Mercury 20hp 1971 pull start, shift adapter, wire help
I Have a 200 (20hp) mercury, serial number 3142462.
The rope broke on the pull start (the spring didn't bend or deform). Picked up a new rope put everything back together. Tested it out a few times in the driveway (in a can full of water) worked perfect. Trailered the boat to the lake, used pull start no problems. Took a quick test drive around the lake ( about 5 mins). Came back to the dock turned off the engine, few mins later tried to pull start and wasnt engaging. Took it apart and back together and i can't get the tabs to engage unless i jerk the rope fast. I have one little spring in there to pull the tabs out.
My next issue is... I'm converting my tiller to a r/c. I have a control box off a 1968 mercury with the cables and the wires (wires are cut before the battery). My throttle cable attached with out a problem. But my shift cable is not comming together as easy as i had wished. I found a mercury remote control attaching kit (part# 826633a 1). But its about $150.00, and i think i only need the part that adapts the shift cable to the shifter. Can i just buy that part? Do i need all the parts in the attaching kit? Will that kit even work for me or will i just be wasting my money?
Finally how should i wire the two (mercontrol and mercury outboard) together. I have 6 pins comming out of the outboard (i know the two big ones are for pos and neg comming from the battery) but i don't about the other pins. I have 4 wires comming from the Mercontrol (colors are faded) Blue, orange, black, white. I think these are the colors of the wires from the outboard (very weathered and dirty) black, brown(probally red), Yellow, Tan(probally white), then theres a big red and a big black ( i know what these are).
Any help you could give would be great.
Kenters
I Have a 200 (20hp) mercury, serial number 3142462.
The rope broke on the pull start (the spring didn't bend or deform). Picked up a new rope put everything back together. Tested it out a few times in the driveway (in a can full of water) worked perfect. Trailered the boat to the lake, used pull start no problems. Took a quick test drive around the lake ( about 5 mins). Came back to the dock turned off the engine, few mins later tried to pull start and wasnt engaging. Took it apart and back together and i can't get the tabs to engage unless i jerk the rope fast. I have one little spring in there to pull the tabs out.
My next issue is... I'm converting my tiller to a r/c. I have a control box off a 1968 mercury with the cables and the wires (wires are cut before the battery). My throttle cable attached with out a problem. But my shift cable is not comming together as easy as i had wished. I found a mercury remote control attaching kit (part# 826633a 1). But its about $150.00, and i think i only need the part that adapts the shift cable to the shifter. Can i just buy that part? Do i need all the parts in the attaching kit? Will that kit even work for me or will i just be wasting my money?
Finally how should i wire the two (mercontrol and mercury outboard) together. I have 6 pins comming out of the outboard (i know the two big ones are for pos and neg comming from the battery) but i don't about the other pins. I have 4 wires comming from the Mercontrol (colors are faded) Blue, orange, black, white. I think these are the colors of the wires from the outboard (very weathered and dirty) black, brown(probally red), Yellow, Tan(probally white), then theres a big red and a big black ( i know what these are).
Any help you could give would be great.
Kenters
