Yamaha 25D Owner's Manual

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Trouble Recovery52your arm or leg while operating. Do not attach the lanyard to clothingthat could tear loose. Do not route thecord where it could become entangled,preventing it from functioning. Avoid accidentally pulling the lanyardduring normal operation. Loss of en-gine power means the loss of moststeering control. Also, without enginepower, the boat could slow rapidly. Thiscould cause people and objects in theboat to be thrown forward. Be sure no one is standing behind youwhen pulling the starter rope. It couldwhip behind you and injure someone. An unguarded, rotating flywheel is verydangerous. Keep loose clothing andother objects away when starting theengine. Use the emergency starter ropeonly as instructed. Do not touch the fly-wheel or other moving parts when theengine is running. Do not install thestarter mechanism or top cowling afterthe engine is running. Do not touch the ignition coil, sparkplug wire, spark plug cap, or other elec-trical components when starting or op-erating the motor. You could get anelectrical shock.EMU29561Emergency starting engine1. Remove the top cowling.2. Remove the start-in-gear protection ca-ble from the starter, if equipped.3. Remove the starter/flywheel cover afterremoving the bolt(s).4. Prepare the engine for starting. For fur-ther information, see page 23. Be surethe engine is in neutral and that the en-gine stop switch lanyard lock plate is at-tached to the engine stop switch. Themain switch must be “ ” (on), ifequipped.1. Start-in-gear protection cableZMU037401ZMU03741ZMU03742