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Frank and Froggy – Thanks for the info! It looks like only 2 or 3 of those parts in the $142.00 #0398032 kit are for the throttle and the rest are for the shift which I don’t need. My motors (I have 5 well-used 15s from a failed resort) are not electric start like the one in Froggy’s photos, so I’ll have to look and see if the recoil starter is in the way.
This design, along with the gearshift hookup, looks like it was added on by Rube Goldberg after the motor was originally designed without remote controls in mind! Kind of like my older 9.5 Johnson with the somewhat rare aftermarket remote adapter kit.
On my two 1991’s, I have mounted in that throttle access hole, an aftermarket lanyard/kill switch after the ones halfway up the tiller got intermittent cutting the motor out – no way was I going to pay over $100.00 for that replacement switch assembly!…..but I don’t really need the lanyard/kill switch, so that can go.
Between Froggy’s photos and the accessory kit parts diagram from Frank, it looks like what I need are parts #9, 10, and 24 in the diagram in the link below ….and parts #9 and 10 are now replaced by part # 0435448 Throttle Connector Assembly (For $14.75, I’ll take a gamble that I can make that work!). Part #24 looks suspiciously like the clip that has been used on the end of the remote throttle cables in the 1950s–1970s, and I have those with the cable end.
I’ll order the #043548 and let you guys know how this comes together. Hopefully it was not designed to just fit electric start models!
Dave