Pushing the tiller handle STOP the engine

[coteno]

I just bought an old Johnson 6hp 1977.
I try to understand basic mecanic.
Can somewone explain to me how by ''pushing the tiller handle'' it STOP the engine. I see no wire aroud the tiller handle so it is mysterious to me.

Thank you for your advice

Normand from Québec

 

[racerone]

Wrong information for your 77 model.-----Just turn the throttle to slowest position and pull choke lever.

 

[timguy]

Yes, the push button stop came later on. It also incorporated an idle adjustment too......and a tether switch in case the operator should fall from the boat.....(few use the tether line)....although it may have saved a resort owner's Dad who drowned near our Ontario camp on Lower Manitou Lake. They never found his body.....160' deep in there.......boat had run itself to shore on the rocks.

 

[racerone]

The 78 models show a stop button that was fitted on the lower cowling.-----Factory part is not cheap but easy to fit any kind of switch.

 

[coteno]

Thank.
I will first start the engine when meteo favorable.
No ownwer manual so I do my best