Re: 1959 Evinrude 18hp Electric Start

[h20lew]

I’d agree unless you can find the original female connector (and that’s hard to do), the better and cheaper bet is to rewire it and use a modern connector. For the motors that didn’t have the electric start as original – there is a kill switch where the wiring harness connector goes. If you are running it as a tiller setup, that having the kill switch on the motor might be better anyway. I added a starter to my 63′ fastwin and drilled hole in the lower cowling to route the wires out and that left me with the original kill switch.