Re: Kill switch wiring on my Johnson 100hp
I had pulled all the wires out of a boat I'm restoring and whoever required it in the past did it unprofessionally and made it a rats nest. Now after I pulled all the wires out I had not messed with the ignition or kill switch at all. Those were in place and capable of being turned over. When I had gone and pulled off the lanyard kill switch it came right out not being connected to anything. Assuming I had pulled it apart from wherever it was connected. Now I looked it up but I redid the ignition on it and never connected the kill switch directly to the ignition. Any ideas where it could have been connected to? Help out a fellow boater!!
Not absolutely understand what you're trying to say, I think you are asking about how to connect up your kill switch that you somehow disconnected during removing the entire rat's nest wire in your boat. Kill switches usually are connected to the ignition circuit and when enabled (with the actual kill switch key installed) the motor will crank and run without problem. And when the kill switch is pulled out then the switch shorts the points or ignition pack to disable the engine. On a points type engine that would be shorting the points together. Not sure about a CDI or electronic ignition pack. They probably have a wire coming out that would get grounds... So in order to reattach your kill switch back up and working correctly you have to see if there are wires coming from the motor to support that kill switch shorting capability. If it had being working previously before you removed all the wiring, then there should be wires to reattach the kill switch back up (if you included them in with your new wiring harness). On some outboards they use wires colored black and black with yellow stripes wires for that. On mine, being an old 1976 model Johnson, it uses purple and purple with white stripped wires. To see how that would actual be wired on your engine, I?d get a GOOD shop manual to see the exact wiring schematic diagram and do it right. If you have and know how to use a DVM, you could ohm out the wires to acheive that. The fact that you want to fix such a wiring mess (nightmare) is encouraging though...
