breeze
Cadet
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- Jun 9, 2007
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I just picked up my first boat, 1950 14ft Alumacraft with an RDE17 25HP motor.
Steering cables and shifter linkage are hooked up, but the guy I purchased from was in process of restoring the boat and didn't finishing putting all of it back together. What I have: from the motor I have 2 large pos. and neg. cables. the negative is grounded to the motor case, the positive goes to the starter. Also, there is one thin wire(maybe 16ga.) with a ring terminal on it exiting the motor. Internally, this wire comes off a sort of round thing, near the top of the motor, behind the carb. and muffler. I need to know what this wire does. Does it act as a kill switch when grounded, or is it used to charge the battery? If it is not a kill switch, what is used to turn the motor off?
The starting solonoid is remotely mounted on the transom shelf. Would I be correct to assume the large negative goes to the battery, and the positive to the solonoid? There is a key switch on the side console.
There is another round part (looks like a hazard flasher relay in your car) at the bottom of the motor just behind the carb. It looks like it has a lug for a wire. lug appears to be copper with a screw hole in it. but there is nothing attached to it. Do I need to hook this up to anything? I'm ruling out electric choke, as the motor has a manual choke pull.
I'm really excited about getting this motor going! The lower end lube came out clean today, compression seems tight when i pull the starting cord and it spins smoothly. It is VERY clean inside.
Thanks for any input you may have, I know I ask a lot of questions:redface:
Steering cables and shifter linkage are hooked up, but the guy I purchased from was in process of restoring the boat and didn't finishing putting all of it back together. What I have: from the motor I have 2 large pos. and neg. cables. the negative is grounded to the motor case, the positive goes to the starter. Also, there is one thin wire(maybe 16ga.) with a ring terminal on it exiting the motor. Internally, this wire comes off a sort of round thing, near the top of the motor, behind the carb. and muffler. I need to know what this wire does. Does it act as a kill switch when grounded, or is it used to charge the battery? If it is not a kill switch, what is used to turn the motor off?
The starting solonoid is remotely mounted on the transom shelf. Would I be correct to assume the large negative goes to the battery, and the positive to the solonoid? There is a key switch on the side console.
There is another round part (looks like a hazard flasher relay in your car) at the bottom of the motor just behind the carb. It looks like it has a lug for a wire. lug appears to be copper with a screw hole in it. but there is nothing attached to it. Do I need to hook this up to anything? I'm ruling out electric choke, as the motor has a manual choke pull.
I'm really excited about getting this motor going! The lower end lube came out clean today, compression seems tight when i pull the starting cord and it spins smoothly. It is VERY clean inside.
Thanks for any input you may have, I know I ask a lot of questions:redface:
do you have it in a larger format? 216x280 is barely readable to me. I'll pm you my email as well. That'd be great!