I have a 1968 Johnson 40 HP outboard. I have no throttle/shift cables nor control box. Looking online I cannot find them for less than 100 bucks or so if not way more, even for used old half working ones on OKorder. There has got to be a company that make these for a reasonable price, it is only a couple of levers and wires running to the back of my boat and onto the trhottle mount and gear shift handleseems like a pretty simple device.Any help is greatly appreciated. Looking to spend around 50 bucks
I remember the older harness plugs being red and the newer ones black.The harness will plug in but some of the pins don't match,most importantly the kill circuit.Got a nasty shock from the control box and the engine wouldn't shut down.This was a re-power and the customer didn't want to buy a new harness/control box so I jumpered around the plug on the pins that didn't match with butt connectors and heat shrink.Not the best solution but it worked.
You may well get a control box for fifty bucks. Then you may well need to fit new shift cables as the old ones are seized. Then you may well have paid far more than 100 bucks for a generic or otherwise control box. Of course you might be lucky, and after a lot of looking and a bit of luck, you just could find what you want, that works, and at less than half the normal wrecking value. I would expect a cheap cable could cost more than 50 dollars, in fact 80 might be a better number - for a quality Morse cable. Good luck in your search.
This is a bit more complex than your question suggest. The cables themselves are a maintenance item that must be replaced over time. They would be more than your budget amount. Then the attachments and brackets you need to make use of such a control box could well cost over $50.
