[Rhodes22-list] Question for Mary Lou

[bill davidge]

Mary Lou what do you do when you take your engine off ? How much work is to
disconnect the controls from the engine?
  Bill D  .       Temperance Mi.

On Nov 18, 2007 3:27 PM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:

> Joe,
> The Yamaha was model T8ELH. The first dealer that we went to said
> there wouldn't be any available until Dec. He tried to sell us a
> couple of engines he did have in stock and misled us a bit about what
> we would have to do to put remote controls on that model (said we
> would have to buy a Yamaha controller). Fortunately we found another
> dealer that had them in stock and they said they thought they could
> reuse the Honda controller. They were not particularly familiar with
> putting the controlls on  that engine but they took the time to
> figure out what they needed to do.
>
> If I have this correctly they had to replace the existing gear shift
> handle with one that would accept the cable connection. There is a
> bracket that they attached to the motor to align the cables correctly
> and hold them in place. The rest of the parts were a couple of bolts,
> a washer, a spring pin (don't know what that was for) and a cable
> clamp. They were able to reuse our cables and and controller which
> saved a fair amount of money. Because our controller didn't have a
> start mechanism, the start button is still on the motor. So is the
> kill switch but the controller has provision for that and Fred thinks
> he can rig that up.
>
> Mary Lou
>
>
> At 01:57 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi Mary Lou,
> >Okay, you've raised another question.  I'm still shopping for an
> >outboard and I thought I'd have to get the remote version
> >of the T8 in order to use a remote control.  But are you saying that you
> >bought a T8 with a tiller and then your local
> >techs were able to adapt that to your old remote controls?  If so, that
> >sounds great.  Any details available on the
> >kit they used for the adaptation?
> >Joe
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