270 volvo - neutral safety start switch??

[Boat Doctor1]

Looking into an older 225 HP chev / volvo install- need to locate the neutral start switch?? its not on the throttle/ shift controll. No where !! this is like a factory 1969? model.=single controll with pull out button to select throttle only- with no neutral safety switch on that controll box area. Where can the switch be located at?? Help!!

 

[jeffnick]

Mine is a '72 and it will start in gear. Not sure they had that pull out button system back then?

 

[bruceb58]

It is in the console shifter.

Even in 1972 they had neutral start switches.

 

[Boat Doctor1]

This control is a side Mounted control - it does have a pull out for engaging throttle only=has not a wire or switch on / near it at all. Therefore I cannot find a neutral safety switch. Symptoms are- will crank sometimes -yet not always -just like a bad /intermittent neutral switch!! Yet when using a remote starter switch on starter to battery+ it will crank every time!! I have even replaced the starter!! thinking was a bad solenoid-same as before. I have also replaced the key switch =thinking old boat - bad /intermittent switch-same condition!!all battery conections are good & clean as are grounds to engine.Boat has 2 battery's with a battery switch off-- all-- #1 & #2 positions. Pulling all my hair!!