Hi, I am the new guy. I have a 97 60hp mercury on a pontoon. A little history now, It belongs to my father and he got it a few years ago, when he got it the fellow who had it before him had disconnected the warning module. I hooked it back up and it seemed to do fine. It gives one loud beeeeep when you turn the ignition on. Every since it has been hooked back up, it sounds like it has a cricket in the control box, odd clicks and chirps on occasion but not all the time. Basically it sounds like the warning horn is trying to sound but is not getting a complete ground or something. It has sounded a steady continuous beep from time to time but it has alway been when the motor was idling which I think would be normal, usually all that is neccessary to do it to lift the idle lever and run it up to increase water flow and it goes off. last week while fishing the horn just started going nuts, it stayed on after the key was turned on, would go off, come back on with a weaker sound. The motor had not been started to even get hot. Every time it was a continuous beeeeeep. The motor was watering good. THe only thing about this trip is that it was pouring rain and in the process of messing with it I could put my finger on the kill switch and get a mild shock out of it. The engine ran fine and with no problems. My father figured it was a bad ingniton switch so he purchased one for me to install. Now comes the good part. I go down yesterday to fish, start the thing, I get a continuous beep, I wiggle the key and the thing dies. Now I have no fire to the plugs. Needless to say, I did not get to fish. I went ahead and installed the new switch and it is still the same, no fire and the alarm is going off intermitantly when the key is in the on position. I figured it was the kill switch but continuity checks on the connecter plug in the power head shows OK. I did not have any help there so I was not able to do any other switch checks such as turning it to the start position. I have a Clymer shop manual that I have been going by and I have not been able to get back down there to mess with it any. Looking at the schematics it does not appear that the warning module could keep the engine from firing but I dont know. Is there anything "stupidly" obvious that I am missing and where should I go from here. The next step for me is to get it out of the dock and home where I can work on it better. The serial number on this thing is G565701 60hp ELPTO. I know this is a long post but appreciate any input anyone may have on this problem or problems.