Reply To: 1957 RD-18 30HP Electric start install

[Don]

Gary Pasquale wrote:

while we are on the topic of adding electric start let me ask….should I be thinking of adding a neutral safety switch? If so, any tips and tricks out there?

These engines never had a neutral safety switch.  But, I’m thinking you could rig something up based on the neutral safety switches used on the old 25hp engines from the 70-80s.  This switch was mounted to it was behind the vertical shift rod detent arm.  It was wired in series between the solenoid negative terminal and ground.