Reply To: 1966 Lark 8 Electric Shift Problem

[amuller]

Very confusing to have two or more overlapping threads. I wrote a comment but it did not appear either here or there, but I was able to find it under my profile:

You likely know this already, but when shopping for control boxes, remember that the Electramatic spring-clutch setup (which you have) uses an entirely different control logic than the Hydro-lectric motors and they don’t interchange.

Ginning up a homebrew switch for either type is easy enough, the problem is in not having an interlock to prevent shifting at speed.

You likely also know that the Johnson control boxes are different than the Evinrudes. Either will work on either motor–but in my experience the sliding interlock piece on the Evinrude push-button boxes is very often missing or broken. I like the Johnson design much better but the shift switches can go bad and are scarce/expensive, as people are noting.