The leads are right beside the brush holders, so no mixup there. But what I did do wrong is when reinstalling the end plate that holds the brushes, i didn't notice a tiny alignment tab and put it on about 1/8" out of alignment. Apparently that was enough to make it run backwards! I don't...
Hi all, so my mercury 25 outboard starter was starting to give it up. I took it apart, and yup, the brushes were badly worn. Well, I have several generic brushes kicking around, so I simply swapped them out. Very simple operation. And yet after assembling the damn thing, it now runs backwards...