How to ID a 225 timer base?

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Mile9c1

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On a Johnson 225 is there a way to tell if I have a 1986-1987 timer base vs. a 1988+ timer base?
 
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Re: How to ID a 225 timer base?

The motor is a "frankeinsten" model, it has parts from all different years.
 
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Re: How to ID a 225 timer base?

Is There any #'s stamped on your timer base?
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Re: How to ID a 225 timer base?

Mile9c1 said:
On a Johnson 225 is there a way to tell if I have a 1986-1987 timer base vs. a 1988+ timer base?
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If I remember correctly, the '86-87 motors did not have QuickStart features so the timer base for them would only have 7 wires total on the connectors.

The '88 and later models with QuickStart would have 8 or 9 wires.
 
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Re: How to ID a 225 timer base?

The funny thing is we were running a 1987 style flywheel with the newer style timer base... it didn't start very well but it ran okay for several years at least (until the engine blew up).
 
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Re: How to ID a 225 timer base?

The engine blew up because you were running the motor with the timing too advanced you burnt the tops of your pistons
 
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