Neutral Safety Switch

[Woody]

I struck rocks with my boat and the strbd engine died instantly, in gear. Trying to restart there is no power to starter solenoid. I see nothing on the transmission except the shift solenoids and they will click when shift lever is moved. I haven't looked under the shift levers yet. I'm wondering where the neutral safety switch is. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[MancaveII]

If you have the helm controls to the left for transmission (no throttles, those should be to the right), the safety switches are located under the chrome cover and/or accessible from the bottom (yellow wires with red tracer). Going off memory, hopefully someone else can chime in.

 

[sdleo26]

You might even have two safety switches; ones on the helm that Mancavell describes as well as on your transmission. I have a Hurth ZF drive and they are on the front of the transmission as well as at the helm.

 

[Woody]

Thanks guys, I'm heading to the boat tonite. Hope to get everything figured out over the weekend.

 

[Woody]

Update: Was at the boat last weekend. Found the neutral safety's under the shift levers but they weren't the problem. I called around until I found a skinny mechanic that could crawl in along the portside of port engine. The problem was a simple relay upstream of the starter solenoid. Went to a place that sold snowplow parts and got one.