[Rhodes22-list] Question for Mary Lou

[Mary Lou Troy]

Joe,
The Yamaha was model T8ELH. The first dealer that we went to said 
there wouldn't be any available until Dec. He tried to sell us a 
couple of engines he did have in stock and misled us a bit about what 
we would have to do to put remote controls on that model (said we 
would have to buy a Yamaha controller). Fortunately we found another 
dealer that had them in stock and they said they thought they could 
reuse the Honda controller. They were not particularly familiar with 
putting the controlls on  that engine but they took the time to 
figure out what they needed to do.

If I have this correctly they had to replace the existing gear shift 
handle with one that would accept the cable connection. There is a 
bracket that they attached to the motor to align the cables correctly 
and hold them in place. The rest of the parts were a couple of bolts, 
a washer, a spring pin (don't know what that was for) and a cable 
clamp. They were able to reuse our cables and and controller which 
saved a fair amount of money. Because our controller didn't have a 
start mechanism, the start button is still on the motor. So is the 
kill switch but the controller has provision for that and Fred thinks 
he can rig that up.

Mary Lou


At 01:57 PM 11/18/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Mary Lou,
>Okay, you've raised another question.  I'm still shopping for an
>outboard and I thought I'd have to get the remote version
>of the T8 in order to use a remote control.  But are you saying that you
>bought a T8 with a tiller and then your local
>techs were able to adapt that to your old remote controls?  If so, that
>sounds great.  Any details available on the
>kit they used for the adaptation?
>Joe
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