button on my 2004 Mercury 60hp 2 stroke bigfoot. I pushed the button in and started the engine to warm up. After the engine warmed up, I placed the controls back in neutral and it wont come back out. Which also prevents me from shifting to forward and reverse. I checked at the engine and the throttle moves but not the transmission. So I am certain it has to do with that button. I took the shifter arm off and tried to pull the plastic piece out but it wont move. Any help would be much appreciated.   Thanks and take care.  

[gnrphil]

You might need to remove the shifter and take the back plate off where the control cables go in and try to free it off from there.

[yankee]

Please keep us updated as my button has been sticking, but has always released. You may be able to educate one of us???

[hwilliams1105]

  I have not tried that yet. I will try it this weekend and see if I can get it free. I will also update this post as soon as I can fix it.