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I purchased a 1993 Dynasty Elanti 171 with the Yamaha 3.0 L4 stern drive engine. Boat has been awesome up until a week ago. Boat died on us out in the river. After being towed back and neighbor look over the boat, he determined the kill switch was bad. You can’t buy an OEM ignition switch with kill switch anymore. So I purchased a 2 wire aftermarket kill switch. Problem is the boat still won’t start. It’s got fire, fuel and air but will not start. Where can I find an accurate wiring diagram for this boat (it’s all original)? Or where can I ground too? The black/yellow wire is my kill switch , correct? Thanks for any help or advice. New to owning a boat and know absolutely nothing about them
 
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You can't buy much of anything for a Yamaha out drive.

The motor wiring is super simple and you can follow the ABYC wiring colors

Kill switches in I/Os simply break the purple wire(ignition) to kill. Kill switches on magneto ignition 2-strokes ground the coils to kill

Did you service the raw water pump? Check alignment? Do all the maintenance?
 
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Scott Danforth said:
You can't buy much of anything for a Yamaha out drive.

The motor wiring is super simple and you can follow the ABYC wiring colors

Kill switches in I/Os simply break the purple wire(ignition) to kill. Kill switches on magneto ignition 2-strokes ground the coils to kill

Did you service the raw water pump? Check alignment? Do all the maintenance?
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The wire that my neighbor “jumped “ to get the boat to fire was a black/yellow wire.
 

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Neighbor put a jumper wire to the black/yellow and boat fired up. But now with a new kill switch, it will not fire up
 

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mnalley4 said:
The wire that my neighbor “jumped “ to get the boat to fire was a black/yellow wire.
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Go a few inches past the splice on the kill switch and you would find purple wires

The picture you are showing is for a 2-stroke outboard, not a 3.0 I/O
 
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This is my ignition switch/kill switch. Same wires as the diagram. I can’t find an exact wire diagram of my switch. There is no white wire, no black wire. The 2 purple wires are attached to a red wire that goes to accessories.
 

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mnalley4 said:
This is my ignition switch/kill switch. Same wires as the diagram. I can’t find an exact wire diagram of my switch. There is no white wire, no black wire. The 2 purple wires are attached to a red wire that goes to accessories.
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If you plan on keeping this boat, I would beg, borrow, hunt, search, scour until you find a factory service manual for it. I have found most of mine off ebay, and garage sales, but they are necessary for maintenance specs. Good luck.
 
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