For your safety and for the safety of your loved ones along with innocent
bystanders, buy the OEM solenoid from a Johnson-Evinrude dealer. Your
starter solenoid is mounted in an environment with gas fumes around it, and
the factory unit is designed for marine use and for containing any spark to
avoid "blowing up" the motor should the gasoline fumes reach a critical
concentration.

Automotive or "universal" solenoids may look similar but are not wired the
same internally as yours, besides being unsafe for marine applications.

Bill Grannis
service manager

Well I get the "money down the drain award." I ripped out the POWER
TRIM solenoid located under the transom inside electrical box, (not the
starter relay/solenoid) broke off the back of the Trim solenoid as in
thinking this was the STARTER solenoid to fix.

Now I'm picking up now two new solenoids to fix this cold hard start
issue. I now understand that the 'starter solenoid' is mounted next to
the starter motor on the motor. Thank Bill very good advice. Taking out
the Trim solenoid I did touch something to ground and there was a huge
blue spark - no fumes or fire but could've been serious if there were
fumes or gas floatin around in the back under the transom.