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Not torqing the prop will cause that also.

Did you leave the motor in gear when you shut it off? There is a recoil lock on that if you leave the throttle advanced. That motor has the shifter in the tiller handle?

are you sure its the overheat alarm and not the VRO?

You need to do a compression and spark test . If that is good go back to the carbs also verify the oil injection is working

2 strk/4strk , fuel injected/ carb motor?

To far from me I am in WI

Where are you located?

Go on Ebay

If it's a looper motor those screws are around 4-5 turns out from lightly seated.

You need to do compression and spark tests. Look carefully at the old plugs make sure they are not shiny

You can use the 3 or the 6 blade impeller in that motor. Gear pros makes a reasonably priced set of gears for that motor.

How is that the wrong impeller?

Pull the lower unit off and see if it turns then.

With that setup it will happen again. Fix it or not up to you.

I would buy either a marine battery with threaded posts. Or buy the lead clamps that have the threaded posts and use those. How do you have those other cables terminated?

What do the other set of large cables go to. You can't put a ring terminal on the clamp bolt like that. Since they don't sit flat you get a bad connection.

That is a bad set up. How many motors do you have on this boat?

Loose connections. Especially if you have wing nuts on the battery.

The early 4 strk carbed motors were notorious for carb problems. Most of it was because they were so lean at an idle.

You need to be looking at those carbs. Get a factory. manual