I posted a message the other day re. a Force 35 with low compression in the lower cylinder. Bought it used, have never run it, and am trying to figure out if I need to rebuild it. Several respondents suggested I do a decarb job, which necessitates running it for awhile. It came without a wiring harness, so, with the help of the wiring diagrams from both the service manual and the ignition swith I bought, I jury rigged the wiring, just so I could get it running. Tonight I fired it up and it ran. And ran. And ran. I could not shut it down. Turned off the ignition, pulled out the lanyard from the emergency shut off switch, and it just kept on going. Finally disconnected the battery and that did it. So, two questions. (1) Any idea how to fix this?, and (2) is this dangerous? All I really want to do at this point is run the thing long enough to decarb it, to see if this brings the compression up - no plans to take it out into the water like this. But I don't really want to do this if it presents any kind of danger of a short, wires overheating, or whatever.
