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I've got a 1989 Johnson 70 hp motor I just bought. I got it converted over to a tiller control today. When I hooked up the battery and tried to start it, the starter is dragging bad and will barely turn over the motor. A couple of times it turned over better but way to slow to fire it up. I...
Hello, I hope you can direct me in the right direction with a problem I had yesterday on my Johnson 1977 55 hp Outboard. This is a manual start outboard commercial application outboard also. I recently bought this from a dealer and it's run great the last 8 times I've had it out. Yestersay...
I appreciate the feedback on my last post on getting a starter hooked up to my 1977 Johnson 50 hp engine. It's a rope start currently. I received a starter today with a 9 tooth bendix. The good news...the starter bolted right up. No ISSUES! The bad news..the bendix has 9 teeth, however my...
I have a 50 hp Johnson 1977 model pull rope start. Model# 50 RL77D. The motor runs perfect and I want to convert it froma rope start to electric start. Can I use the fly wheel and attach an electric starter. I don't really care if it charges the battery as I am using a 27 series Optima and it...
I have a 1979 50 Hp Johnson Tiller Outboard motor I recently purchased that is a pull rope start. Can I convert it over to a electric start easily? I was thinking that a starter, selnoid, push button switch ans some 6guage wire(battery-starter-ground + & neg wire and maybe some 14-10 guage...
