Re: 1959 Evinrude 18hp Electric Start

[shane-r13]

quote Fisherman6:

I made a self contained battery-solenoid starting box using a Li-ion motorcycle battery, a marine tilt-trim solenoid, and a starter button inside a small plastic tackle box. I had to get creative with mounting things in place and making right terminal posts but it works. With that you can remove the factory harness from under the cowl and replace with a pair of battery cables to the starter leading out the hole where the plug was. No need to hook up the choke solenoid on a tiller motor. If you wanted to add a kill button or even a lanyard safety switch that could be done too. With the start box you don’t have to carry anything more than you would with any other electric start option. The Li-ion battery only weighs a couple pounds and will start a Big Twin without hesitation. It cranks an 18 over like nothing. That may be a worthy consideration. I have a Golden Jubilee Fastwin and a 62 Johnson FD in electric start and luckily have the correct harness. If I didn’t, this is how I would get around it. My 0.02.
-Ben

Thanks Ben. So you happen to have photos of your design? As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe i can replicate it in some ways.

Thanks,
Shane