[smokeonthewater]

Originally Posted by spareparts

Many outboards (with magneto ignitions) are like a lawn mower, they create their own spark, when you turn the key off, you short out the ignition, by eliminating the harness, you are taking part of the stop circuit out of the ignition, eliminating the key switch, stop switch, grounded harness, etc...

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fixed it.... just for the benefit of future searchers