2001 8hp Yamaha wiring

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utfyrfytr

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I recently bought a 2001 8hp Yamaha kicker motor to put on my fishing boat. The kicker is already installed on another boat. I started to remove the Yamaha and when I began to remove the wiring from the motor it seems that the wiring harness at the motor has like a connection block where all of the wires from the control box connect. My question is, is that the correct way to disconnect the harness coming from the boat? I kind of assumed that it would have some kind of plug that I could just unplug from and then plug it back into after the swap. I am obviously new to the Yamaha motors so I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants here. Thanks for any help or advise. I am also having trouble finding service or repair manuals for this engine. Thanks again.
 
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utfyrfytr said:
I recently bought a 2001 8hp Yamaha kicker motor to put on my fishing boat. The kicker is already installed on another boat. I started to remove the Yamaha and when I began to remove the wiring from the motor it seems that the wiring harness at the motor has like a connection block where all of the wires from the control box connect. My question is, is that the correct way to disconnect the harness coming from the boat? I kind of assumed that it would have some kind of plug that I could just unplug from and then plug it back into after the swap. I am obviously new to the Yamaha motors so I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants here. Thanks for any help or advise. I am also having trouble finding service or repair manuals for this engine. Thanks again.
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all I have seen are plug in connectors
 
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The motor has been modified. It would have come from Yamaha with a ten pin connector on the main engine harness. That connector would have connected with a corresponding 10 pin connector in the ten pin wire harness.

 
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Thanks for the information. I was hoping that there was going to be an easier way to unplug it. What do you think about rather than trying to keep all of those different colors straight because they don't always connect to the same color wire, if I cut the main cable and after swapping the motor then I could splice color to color. I know that probably isn't the best but it would keep me from getting wires crossed and if I used heat shrink it should work, just wouldn't look the best. I could hide it up inside the storage compartment.
 
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If the motor has a ten pin harness connected to it, and a control box/key switch connected to the end of that harness, and it all works well, why not move everything over from one boat to the other?
 
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I can't because the harness passes through a hole in the splash well. I can't get the control box through the hole on one end and the motor won't fit through the hole on the other end. The boat is an old aluminum StarCraft I guess I could cut a larger hole and then sell the boat for scrap aluminum. It isn't worth much anyway.
 
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What type of control box? 703 side mount or 704 to mount?

Former has wire oncolour coded bullet connectors which can be undone. Latter has two round twist lock connectors. Undo those and remove the ten pin harness that way.
 
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I have the 703. I pulled the back cover off and decided I didn't want to tackle that mess of wires either. I have about decided to just cut out a piece big enough to get the control box through and scrap the boat.
 
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