do they make an electric starter kit for a 1979 Johnson 9.9 outboard motor?
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I have a 1979 Johnson outboard 9.9 motor and would like to put an Electric starter on it, can you do such a thing and if where to I purchase the starter and how do I put it on.
Perhaps the better question would be, can I get an electric start kit, for a 9.9 motor……. I haven't seen one in years….. this is something that would be very rare, in that only a small percentage of these motors were equipped with these kits. If, a motor has a bad powerhead, you might be able to get it, and swap out the electrical parts and brackets…but there won't be any kits. There is a coil/rectifier under the flywheel…..that acts as an alternator, on the electric start models, that was part of the kit. i'm not sure if the flywheel was different, but I think it was. All the 9.9 and 15 HP were the same and use the same starter. You need the bracket and the starter motor, which I think will be hard to find. Good luck.
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I've seen one in thirty years. The charge system involved an alternator coil (not fitted as standard), a bit of wiring and a regulator/rectifier to give a max charge rate of 5 amps at 5000 rpm. The starter motor was very straight forward (and pretty tiny) and the key start on the one I saw was on the remote throttle/gear system. It was a 9.9 fitted in a well on a 25' trailer sailor. At the time it was pretty exxy $$ it was over 20 years ago.
I think you will find the starter but it is not a five minute thing to swap out the charge system if you haven't got it already. It's not impossible at all but not simple either.
A total loss battery system is quite possible but a bit tedious and inevitably will be flat when you need it – might come down to what you can find on ebay or an OMC forum somewhere.
Good luck.
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Perhaps the better question would be, can I get an electric start kit, for a 9.9 motor……. I haven't seen one in years….. this is something that would be very rare, in that only a small percentage of these motors were equipped with these kits. If, a motor has a bad powerhead, you might be able to get it, and swap out the electrical parts and brackets…but there won't be any kits. There is a coil/rectifier under the flywheel…..that acts as an alternator, on the electric start models, that was part of the kit. i'm not sure if the flywheel was different, but I think it was. All the 9.9 and 15 HP were the same and use the same starter. You need the bracket and the starter motor, which I think will be hard to find. Good luck.
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