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    Tohatsu 9.8 choke solenoid

    This was solved. The choke solenoid is fine. I read in the service manual it doesn't have to move very much to provide the necessary choke. The problem was convoluted. I had cleaned the carb and installed a carb rebuild kit over the winter. (Why? I couldn't get it to start at the end of...
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    Tohatsu 9.8 Impeller replacement

    I installed the water pump kit and the new water tube gasket and the engine is pumping water again. This part of the saga is closed. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
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    Tohatsu 9.8 Impeller replacement

    Nissan 9.8A2 circa 2004 I posted a few weeks ago about having trouble turning off my engine. Long story short, the stop switch got bypassed when wires to the remote control unit were disturbed and reconnected improperly. I fixed that with a wire diagram and a continuity meter. The engine...
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    Tohatsu 9.8 choke solenoid

    My Tohatsu 9.8 has not been starting well, if it starts at all. It has a remote control in which pushing the key in activates the choke. Looking at the engine, the choke solenoid plunger moves very little (a quarter inch) when I push in the key. After various other steps in the diagnostic...
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