Lochawe wrote:
Ian, Thank you very much for taking the time to reply with your
enlightening and detailed answers, I am printing this off as it is very
usefull to me. The gravity feed and things like that are just
somethings I would never have thought about...Dohh

You wrote "I cant help you much but does the missing part mount on the
rod or the
engine?"

I am not sure, the end of the rod can swivel a bit and has a hole in it
around twice the size of this "O" and the outboard has two vertical
holes (about the same size) in the handle but I dont know if that means
anything.

Thank you again.

Dave the novice.

OK, well it sounds like there should be either a loose vertical pin that
drops through the end of the rod into a hole on a fitting on the engine
or the fitting should have a vertical pin permanently attached to the
front of the engine.

As to the battry question, read http://www.batteryfaq.org for the full
explanation or http://www.barden-uk.com/faqs-batteries.html for the
dumbed down quick highlights. Remember Google is your friend, the
search [marine leisure battery faq lead acid] got both these sites on
the first page of results.



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