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I have a what I assume is 80s mercury force 15hp motor. I am trying to get into the grip of the tiller to replace throttle cable. Are there any tricks to getting these off? I don’t have a model/serial number on this motor so I’m not sure of the year. And I don’t understand the whole mercury...
Does anyone know if there’s an option to rig something together in place of oem choke? Mine burnt up. The motor still works just takes longer to crank. I don’t want to spend $185 for something that seems so simple to rig something else to the switch to move slightly up and down.
Yea it wound up that the mechanical plunger broke off flush with the switch body so it didnt look like anything was wrong at first glance. Got it fixed. Thanks guys
long walk for a short drink. The problem was the plunger broke off of that switch and I need to get a new ignition switch and key as well. I temporarily put a “new” plunger in that switch and then bridged battery positive to s on ignition and she fired right up. Thanks everyone!
Oh I believe you know what you’re talking about. But like I previously said, I’m 3/4 idiot. I’ve re read 3 times slowly word for word everything you have written on this thread and I’m grabbing that there is a switch that likely has contact issues and that most people just replace them but...
No worries. I’m at least 3/4 idiot so I need blunt. When you say switch do you mean the black thing with the two tabs that the start arrow is pointing at?
I’m sorry. I forgot to list. 1970 115 hp cowl says fastwin but when I put serial number into google it comes up starflite. Push button electric shift.
When you say internal contacts, what do you mean? Internal of what? Like the whole motor? What should be taken apart and what should be...
