Kmills1389
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Hello all, I've put a lot of work into my 73 johnson 65 hp (65ESL73R) and it runs great, I won't go into all of the things I've done so far or the work I'm about to put into it but I've reached the point of "optional" or quality of life fixes. I'd like to put in a tell-tale or pee hole (whatever you want to call it) I've watched a bunch of YouTube videos and read a bunch of forums for suggestions of placement on similar motors but none that exactly match my motor. The closest I could find to my specific motor head was in this article https://forums.iboats.com/threads/1972-johnson-65hp-tell-tale-installation.283057/ (sorry if the link is in the wrong format). My concerns are two fold, first, as stated in that article the cylinder and crank case assembly is extremely difficult to access to drill into and install the fitting necessary (and I'm not super comfortable drilling into the cylinder jacket), and second, there seemed the be concern that he placed it in the cylinder head cover with no real explanation for why the major concern. The forum is not letting me attach a picture from my phone currently but the location in that post is my number 1 spot (just more directly centered as to be directly on top). I've also heard that the exhaust water cover is an option. Any advice would be appreciated.