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I recently bought this motor for my 14 ft jon. I was told it's a 2006. While I'm not positive of that, it looks exactly like the one pictured. Maybe somebody knows?
I've run this motor enough now that I can confirm it runs excellent. Burned through a gallon and a half of fuel. It always starts on one pull, and idles smooth.
The part that broke has me flustered, since it was a 2 mile mission with a 55lb trolling motor on a half-charged battery with a cross wind to get back to my car. Any guesses how long that took? What had happened was when I shut the engine down I left it in gear and just pressed the stop engine button on the end of the tiller handle. This way I can just tilt the motor up as I fish with the trolling motor (has to be in gear to tilt it up). I've done this before (I think). Don't know if shutting it down in gear caused this problem or not. I went to start the engine again, lowered it down, and went to twist the handle to put it in neutral. When I twisted the handle there was zero resistance. The handle just spun freely. I could not shift into neutral. Even though I could remove the cover and operate the throttle by hand, that did me no good since I couldn't start the engine as it was in gear. I fiddled with the handle, pushing in, pulling out, slowly turning, pinching it tight and turning, all trying to "hook up" with the control mechanism. Nothing worked. What has happened to my tiller handle?
I've run this motor enough now that I can confirm it runs excellent. Burned through a gallon and a half of fuel. It always starts on one pull, and idles smooth.
The part that broke has me flustered, since it was a 2 mile mission with a 55lb trolling motor on a half-charged battery with a cross wind to get back to my car. Any guesses how long that took? What had happened was when I shut the engine down I left it in gear and just pressed the stop engine button on the end of the tiller handle. This way I can just tilt the motor up as I fish with the trolling motor (has to be in gear to tilt it up). I've done this before (I think). Don't know if shutting it down in gear caused this problem or not. I went to start the engine again, lowered it down, and went to twist the handle to put it in neutral. When I twisted the handle there was zero resistance. The handle just spun freely. I could not shift into neutral. Even though I could remove the cover and operate the throttle by hand, that did me no good since I couldn't start the engine as it was in gear. I fiddled with the handle, pushing in, pulling out, slowly turning, pinching it tight and turning, all trying to "hook up" with the control mechanism. Nothing worked. What has happened to my tiller handle?