How to hot wire my inboard boat.?

Question

I have a 87 Bayliner Capri, with an inboard 5.0. I llost both keys so i broke open the key switch thing. Theres a purple a yellow and a red. how do i hot wire this thing?

Answer 1

Regrettably you should have ask before you broke it.  Cole-Hershey made the switches used on that year boat.   there were only 3 or 4 key numbers  My memory is 313, 315, 325, and 888.  But I could be wrong.  What now, buy a new switch.

Answer 2

I only know how to 'jump' the starter....

turn the battery power on.

take a somewhat long screwdriver.

find the starter - and find the + and - terminals.

bridge those with the screwdriver.

if it just turns over and doesn't start - the key switch needs to be turned to "on".

Answer 3

Get a jumper wire and go from purple to red and connect them. Then take another wire or paper clip and touch red to yellow(it should have a red stripe on the yellow wire). Thats your crank wire. once started remove off yellow and there ya go

Answer 4

The easy est fix would be to see if you could get a new ignition switch.

Answer 5

You don't get the correct key switch or you could burn up the electrical on the engine> There only $20+