spitfireap
Cadet
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- Oct 22, 2016
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I own a '78 115 Tower of Power that's my first boat engine on my first boat (owned about 3 months). I've been doing a decent amount of reading to learn how to care for this thing. I was in the process of winterizing it (pretty easy) when i noticed that some of the wiring had missing/deteriorated insulation and the wiring was corroding. I don't know how I didn't notice until now as it's so obvious. The boat's been on the water about half a dozen times this summer with no issues other than the typical difficulties with cold starting (just figured out how to overcome that today - practically flood it with the primer bulb, choke for 10 seconds, and POW...started in 2 seconds).
My question is where the best place to get a replacement wire harness to fix this mess during the winter? Also, a wire leading up towards the flywheel is also corroded. Will I have to remove the flywheel to replace that? I'm still figuring all the parts in this engine, so I'm not sure what that wire is for (pic#2). (Pics are at the link below to my Onedrive folder - I couldn't upload them here for some reason). Thanks in advance for the help.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Av8_LOjr0nXx8njhuglw1RLuBOYe
My question is where the best place to get a replacement wire harness to fix this mess during the winter? Also, a wire leading up towards the flywheel is also corroded. Will I have to remove the flywheel to replace that? I'm still figuring all the parts in this engine, so I'm not sure what that wire is for (pic#2). (Pics are at the link below to my Onedrive folder - I couldn't upload them here for some reason). Thanks in advance for the help.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Av8_LOjr0nXx8njhuglw1RLuBOYe