Two of the four stainless screws securing the water pump housing were froze and the screwdriver slots were buggered up. Took the lower unit to a buddy who owns an auto repair shop, he got them out with an impact driver and bit. Screws that had been installed measured 1 1/16 long were a couple...
I have found confusing, and some downright incorrect methods to bench check a rectifier with a digital multimeter on the web. I initialy had checked my rectifier and belived it was bad, before I ordered another I took it to a friend who has profesionaly worked with electronics for close to 40...
Here's some scans (in pdf format) of the installation instructions for a Chrysler 866 control box that were emailed to me by an ebay member, thought I would share them with the forum.
As received they were upside down, don't know how to rotate them.
Smiling Bob
I recently purchased a 77 Chrysler 15 HP electric start outboard that had been converted from tiller to remote. It came with a 2 lever Morse plastic control box. The cables were too short for my boat and the motor end connections had been jury rigged. The throttlle cable had a terminal from an...
I recently purchased a good running 77 (?) Chrysler 15 HP (Model #158HA Serial #1286) electric start short shaft outboard off Craigslist. Choke is manual and there is a engine mounted push button start switch, there is no starter solenoid sos can't run a forward mounted ignition switch. starting...
